Govt To Launch Chip Design Centre To Encourage Indian Semiconductor Design Ecosystem

During the 2nd Semicon India Future Design Roadshow in Bengaluru, MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar will inaugurate the ChipIN Centre at C-DAC, Bangalore and dedicate its services to semiconductor design community of the country. 

According to the Indian Government, the ChipIN Centre is one of the biggest of existing facilities, offering plethora of design flows, aims to bring the chip design infrastructure at door-steps of entire semiconductor design community in the country. 

This chip design centre will apparently host the “most advanced tools for entire chip design cycle” including Front-end design, Back-end design, PCB design & analysis etc. for Digital, Analog, RF & Mixed Signal designs. 

The centralised design facility will explore semiconductor design going up to 5nm or advanced node but also provide aggregate services for fabrication of design at SCL foundry and overseas foundries and packaging. “It will also enable an arrangement of instructor-led/ online trainings on design flows by industry professionals,” mentioned the Government in a press note.

The government expects the chip design centre to act as a catalyst which encourage academic startups across the country and help cross the initial entry barriers and pave the way for entrepreneurship/ startup-led design and innovations ecosystem in the country for making indigenous IP Cores, Chips, System on Chip (SoCs), Systems for different application areas like 5G/ IoT, AI/ ML, Automotive & Mobility sector etc. in India, for the World.

“We intend to take the Semicon India program to every student, every college and make as many young Indians excited by and participate in the Semicon India journey,” said MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar, ahead of kicking off 2nd Semicon India Future Design Roadshow on Thursday.