The Government of India’s ‘Chips to Startups’ (C2S) programme, under the India Semiconductor Mission, has made tremendous progress, completing training for 85,000 engineers in semiconductor design over the past decade. Students have been trained in 315 academic institutions as part of the current chip design training programme.
Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, highlighted how the programme has provided students with an experience of using world-class EDA tools, such as Synopsys, Cadence, Renesas, AMD, Ansys, and Siemens. Using these tools, the students have experienced hands-on learning as needed when they step into the industry. So far, the ministry claims to have recorded more than 1.85 crore hours of EDA tool usage for chip design training.
The training under this programme comprises a holistic experience from design and fabrication to packaging and testing. The chips designed by students are tested at Mohali’s Semiconductor Laboratory. This allows them to understand the complete semiconductor development cycle.
Students from across the country are taking this training, and the government aims to expand this programme under the second edition of the India Semiconductor Mission by raising the number of affiliated institutions from 315 to 500.
As we expect the electronics industry to grow manifold in the coming years, the need for a skilled workforce is bound to rise exponentially, too. Hence, the upskilling and thorough training programme are important to keep India at the forefront of this global race.
By: Shreya Bansal | Sub-Editor
