स्वदेशी Microprocessor Challenge - Innovate Solutions for #आत्मनिर्भर भारत
Background of स्वदेशी Microprocessor Challenge
Under #AatmaNibharBharat Abhiyan, there is a growing need for Swadeshi Compute Hardware, that shall be part of every Smart Device deployed in different domains, including Electronics for public utility services such as Surveillance, Transportation, Environmental condition monitoring, to commodity appliances like smart fans/ locks/ washing machines. In addition, with growing penetration of smart electronics in strategic areas including Space, Defence and Nuclear energy, the need for Swadeshi Compute Hardware is crucial. It is not just the cost or embargo that drives this need, but also the dependence on external vendors, long term sustenance, quick enhancements to suit the ever-growing requirements, and most-importantly Security, which drives #AatmaNirbharta in Hardware domain, as the only option.
Under Microprocessor Development Programme spearheaded by MeitY at C-DAC, IIT Madras and IIT Bombay, not only the family of industry-grade Microprocessors has been designed from the scratch but also the compute ecosystem around them has been evolved as a step towards meeting India's future requirements.
Scope of स्वदेशी Microprocessor Challenge
To provide further impetus to the strong ecosystem of start-ups, innovators & researchers in the country, MeitY announces Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge made available by IIT Madras (शक्ति processors) and C-DAC (वेगा processors), powered by FPGA Boards of XILINX which is supported by CoreEL Technologies, to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship by taking up complex designs in the country and innovate frugal solutions around home-grown processor ecosystem, catering to both global and domestic requirements.The incubation support to the winning teams will be provided by an Incubator located at their geographical proximity coordinated by Maker Village.
Give your ideas a jump-start by sculpting your innovation with Technical support, Business mentorship augmented with Hardware, Software and funding support of total Rs. 4.30 Crore from MeitY to applicants at various stages of the Challenge as following.:
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
All the participants must be Indian Nationals and should make use of – (a) Xilinx FPGA Boards (Arty A7-100T or Arty A7-35T) and (b) one of the Microprocessors & associated ecosystem (शक्ति processors by IIT Madras or वेगा processors by C-DAC).
The contest is open to the following: –
All Indian students pursuing undergraduate, postgraduate & Doctoral degrees in Engineering discipline with Indian Colleges and Universities. Teams of not more than 5 students and 2 faculty members.
Start-up or,
Others, for those who are neither student nor Start-up.
If Applicant is not yet registered as Start-up, they are still allowed to submit ideas, but are required to be registered as private limited company (as defined in the Companies Act, 2013) or registered as a partnership firm (registered under section 59 of the Partnership Act, 1932) or a limited liability partnership (under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008) in India (as per definition available in the latest notification of DIPP at http://startupindia.gov.in) before 31st January 2021.
An entity shall be considered as 'start-up' per definition of startup as notified by DPIIT vide order no G.S.R. 127(E) dated 19th February 2019:
Upto a period of ten years from the date of incorporation/ registration, if it is incorporated as a private limited company (as defined in the Companies Act, 2013) or registered as a partnership firm (registered under section 59 of the Partnership Act, 1932) or a limited liability partnership (under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008) in India.
Turnover of the entity for any of the financial years since incorporation/ registration has not exceeded one hundred crore rupees.
Entity is working towards innovation, development or improvement of products or processes or services, or if it is a scalable business model with a high potential of employment generation or wealth creation. Provided that an entity formed by splitting up or reconstruction of an existing business shall not be considered a 'Startup'. Innovative Security Products being developed should not have violated/ breached/ copied any product already launched and/or copyrighted or patented.
For the product to be developed as part of the Challenge, if any IPR/Patent is being used, contesting entity must possess the legitimate rights to use the IPR/Patents.
The product to be developed for the Challenge should be designed and developed in India.
Any group of individuals, which is not registered as startup and wants to participate in the Challenge may participate with the condition that the group must register the entity by 31st January 2021 and submit the copy of registration to organizing committee failing which submitted proposal will not be considered further.
Contest Structure
The Challenge is divided into 4 Stages:
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Stage
Timelines
1
Registration
18th August – 15th September 2020
2
Quarter Finals
16th September- 10th November 2020
3
Semi Finals
01st January – 15th March 2021
4
Finals
01st April – 15th June 2021
1. Registration
All the participating teams meeting the Eligibility Criteria are expected to register on or before 15th September 2020 at MyGov Portal here. Teams completing the registration process will enter into the Quarter Finals Phase.
