“As an educational establishment, we’ve performed all the things we are able to to develop the Shakti microprocessor, and now I would like you to make it accessible to the world” — Prof. Kamakoti Veezhinathan.
It was a momentous event when IIT Madras introduced the discharge of the Shakti microprocessor in 2018. Whereas the adoption of this chip throughout strategic sectors, akin to defence, nuclear energy installations, authorities businesses and departments, is but to be seen on a large scale, startups akin to Mindgrove Applied sciences are working in the direction of making it accessible to the world.
Based and incubated below IIT Madras in 2021 by co-founders and former colleagues, Shashwath TR (CEO) and Sharan Srinivas J (CTO), fabless semiconductor startup Mindgrove Applied sciences harnesses the potential of open supply know-how and the RISC-V Instruction Set Structure (ISA) to create a high-performance microcontroller chip working on a 28-nanometre know-how node with a SHAKTI core.
The Shakti processor’s open supply nature, launched below a permissive BSD three-clause license, eliminates licensing charges and gross sales royalties usually related to shopping for proprietary chips, decreasing prices. “The RISC-V ISA combines classes from legacy ISAs like x86, ARM, MIPS, and extra, leading to spectacular efficiency effectivity for sources invested. The chip’s microarchitecture is designed to be easy, minimising space and energy consumption, thus decreasing manufacturing prices linked to chip measurement. We profit from monetary and infrastructure help and mentorship supplied by IIT Madras, serving to us determine and tackle potential points early on,” says Shashwath.
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