University of Hyderabad gets Rs 86 lakh project under MeiTY’s Chip-to-Startup Program

NEW DELHI: The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeiTY) has chosen University of Hyderabad's (UoH) Centre for Advanced Studies in Electronics Science and Technology (CASEST) as a participant in its Chip-to-Startup Program.

The project, "Development of Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) targeting Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare applications", assigned to UoH under the programme is worth Rs 85.66 lakh.

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“The objective of this project is to develop an ASIC for reconstructing the compressed samples by the healthcare IoT nodes. In a tough competition, the proposal from CASEST was one of only 60 proposals selected from all over India,” said the statement from University of Hyderabad.

VLSI design, integrated circuit technologies

The team of CASEST includes Hyderabad University professors Samrat L Sabat, SVS Nageswara Rao, Bhawna Gomber, and Anjali Priya. The project will give training to 400 graduates, postgraduates, and PhD scholars in the areas of very large-scale integration (VLSI) design, integrated circuit (IC) technologies, and microelectronics. The project will also contribute to research and development, as well as the development of skilled human resources required for India's National Semiconductor Mission.

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The University of Hyderabad will have access to electronic design automation (EDA) tools such as Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor Graphics, which are essential for VLSI and microelectronics-related research for this project. The access to such tools will empower the university to conduct research and provide training to the students and scholars.