2. Quarter Finals
All Quarter Finalists to go through the following steps:
A). Pre-Screening Stage
Participating students to get approval from Faculty Mentor(s) from their respective College(s) as applicable.
Understand the technical details by going through the Tutorials (for Processor SDK, FPGA Boards, demo applications etc.) made available for शक्ति processors by IIT Madras or वेगा processors by C-DAC.
Submit the tentative Abstract of the proposal by 10th October 2020 within 2000 words and solving a Quiz to ensure that participant has fair understanding.
B). Ideate Stage
Submit the detailed Proposal by 10th November 2020.
The submissions will be reviewed by a panel of domain experts against 2 categories – Business Potential and Technical Innovation. The announcement for the 100 Teams to be shortlisted for the Semi Finals Stage will be made by 25th December 2020.
3. Semi Finals
All 100 Semi finalists to go through the following steps:
A). Minimum Viable Prototype (MVP) Stage
Each Semi Finalist Team will be provided with the- (a) Cash Prize of Rs. 25,000/-, (b) access to Indigenous Processor Ecosystem and (c) Xilinx Board to develop the MVP.
The monthly progress to be submitted along with following- Progress Report including deviations, if any, and Video demonstration of MVP & Business Plan.
B). Proof-of-Concept (POC) Stage
Further Rs. 75,000/- may be provided to those Semi Finalists during the 1st review, who – (a) either demonstrate POC/ substantial progress or, (b) require additional COTS to demonstrate a POC.
All Semi Finalists to demonstrate the POC/ MVP on 15th March 2021.
The POC/ MVP will be reviewed by a panel of domain experts against 2 categories – Business Potential and Technical Innovation. The announcement for the 25 Teams to be selected for the Finals will be made by 31st March 2021.
4. Finals
All 25 Finalists to go through the following steps:
Each Finalist will be provided with the Cash Prize of Rs. 4.00 Lakh to develop the Hardware Prototype.
The monthly progress to be submitted along with following- Progress Report including deviations, if any, and Video demonstration of Hw Prototype & Business Plan.
All Finalists will be invited to demonstrate their Hw Prototype in the Final Evaluation event on 15th June 2021.
5. Winners
Top 10 Teams winning in the Final Stage will be announced in June 2021 for the following awards & support towards incubating the Start-up at identified Incubation Centre-
Rs. 35.00 Lakh to the Winning Team,
Rs. 30.00 Lakh to 1st Runner-up Team,
Rs. 25.00 Lakh to 2nd Runner-up Team
Total Rs. 1.40 Crore to 7 other Teams.
Important Dates
Stage
Intermediate Stages
Timelines
Registration
18th August – 15th September 2020
Quarter Finals
16th September – 10th November 2020
Pre-Screening Stage: Abstract submission and solving a Quiz by 10th October 2020.
Ideate Stage: Detailed proposal submission by 10th November 2020.
Quarter Finals Phase Results
25th December 2020
Shipment of Xilinx FPGA Board ported with Swadeshi Processor to Semi Finalists
25th December – 31st December 2020
Semi Finals
01st January- 15th March 2021
Preliminary Document Report submission for review by 15th January 2021
Progress Report submission by 15th February 2021
POC/ MVP submission by 15th March 2021
Semi Finals Results
31st March 2021
Finals
01st April – 15th June 2021
Progress Report submission by 15th May 2021
Final Results
June 2021
Outcomes and Awards
Outcomes
REWARDS AND RECOGNITION : Win lucrative prize money at various stages of the Challenge.
FAST TRACK YOUR FUTURE : A platform to innovate and demonstrate capabilities.
VISIBILITY : A high viewership platform provides you with an opportunity to showcase and promote your innovation.
BE MENTORED BY THE BEST : Opportunity to gain mentorship and guidance under the best VLSI & Electronics System Design Experts in the country.
EXPAND YOUR REACH : Opportunity to meet peers, domain experts and other stakeholders.
Awards:
Processors
Under Microprocessor Development Programme initiated by MeitY, a family of 32-bit/ 64-bit Microprocessor has been designed from the scratch using Open Source ISA (Instruction Set Architecture), as a step towards meeting India’s future requirements of strategic/ commercial/ Industrial sector. Out of these, following processors along with the associated ecosystem ported on Xilinx Boards are made available to the participants of this Challenge:
The SHAKTI Processor Program, a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, started as an academic initiative back in 2014 at IIT-Madras, with the sole aim of building an open source processor ecosystem which would not only be of industrial grade quality but will also push India at the frontier of microprocessor research.
