ICT Industry
HDL Design House, Serbia
HDL Design House is privately owned company established in 2001, with a focus on being IP core and verification solutions provider for SoC/ASIC projects in chip design industry. The company is involved in making other products (like VHDL VITAL component models) for major SoC/semiconductor companies. HDL Design House has established a reputation as reliable partner providing high-quality products and engineering services, flexible licensing models, and responsive technical support to its customers. Long customer list includes semiconductor companies from Asia, Europe and USA which are major players in mobile phones market, computers and peripherals, telecommunication, medical equipment, and security markets. The customers list includes, but it is not limited to: Intel, AMD, Siemens, NEC, IDT, Siliquent, Spansion, Yogitech, Broadcom, and FMF. The company is located in Belgrade, Serbia and employs more than 50 engineers with 2 design centers in Serbia (Belgrade and Cuprija) and has sales offices in North America and Israel.
HDL Design House mission is to provide its customers with an ongoing stream of leading-edge, design, verification engineering services and products in various fields of SoC/ASIC and FPGA designs. Advanced design and verification methodologies applied by state of the art EDA tools set provide their customers with the best solution for both design and verification. Having excellent IT/Internet connection infrastructure, HDL Design House is capable to work remotely for any customer.
The aim is to provide IP cores and verification products that ease the manufacture of customer's product, and in a way that allows the customers to concentrate at the system level work, knowing that the intricacies of the system parts have been fully engineered to a competent level.
Technology expertise is built around the capability to execute the projects from specification to silicon in ASIC/SoC and/or FPGA and reference board design. The teams have extensive knowledge on Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog, SystemC, e, and C/C++.
To maintain long-term support for its products, HDL DH is an active member of several industry and standards consortia, including OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP), The Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), SPIRIT, the VSI Alliance and Design, and Reuse IP Portal. By aligning with these important organizations, they gain early access to new or updated versions of standards so they can meet time-to-market requirements for their verification products. Also, HDL Design House is a member of the ARM Connected Community, an organization that brings together leading silicon, systems, design support, software and training providers who together provide a complete solution for products based on the ARM Architecture. HDL Design House maintains close partnerships with three key organizations in the EDA industry: Cadence Open Choice, Cadence Verification Alliance, and Mentor Questa Program.
In recognition of the company's accomplishments, HDL Design House was named Exporter of the Year for 2006 by the Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA).
HDL Design House was given ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 27001:2005 certifications in December 2006 and has achieved certifications from Direct Assessment Services (DAS), thereby meeting United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) regulatory requirements. With the ISO 27001:2005 certification, the highest certification standard for information security available, HDL Design House becomes the first company in Serbia to comply with this standard.
Mr. Predrag Marković, President
Company Name | HDL Design House d.o.o. |
Year of Establishment | 2002 |
Home Country | Serbia |
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Office Location | Belgrade (Central Serbia) |
Business Line | SoC (system-on-chip) design and verification |
Božić i Sinovi - Gowigroup
The BIS Gowigroup software development team started in 2000 and has built a growing international client base through its pragmatic development approach and strong customer focus. It has been founded as a joint venture of companies Bozic i Sinovi, from Serbia, and Gowigroup Ltd, from England, whose development team based in Pancevo has been offering their services to the UK market for more than 5 years.
The team is comprised of 32 young (under 30) highly professional and skilled IT experts recruited from the most respected Universities in Serbia, namely: ETF - School of Electrical Engineering and FON - Faculty of Organizational Sciences.
By working closely with their clients and providing thorough business analysis they are ensuring that the project, once delivered, is of high quality and fully meets customer's needs. They are building strong relationships with customers based on trust, shared values, integrity and collaboration. As a result of this approach, as well as the support of the British Embassy in Belgrade, they have developed a partnership with a UK-based company Gowigroup Ltd. and signed a long term annual contract worth £500,000.
As a Microsoft Certified Partner they are developing the projects based on Microsoft platform.
