Indigenously Developed Silicon Photonics Technology Solutions Launched

• MeitY unveiled two indigenously developed Silicon Photonics solutions — a Silicon Photonics Process Design Kit (PDK) and a Universal packaged Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuit (PPIC) Test Engine — built at CoE-CPPICS, IIT Madras.
• A milestone in India's photonics technology sovereignty and part of the larger India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) push under the Digital India / Semicon India ecosystem.
• Examinable as a GS-III Science & Technology item: chip design, semiconductor self-reliance, R&D Centres of Excellence.