AJIT- ‘MADE IN INDIA’ MICROPROCESSOR

 

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Topics covered: AJIT, Microprocessor, Significance

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Students of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-Bombay), have developed ‘AJIT’, a microprocessor conceptualised, designed, developed and manufactured in India.

• The chip of the microprocessor is made at the government-owned Semi-Conductor Laboratory in Chandigarh.
• The project was funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and IIT-Bombay. Powai Labs, a Mumbai-based company, has also invested in the venture and will own and market the product.

AJIT has been named after Professor Manav Desai’s friend and mentor, late Ajit Shelar (department of electrical engineering, IIT-Mumbai).

 

Features

• AJIT comes with an arithmetic logic unit that can do basic arithmetic and logical operations like addition, subtraction and comparison, and a memory management unit that stores and retrieves data from memory.
• It is a medium-sized processor.
• It can be used inside a set-top box, as a control panel for automation systems, in a traffic light controller or even robotic systems.
• AJIT will cost as less as Rs 100 when it is produced en-masse, nearly 10 lakh units.

 

Microprocessor

• A microprocessor is a computer processor that incorporates the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit (IC), or at most a few integrated circuits.
• The microprocessor  accepts binary data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory and provides results as output.
• Microprocessors contain both combinational logic and sequential digital logic.
• Microprocessors operate on numbers and symbols represented in the binary number system.
• Microprocessor consists of an Arithmetic Logical Unit (ALU), register array, and a control unit.
• ALU performs arithmetical and logical operations on the data received from the memory or an input device.
• Register array consists of registers identified by letters like B, C, D, E, H, L and accumulator.
• The control unit controls the flow of data and instructions within the computer.

 

 

 

Way Forward

Such innovation would not only reduce the country’s imports but also make India self-reliant in electronics.

 

Source: Indian Express

 

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