The team has extensive experience in implementing a broad range of solutions across many vertical markets (insurance, real estate, education, PR, HR, IT, and others). They have built a number of long term relationships with foreign partners and are always open to developing new ones.
In order to minimize risk, ensure predictable results and deliver high-quality software on time they apply the Rational Unified Process in their project development practice. By applying this project management approach and through the partnership with Gowigroup, they have won a number of significant customers, such as: AVAYA, Shell UK, Hutchinson 3G, Cunard, and Publicis UK.
"What we found in Serbia is a highly educated and highly motivated workforce with a very strong work ethic. They are always willing to go the extra mile. Our customers like dealing with our Bozic i Sinovi (BIS) offshore team and the openness to input is compatible with our business expectations in the UK. They have consistently delivered high quality products on time and within a budget through a very strong analysis and development process. We can send our people into very complex discussions directly with our customers and allow them to do all necessary specification analysis work. This is a significant advantage over some outsourcing experiences I have had while working in the Far East. The BIS team has not only met but exceeded our standards and we plan to expand our work with them in the future. We are currently working with BIS to introduce new products and services into the Serbian market".
Mr. Mike Smart, MD Gowigroup Ltd
Mr. Jovica Božić, Director
Company Name | Božić i Sinovi d.o.o. |
Year of Establishment | 2000 |
Home Country | Serbia |
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Office Location | Pančevo (Central Serbia) |
Business Line | Software development |
Red Hat
Regional Center for Support, Research and Development (RCSRD) in Vršac
In February 2007, Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has opened the Regional Center for Support, Research and Development (RCSRD) in Vrsac, Serbia in collaboration with IBM and VDEL, a leading IT services distribution company in Eastern Europe. The center will provide support, development and educational services to customers, partners and developers throughout South Eastern Europe.
As part of the Red Hat Premium Support Partner program, the RCSRD will service Red Hat customers in Serbia and throughout the region that includes Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia. RCSRD will be managed by the sole Red Hat Premium Support Partner in the world, VDEL.
The center is a result of a project initiated in 2005 by the University of Belgrade to create an incubator for new technologies. The project was established as part of the development program, created by the Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection in Serbia. The first incubation project was started in February 2006, when IBM, Red Hat and VDEL jointly opened the Linux Innovation and Education Centre at the Faculty of Organizational Science, University of Belgrade. This initial project provided the education, training and certification on Red Hat and IBM technologies that provided the necessary skills for the opening of the RCSRD.
IBM will provide RCSRD with access to its technologies and knowledge-base, enabling the RCSRD to eventually offer support for IBM open source solutions. This will be the result of the next incubation project which the Faculty of Organizational Science is due to start in March 2007, which will also be supported by IBM and Red Hat. This third project will create additional support services for RCSRD that will be offered throughout the region.
Red Hat and IBM will also promote the Secure Government initiative following the announcement that IBM and Red Hat are the sole holders of the security certificate that satisfies Common Criteria 4+ as per US, NATO and Russian authorities.
The RCSRD is also backed by the city of Vrsac, which has provided the necessary infrastructure and facilities. The decision to select Vrsac was based on the city's competitive advantages which include: geographical location, multiethnic and multicultural environment, existing infrastructure, qualified resources, and the growth potential of the Serbian market and the surrounding region. By supporting the opening of the RCRSD, all parties are determined to support Serbia and the wider region in the adoption of Open Source technologies in the broadest manner through the following activities: stimulating the development and implementation of Open Source software in Serbia; stimulating the development of educational programs in scientific and educational institution through latest innovations in IT industry; providing help in bridging the digital gap through the development program of digital literacy in schools and communities with lower income levels.
Company Name | Red Hat Regional Centre for Support, Research and Development |
Year of Establishment | 2007 |
Home Country | USA |
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Office Location | Vršac (Northern Serbia - Vojvodina) |
Business Line | Open source solutions |
