Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. File | Photo credit: B. Velankanni Raj
The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the Indian Space Research Organization have developed a chip of indigenous aerospace semiconductors based in Shakti.
The director of Iit Madras, V. Kamakoti, directed the Shakti microprocessor project at the Prathap Subrahmanyam center for digital intelligence and safe hardware architecture (PSCDISHA) in the Department of Engineering and Engineering of the Institute.
The Shakti systems class is based on RISC-V (reduced instructions set), an open source instructions set to design custom processors. Shakti is backed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, under its India Risc-V digital initiative (DIRV). Its objective is to promote the indigenous development of microprocessors based products that offer the best safety and visibility of the class for users adopting RISC-V technology.
The indigenous RISC-V controller for the space application chip took place from the baseline of the Shakti processor. It can be used in various IoT domains and computer systems for strategic needs. Development is part of the effort to indigenize the semiconductors used by the ISRO for its applications, command and control systems, and other critical functions that are aligned with their march towards self -sufficiency in spatial technologies.
Iro inertial Systems Unit (IISU) in Thiruvananthapuram proposed the idea of a RISC-V controller of 64 bits and collaborated with Iit Madras to define the specifications and design of the semiconductor chip.
The effort is important since the semiconductor was performed completely in India. It was conceived by IISU, designed and implemented by Iit Madras, manufactured in Chandīgarh, packaging in Perjenahalli, Karnataka; The motherboard plate was manufactured in Gujarat and was mounted by a company in Chennai, while the software was developed and started in Iit Madras.
The director of the Institute, V. Kamakoti, said: “After Rimo in 2018 and Moushik in 2020, this is the third Shakti chip that we have manufactured in SCL and successfully started in Iit Madras. That the design of chips, the manufacture, design and manufacture of the motherboard, the assembly software and the starter have happened in India, is another validation that exists the ecosystem and the experience of complete semiconductors. ”
The president of ISRO, V. Narayanan, said that the end -to -end indigenous manufacturing chip with Indian resources marked a milestone in the ‘make in India’ efforts in the design and manufacture of semiconductors. Kamaljith Singh, general director of SCL Chandigarh, said that the design validation after silicon and the extensive electrical tests at the water level were held in SCL in close collaboration with the Iit Madras team.
Published – February 12, 2025 05:11 PM IST
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