IIT Madras and ISRO Collaborate to Develop Semiconductor Chip

CIOTechOutlook Team | Wednesday, 12 February 2025, 09:52 IST

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The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and the Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) have collaborated to create a semiconductor chip suitable for various applications, highlighting efforts towards indigenisation in advanced technology.

IIT Madras collaborated with the Inertial Systems Unit of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) located in Thiruvananthapuram on the chip that was produced in a semiconductor lab in Chandigarh.

The Indigenous RISCV Controller for Space Applications (IRIS) chip was created using a Shakti processor baseline. It can be applied in various fields, ranging from the Internet of Things to computing systems for strategic purposes. The chip is a component of initiatives to localize semiconductors that ISRO employs for its applications, command and control systems, and various essential functions.

The Inertial Systems Unit (IISU) of ISRO in Thiruvananthapuram partnered with IIT Madras to establish the chip's specifications and create its design. The configuration was reached by considering the shared functional and computing needs of current sensors and systems utilized in ISRO missions. Fault-tolerant internal memories were connected to the SHAKTI core, improving the reliability of the system.

The motherboard of the chip was produced by PCB Power in Gujarat; it was put together and installed by Syrma SGS in Chennai, and the software was created by IIT Madras. Measures for expanding to future ISRO missions were implemented. The final design went through both software and hardware testing, aiming for a product with high reliability and high performance.

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