IIT-Madras develops country’s first indigenous microprocessor
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) researchers have designed and booted up country’s first indigenously developed microprocessor that can be used in mobile computing devices, embedded low power wireless systems and networking systems besides reducing reliance on imported microprocessors in communications and defence sectors.
By : migrator
Update: 2018-10-26 21:41 GMT
Chennai
The microprocessor’s quality and efficiency are on par with international standards. The ‘SHAKTI’ family of processors was fabricated at semi-conductor laboratory of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), making it the first ‘RISC-V microprocessor’ to be completely designed and made in India.
The other crucial aspect of such an indigenous design, development and fabricating approach is reducing the risk of deploying systems that may be infected with back-doors and hardware Trojans.
This development will assume huge significance when systems based on SHAKTI processors are adopted by strategic sectors such as defence, nuclear power installations and government agencies and departments.
The impact of the fabrication is that India has now attained independence in designing, developing and fabricating end-to-end systems within the country, leading to self-sufficiency.
With a large percentage of applications requiring sub 200 MHZ processors, the current success paves the way to productisation of many hand-held and control application devices.
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