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Ambar Singh Roy

Kolkata, Oct 17 An exclusive VLSI chip design, testing and prototype manufacturing centre that is proposed to be set up here in Kolkata is expected to be operational by the end of 2008. To be called the India Design Centre, the “one-stop-VLSI-shop” will be spread over 100,000 sq.ft, according to Mr Siddharth, Principal Secretary in the IT Department, West Bengal.

Mr Siddharth said land required to set up the project had been identified and the process of selecting the vendors was on. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), has prepared the concept note for the project. Besides IIT-KGP, resources would be drawn from the engineering colleges in Shibpur and Jadavpur as well.

According to him, the ground floor space of the proposed facility would comprise a laboratory and prototype-manufacturing facility. Post-graduate courses on VLSI would be conducted on the first floor of the building, where a training facility would also be housed. The courses would be conducted under the aegis of IIT-KGP. An incubation centre would be set up on the third floor and the fourth floor would be let out to companies.

The commercial space at the India Design Centre would be let out only to companies engaged in in designing, testing and manufacturing of VLSI chip prototypes.

“For the entrepreneur in the VLSI space, the India Design Centre provides for an entire eco-system that is required at one place. It will also provide a big boost to revenue generation in the IT sector in the State since the per-seat revenue generation is more in the VLSI industry”, Mr Siddharth said.

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