SHAKTI PROCESSOR PROJECT

Project Shakti:

• Background: Project Shakti was started in 2014 by IIT-Madras. In 2017, Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology funded a part of the project.
  
  
• Objective: To build 6 variants of processors based on the RISC-V ISA (from University of California, Berkeley).
  
  
• Application: To meet the demands of defence and strategic equipment such as NAVIC (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite) and Internet of Things (IoT) electronics.
  
  

RISECREEK:

• The initial batch of 300 chips named RISECREEK are the first of a family of six industry-standard microprocessors to be produced under Project Shakti.
  
  
• These have been fabricated at Intel’s facility at Oregon, U.S., to run the Linux operating system.
  
  
• Its design is Open source. Thus these microprocessors can be adapted by others.