MMRFIC Technology, an associate company of Sansera Engineering, announced a strategic partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) for the development of RISC-V based Secure SoC as a Strategic venture for Government of India.
RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is a free and open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) enabling a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration. The aim of SHAKTI (an open-source initiative by the RISE group at IITM) is to produce production-grade processors, complete System on Chips (SoCs), development boards and SHAKTI-based software platforms. This 5-year MOU, which facilitates the use of each other's Engineering manpower and EDA tools required, is a joint responsibility of IITM and MMRFIC.
MMRFIC has all the required capabilities, expertise and experience to contribute to this development and will be responsible for the following:
• Building and testing the “Secure SoC” using the hardware and software components given by IITM and MMRFIC's indigenously developed Cryptographic accelerators.
• Coordinating the project plan, schedule and sharing of resources, including human, hard and soft resources
• Integrating the hardware and software components, software toolchain, scripts, specifications and validation results.