Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav handed over the approval letter for implementation of the project proposal, titled ‘Energy Efficient Mesh Architecture Based Indigenous Neuromorphic Processors for Extreme Edge IoT Applications’ to the institute authorities during his visit to IIT Bhubaneswar on Sunday. .
Apart from approving the five-year project, he announced the setting up of a center called Chips to Startup (C2S) at IIT Bhubaneswar. Official sources said that this IIT has become the 31st institute in the country to receive this honor for chip designing and manufacturing.
“The semiconductor journey to Bhubaneswar begins. Today IIT Bhubaneswar has joined PM Narendra Modi’s semiconductor mission,” the Union minister said here on Sunday.
The C2S program aims to train 85,000 high-quality and qualified engineers in the field of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) and Embedded Systems Design. It will also help develop working prototypes of 175 application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), 20 systems on chips (SoCs) and IP core repositories over a period of five years.
Official sources at the national institute said the chips are widely used in mobiles, computers, gaming consoles, cars, medical devices and other electronics devices. It has Integrated Circuits (ICs). Semiconductor materials are used to make chips. “Under this programme, we will design the chips. If we get facilities and favorable conditions here, we can even build it in future,” said a professor at the institute.
He said that the C2S program will address issues related to quality manpower training, research and development, hardware IP design, system design, application-oriented research and development and prototype design.
A few months ago, this national institute designed and developed low-power semiconductor chips that can be used in audio applications of electronic devices.