Centre Announces Startups Selected Under DLI Scheme For Chip Design Innovation

MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday announced the first set of startups selected under the Semicon India Future Design DLI scheme. 

Centre has selected Vervesemi Microelectronics Pvt. Ltd, Fermionic Design Pvt. Ltd. and DV2JS Innovation Ltd for the scheme. 

The startups selected under DLI scheme will be working on implementing innovative silicon designs; which will find space in key growth areas- automotive, mobility and computing areas.

The announcement was made by Chandrasekhar during the 2nd Semicon India FutureDESIGN Roadshow at IISc in Bengaluru.

At the event, the CEOs of these startups had interactions with several industry leaders including Dr Sailesh Chittipeddi, President, GM and Board member Renesas Electronics and Anand Ramamoorthy, MD, Micron Technology India.

Outlining some of the initiatives that the Centre has taken to support the semiconductor innovation ecosystem in India, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the India Semiconductor Research Centre (ISRC) which will be a private, industry led research centre will soon be launched and the Semiconductor Laboratory is being modernised and pivoted into research fab and will be co-located with the ISRC.

In addition, the Government plans to introduce an educational curriculum as part of the Future Skills programme, he said. “It has been developed in collaboration with industry experts and academics. A large number of colleges will have new degrees, new electives, and new certification programs in VLSI. We are actively working with fab companies to create on the job training type of internships for students in the semiconductor space,” Chandrasekhar added.

The Minister also announced the launch of the ChipIN Centre at C-DAC India, Bangalore which will act as one stop centre to provide Semiconductor Design Tools, Fab access, Virtual Prototyping Hw Lab access to Fabless Chip Designers of the country. He also said that India AI Datasets program is going to be launched soon. It will be the world’s largest datasets program which will in turn catalyse the Intelligent compute, AI compute, device and the system design ecosystem, he added.