The Special manpower development program in VLSI and related areas (SMDP), was started by the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India, in 1998 to meet the growing manpower needs of the VLSI Industry in India. Under this program, state-of-the-art design tools were procured centrally and distributed to several institutes, including the IITs and NITs. The institutes are classified into Resource centres (RCs) and the participating institutes (PIs). Currently, we are in the third phase of the project, titled Chips to Systems Development(C2SD). The following institutions are part of the IIT Madras cluster. These institutions, together with IITM, are involved in several system and chip designs. Under this program, DIT also funds Tool training programs, Instruction enhancement programs (IEPs), and fabrication of ICs through the Semiconductor Laboratory(SCL), Mohali and other fabrication foundries.
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The following courses related to SMDP-C2SD topics were conducted under the GIAN program.
In SMDP Phase II, using funds from the India chip program, we have fabricated a pipelined A/D converter. It was designed by I.Rajesh, an M.S student, guided by Dr.Y.Shanthi Pavan. Thesis.pdf