Under the Microprocessor Development Programme of MeitY, IIT Madras has designed and developed a family of industry-grade 32-bit and 64-bit Microprocessors from the ground up as a step toward meeting India's future requirements of strategic/ commercial/ Industrial sector. These processors have been fabricated using Intel's 22nm Technology at Oregon (USA) and also in 180nm at the Indian foundry SCL, Mohali. The processors hold the potential to serve more than 80% of India's strategic computing needs. With continued support from MeitY, today the SHAKTI initiative (apart from micro-processors) offers: complete software stack, FPGA prototypes, interconnect fabrics, accelerators, device IPs, verification suites, and much more all for free under permissive open source licenses.
As part of the Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge, IIT Madras will make available three FPGA proven SoCs based on SHAKTI processors for participants to build novel applications:
Pinaka (E32-A35) and Parashu (E32-A100): These SoCs employ a 3 stage, 32-bit in-order E-class processor core. Pinaka is the E class based SoC on the Artix7-35T FPGA board and Parashu is the E class based SoC on the Artix7-100T FPGA Board. The E-class processor cores are designed for low power/area constraints and suitable for applications like smart-cards, IoT, Embedded platforms, motor-controls and robotic platforms, etc. The SoCs include a wide variety of devices like: PWMs, SPIs, UARTs, I2Cs, GPIOs, XADC, Timers, PLICs (Programmable Interrupt Controllers) and includes Physical Memory Protection (PMP). Both the SoCs have Pin Mux enabled and Arduino compatible. Parashu includes access to a high speed DDR memory and Ethernet Lite as well.
Vajra (C64-A100): : This particular SoC employs a 64-bit, linux capable, 6-stage, in-order C-class processor core on the Artix7-100T FPGA Board. The C-class processor core includes many performance rich features like branch predictors, caches, operand bypass, etc., thereby delivering substantial performance at minimal area/power overheads. Vajra includes all the devices of Parashu and can be useful for high performance applications like networking, gateways, storage, etc.
Each of the above SoC are accompanied by a full-stack SDK and IDE to ease development of applications. For more details on SHAKTI Processor Ecosystem, please visit here
Under the Microprocessor Development Programme of MeitY, C-DAC has successfully completed the design, development and validation of a series of 32-bit /64-bit Single and Multi-core superscalar Out-of-Order high performance processors named 'VEGA', based on the open source RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) with Multilevel Caches, Memory Management Unit and Coherent Interconnect. C-DAC has also integrated a wide range of in-house developed Silicon proven System and Peripheral IPs and has successfully ported the SoCs on FPGA boards, booted Linux/ FreeRTOS, run various applications and verified the performance with standard benchmarks. The complete software ecosystem comprising of the Board Support Packages, SDK with integrated tool chain, IDE plug-ins and Debugger for development, testing and debugging is also available.
As part of the Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge, C-DAC will make available two VEGA microprocessor ecosystem variants for participants to choose based on their requirements and targeted application:
VEGA ET1031, a 32-bit high performance microcontroller class processor comprising of a 3-stage in-order RISC-V based core. This processor design is compact and efficient and is targeted for applications like sensor fusion, smart meters, small IoT devices, wearable devices, electronic toys, etc. The peripherals available in VEGA ET1031 processor based SoC are GPIO, Interrupt Controller, Timers, RAM, SPI, UART, I2C, PWM and ADC. This SoC is targeted for Arty A7-35T FPGA board.
VEGA AS1061, a 64-bit processor with a 6-stage in-order pipeline optimized for high performance. This processor comprises of an efficient branch predictor and Instruction & Data caches and is targeted for applications like IoT devices, motor control, wearable devices, high-performance embedded, consumer electronics and industrial automation. The peripherals available in this VEGA AS1061 processor based SoC are GPIO, Interrupt Controller, Timers, DDR3 RAM, SPI, UART, I2C PWM, ADC and 10/100 Ethernet. This SoC is targeted for Arty A7-100T FPGA board.
For more details on VEGA Processor Ecosystem, please visit here
Sample Applications
The family of processors & associated ecosystem with varied capabilities and Xilinx development Board are provided free of cost under the Challenge. The students are expected to choose the appropriate processor based on the application to be targeted by them and augment it with other COTS (Commercial-off-the-shelf) components comprising Boards with additional sensors, devices, instruments, to build a Working Prototype of their solution. Some of the indicative areas, not limited to the following:
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