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05/05/22 22:40 PM IST

Chip Designing in India

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  • Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) with its series of graded and proactive steps, is in the process of systematic overhaul of semiconductor design approach at 120 premier academic institutions across the country to debut an era of creative enablement where anyone with innate skills, anywhere in the country can get the semiconductor chips designed.

Special Manpower Development Programme for Chips to System Design
  • Understanding chip design as a strategic necessity, a pilot deployment was successfully tested by MeitY earlier in 2021.
  • A centralized design facility at C-DAC was enabled for remote access by over 50,000 engineering students at 60 academic institutions for designing chips.
  • Leapfrogging, MeitY now intends to make accessible a centralized chip design infrastructure to be made available at India Chip Centre setup at C-DAC, to train 85000+ B.Tech, M.Tech and PhD students at 120 academic institutions across the country in chip design area for next 5 years.
  • At centralized design facility hosted at India Chip Centre (C-DAC), not only the most advanced tools for entire chip design cycle (i.e. Front-end design, Back-end design, PCB design & analysis etc. for Digital, Analog, RF & Mixed Signal designs), going up to 7nm or advanced node but also an arrangement of instructor-led/ online trainings on design flows by industry professionals are being made available for next 5 years.

Benefits 
  • This will strengthen & supplement the Indian talent pool designing the leading-edge chips for semiconductor giants with complete ownership of some of these chips in the country. 
Source-PIB

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