Newz Desk, Durgapur: The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at NIT Durgapur has successfully taped out a real chip titled ‘Asynchronous FIFO for Forest Event Monitoring’ under the Chips to Startup (C2S) scheme of MeitY. The project was shaped under the contributions of Hemanta Kumar Mondal, Aniruddha Chandra, Subhadeep Nag and Suman Kalyan Porel.
At SEMICON India 2025, held in New Delhi, Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw presented the first ‘made-in-India’ chip to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where NIT Durgapur’s design, C2S0029, was proudly featured.
Arvind Choubey, director of NIT Durgapur, congratulated the whole team on this occasion. He said, it’s a proud moment for the whole institute, and asked the team to continue the good work in the future also.
Name of ASIC fabricated at SCL MPW Shuttle-I: Fully digital asynchronous FIFO for long range radio applications
An asynchronous FIFO (First-In, First-Out) for i LoRa (Indian Long Range) applications is a smart data buffer that lets data be written and read using different clock signals, even when those clocks aren’t synchronised. It holds up to 32 data units, ensuring smooth transfer by avoiding loss or delay when writing is faster or reading is slower. This FIFO design ensures reliable data handling between components running at different clock speeds
