Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India has set up ChipIN Centre at C-DAC Bangalore to dedicate its services to semiconductor design community of the country. The facility acts as one-stop centre to provide semiconductor design tools, fab access, virtual prototyping hardware lab access to fabless chip designers from Startups/MSME and Academia. It is a common dedicated centralised cloud-supported design facility, not only hosting the most advanced EDA tools for the entire chip design cycle, but also provide aggregate services for fabrication of design at Indian foundries, for example, SCL foundry & overseas foundries and packaging.

ChipIN Centre is meant to catalyse chip designing in India by catering to fabless chip design ecosystem in the country. The facility provides Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) support to Academic Institutions, Startups and MSMEs by enabling access to Indian foundries and overseas foundries. It provides centralized EDA Design Tools (Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens-EDA) for IC design flow. The facility also provides design services like Fab compliance checks, validation, integration of designs, coordinating with identified firm for packaging of fabricated chips and enabling characterization and prototyping in a centralized manner. The facility will also focus on creation of reusable IP core repository and providing training on EDA tools. The facility also has provision for Virtual Prototyping Lab at NIELIT Calicut for imparting VLSI design training.

Process flow - Design Compliance Flow & Reticle Planning to Packaged Chip