New Delhi, March 7 -- Several leading educational institutions in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) are playing an active role in strengthening the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) by contributing to talent development in semiconductor design and related technologies.

Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India has made significant progress in the last four years toward its 10-year target of training 85,000 engineers in semiconductor design under the Chips to Startups (C2S) initiative.

The minister said world-class Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools supported by global companies such as Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, Renesas, Ansys and AMD have been made available in 315 academic institutions acro...