Govt creates national facility to support semiconductor design and fabrication

The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has set up a National Chip Design Infrastructure, called ChipIN, within the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).

One of the largest facilities set up by C-DAC so far, the ChipIN centre offers an extensive range of semiconductor design workflows and solutions.

ChipIN will function as a one-stop centre for semiconductor designers nationwide, covering academia and industry alike.

The centralised facility is equipped with the most advanced tools for the entire chip design cycle (including the 5 nm and advanced node).

Set up with support from industry leader Siemens EDA, ChipIN currently supports over 20,000 students across 250 academic institutions across the country.

The list of institutions getting access to EDA Tools is available at https://c2s.gov.in/EDA_Tool_Support.jsp

Under the Chip-to-Start-up (C2S) programme of ChipIN, these academic institutions will get access to EDA tools from Siemens. 

Over the next five years, the C2S programme will be extended to cover 85,000 BTech, MTech and PhD students in the country.

Besides, companies approved under the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme and C2S programme will also get access to Veloce hardware verification solution from Siemens at C-DAC Trivandrum

Siemens’ Veloce Strato hardware has a compute facility featuring 128 CPU cores and a capacity of 640 million gates, which would help chipmakers validate their system on chip (SoC) as also integrated circuit designs. Details on the configuration and working of the hardware can be had at https://vegaprocessors.in/hep.php