IIT Bhubaneswar develops semiconductor chip for cutting-edge apps

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar have developed and designed low-power integrated circuits (ICs) targeting IoT-based sensing, monitoring and wireless devices.  

The team headed by MS Manikandan and Srinivas Boppu has designed and got developed an 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). It was fabricated at the Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) in 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. 

Another team led by Vijaya Sankara Rao Pasupureddi has designed and developed a digitally intensive sub-sampling short range low-power RF front-end IC for the IEEE802.15.4e standard targeting IoT applications. The chip includes several design innovations. The development activity too is funded by MeitY, the chip is being fabricated at TSMC, Singapore, and likely to be received soon. 

RV Raja Kumar, Director, IIT Bhubaneswar, said, “These semiconductor chip developments assume significance on a number of counts. These are coming from the institute after putting a lot of hard work for the last four years 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.” 

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