IIT-Bhubaneswar Develops Semiconductor Chip For Cutting-Edge Applications

Bhubaneswar: The first batch of low power Integrated Circuits (IC) targeting internet of things-based sensing, monitoring and wireless devices have been successfully fabricated by the Research teams of IIT-Bhubaneswar.

The efforts of research teams towards rising of research teams and developing technologies started yielding results by the team headed by Dr MS Manikandan and Dr Srinivas Boppu.

The team has designed and developed a ultra-low power CMOS data conversion IC with the support of the Special Manpower Development Programme for chips to system design (SMDP-C2SD) of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) and got fabricated at the Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali.

The indigenously developed IC is targeted for energy-efficient secured biomedical data transmission in internet of medical things (IoMT) and wearable body area networks (WBANs) to Edge or Cloud computing devices.

The team led by Dr. Vijaya Sankara Rao Pasupureddi designed and developed a digitally intensive sub-sampling short range low-power RF front-end IC for IEEE802.15.4e standard targeting IoT  applications. The chip includes several design innovations.

Funded by Meity, the chip is being fabricated at TSMC, Taiwan, and likely to be received, soon, stated the team members.

In another innovation, a team led by Dr. Debapratim Ghosh is developing microwave passive and active components, filters power-detectors aim at RF instrumentation and ASIC applications, the institute said.

Director, IIT-Bhubaneswar Prof R V Raja Kumar said, “These semiconductor chip developments are the result of four years  of unstinted efforts of the institute. The team have put in a lot of hard work in building teams, expertise and carrying on the design and development work as a part of our vision to create a sustainable chip design and fabrication echo system at the institute and its hinterland. The institute has plans to further enhance the capabilities and taking it forward in the coming years”.