- NEW DELHI — India, which is shifting its stance towards export-led growth in
electronics, is currently working on at least 25 chipsets with indigenous
intellectual property (IP).
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- Union Minister for Railways and Electronics and IT,
Ashwini Vaishnaw, informed via a media interaction that 13 such projects are
currently underway which are led by the Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC), Bengaluru.
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- Owning IP ensures security and transforms us from a
services nation to a product nation, said the minister, adding that the
upcoming semiconductor fabs will manufacture these chips locally.
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- Towards this goal, the government is in the process of
systematic overhaul of semiconductor design approach at more than 300
organisations across the country — including 250 academic institutions and 65
startups.
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- With graded and proactive steps, these steps aim to debut
an era of creative enablement where anyone with innate skills, anywhere in the
country can get the semiconductor chips designed, according to the IT Ministry.
In the process, chip design will be democratised in line with the vision of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi that ‘Design in India is as important as ‘Make in
India’.
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- The ’Chips to Startup’ (C2S) programme aims at addressing
each entity of the electronics value chain via specialised manpower training,
creation of reusable IPs repository, design of application-oriented systems/ASICs/FPGAs
and deployment by academia/R&D organization by way of leveraging the
expertise available at startups/MSMEs.
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- The C2S programme aims to generate 85,000 number of
industry-ready manpower at BTech, M.Tech, and PhD levels specialised in
semiconductor chip design. The programme takes a comprehensive approach by
offering students complete hands-on experience in chip design, fabrication, and
testing.
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