The Indian Central Government led by Narendra Modi, has recently taken an incredible initiative to lift the semiconductor ecosystems of India, by providing over 100 colleges with state-of-the-art electronic design automation (EDA) tools.

As per the information, government has taken these tools from Siemens EDA, Synopsys and Cadence, as part of efforts to prepare talent for the country’s developing semiconductor ecosystem. These tools will play ultimate role in upskilling a skilled workforce for the burgeoning semiconductor industry.

The main motto of this mission is to make all the students industry ready till the time they complete their graduation. In global scenario, there are only a few of companies that make these tools and no single chip is there which can be designed properly without their financial help.

Siemens EDA, Synopsys, and Cadence have collaborated for partnerships and programs to support this initiative. Siemens is partnering with the IT ministry to create an EDA tools grid under the design-linked incentive scheme for chip startups.

Synopsys has partnered with IIT Bombay, Indian Institute of Science, and Jadavpur University to develop talent for the chip industry and address workforce shortage as a part of Synopsys Academic & Research Alliances (SARA) programme.

Cadence has made its suite of EDA technologies accessible to 350 engineering colleges, offering tools at a highly subsidized rate. Country manager, Siemens EDA Ruchir Dixit, shared that, India needs skilled workforce which will work for proposed chips.

Government’s initiative has equipped more than 100 academic institutions in the country with EDA tools from Siemens EDA and others. Over the past five years, it aims to train 85,000 individuals in very large-scale integration and embedded system design. In its first round, 103 companies were selected for the design of a global navigation receiver SoC for NAVIC and GPS.

This initiative will not only boost upskilling process, but it will also assist startup incubation by providing the necessary technology at a fraction of the commercial cost. With this Semicon initiative of government which was launched with 76000 crore, with an aim of developing semiconductor and mobile industry.