IIT-Kharagpur, Cadence in chipset design tie-up

CIRCUIT EC / Kolkata

The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) has successfully designed complete chipsets for the communication and power supply sectors with technology support from Cadence Design Systems (India).

Said P P Chakrabarti, dean of sponsored research and industrial consultancy, IIT-Kgp, “The VLSI lab of the institute has made complete analog, RF and mixed-signal chipsets using the Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform.”

IIT-Kgp and Cadence will soon start a new course on chip designing for students of IIT-Kgp as well as researchers from outside the country.

According to Himanshu Singh, executive director (India and SAARC), Cadence, the company has tied up with all the IITs and provided them with technology support, but IIT-Kgp was the first to come out successfully with complete chipsets.