ISRO and IIT Madras jointly develop indigenous semiconductor chip for space-based applications

SHAKTI belongs to a people of systems connected RISC-IV, which is an open-source Instruction Set Architecture utilized for designing customized processors. SHAKTI, supported by the Electronics and IT, is simply a flagship inaugural to beforehand indigenous improvement of microprocessor-based products offering high-end information for users.

Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Inertial Systems Unit, Thiruvananthapuram, had conceived the plan of a 64-bit RSIC-V-based controller and the spot configurations and computing requirements were finalised based connected the existing sensor systems utilized by the abstraction agency. The IIT Madras team, led by V Kamakoti astatine the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, developed it nether the spot nether the SHAKTI microprocessor project.

The interior representation being fault-tolerant, the strategy offers higher reliability ; integration of peripheral interface modules and precocious serial buses were performed and the wide strategy underwent some bundle and hardware testing, pursuing which
results clasp committedness for expanding it to aboriginal abstraction missions, the squad said.

ISRO Chairman, V Narayanan, lauded the indigenous improvement of the IRIS Controller.

He said, ” I americium definite that this high-performance controller volition lend importantly to the aboriginal embedded controllers for abstraction mission-related applications. Its show volition beryllium confirmed during the planned product-based formation trial to beryllium done shortly.”

” The spot design, fabrication, packaging, motherboard plan and fabrication, assembly, bundle footwear were each done successful India, validating the beingness of the implicit semiconductor ecosystem and expertise wrong the country,” said Kamakoti.