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system, however, requires an industry-like
team-based R&D approach similar to the
Georgia Tech model.

Two major barriers: R&D
infrastructure and industry
partnership
Two major barriers that impede progress
toward a digital India is a dearth of
R&D infrastructure at Indian academic
institutions, and their ability to attract a large
number of companies that are willing to
collaborate with them in India.
R&D infrastructure at academic
institutions. Indian academic institutions
are set up for design, but not for technologies.
They have little to no infrastructure for R&D
and for hands-on education. They are not
performing global-level competitive R&D
except in selective areas. This is the greatest
barrier to the vision and goals of digital
India. Correcting this problem will have the
highest impact of any and all others in the
years and decades to come.
Figure 3: An example of an integrated package. SOURCE: Prof. R. Tummala At tracting a large number of
newly-developed system technologies— explore and develop new, next-generation companies is the key. India can be a global
as a result of the current initiative by individual strategic technologies, they player, only if it can attract a large number
the Government. Integrated systems are also educate large numbers of students of companies to come there. And a large
the highest value-add, even more than who are earning BTech, MTech and PhD number of companies will come to India
semiconductors. An example of an integrated degrees. In addition, they can produce only if the country has a deep knowledge in
system is shown in Figure 3. intellectual property (IP). Global and systems design and systems technologies.
domestic companies are very much The Government of India’s proposal
Two-part R&D strategy for interested in working with IITs and the through its Indian Semiconductor Mission to
integrated systems packaging IISc, both for new technologies, as well as attract companies with $10B in incentives to
Developing integrated systems packaging for well-educated students. The integrated manufacture in India is the beginning of the
requires two R&D parts: 1) Designing,
exploring and developing individual systems
technologies that make up electronic
systems; and 2) Designing and integrating
those individual technology advances into
integrated systems. Figure 4 illustrates
these ideas. It shows 12 core individual
strategic research technologies (SRT)
similar to those published by SRC, to form
a single integrated system. However, both
of these can’t be performed optimally at a
single Institution.
SRTs are best performed by a team of
faculty, cutting across Indian Institutes
of Technology (IIT) and the Indian
Institute of Science (IISc) in partnership
with global industry. They are called
ICOEs: India-wide Centre’s of Excellence
(COEs)—multiple IITs and the IISc
working together on a common strategic
technology. These IITs and IISc not only Figure 4: 12 Strategic technologies that make up an integrated system. SOURCE: Prof. R. Tummala

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