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IIT Madras & ISRO jointly develops India’s first Aerospace-Grade Semiconductor IRIS

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 A significant advancement in semiconductor technology has been made by the Indian Space Research Organization ( ISRO ) and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras ( IIT Madras ). They have developed and successfully tested IRIS (Indigenous RISCV Controller for Space Applications), a SHAKTI -based semiconductor chip of aerospace quality. This development was part of the effort to indigenize semiconductors used by ISRO for its applications, Command and Control Systems and other critical functions aligning with its march towards ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ in Space Technologies. The SHAKTI microprocessor project is led by Prof. V. Kamakoti at Prathap Subrahmanyam Centre for Digital Intelligence and Secure Hardware Architecture ( PSCDISHA ) in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. The SHAKTI class of systems are based on RISC-V , an open-source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), for designing custom processors. ‘SHAKTI’ is backed by Ministry of Electronics and Info...
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NPU : Neural Processing Unit

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Neural processing units ( NPUs ) are specialized computer processors designed to mimic the information processing mechanisms of the human brain. They are specifically optimized for neural networks, deep learning and machine learning tasks and applications. NPUs are designed to optimize AI computations thanks to their significant performance improvements over traditional CPUs and GPUs. Differing from general-purpose central processing units (CPUs) or graphics processing units (GPUs), NPUs are tailored to accelerate AI tasks and workloads, such as calculating neural network layers composed of scalar, vector and tensor math.  Matrix multiplications, convolutions, and other linear algebraic operations essential to neural networks are best performed by NPUs. NPUs make impressive speed and efficiency advantages by utilizing parallel processing on top of memory architectures that have been tuned. Often utilized in heterogeneous computing architectures that integrate various processor...
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Starting with Ubuntu

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Hardware is nothing but finely designed machinery. A machine is ultimately a machine only, which is always made to work. It is the kernel on an operating system that makes the hardware alive. There is a hugely popular operating system Linux which is mostly used in most sincere applications.  Linux is an open source operating system (i.e., its code is also available) created by a Finnish student Linus Torvalds . Linux is available in multiple distributions such as Ubuntu, Red Hat, Linux Mint, Fedora, Debian, CentOS and many more. In this session, you shall learn to work with Ubuntu distribution of Linux. It's derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. Ubuntu is officially released in multiple editions: Desktop, Server, and Core for Internet of things devices and robots. The operating system is developed by the British company Canonical and a community of other developers, under a meritocratic governance model. Starting Ubuntu When you boot your comput...
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