Call for Entries: Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) Grand Challenge

This challenge promotes a vibrant culture of innovation and entrepreneurship by empowering participants to tackle complex design challenges and build frugal solutions around India’s home-grown SoC ecosystem.

Benefits

• Free Access
  • Vega and Shakti processor-based SoC on Artix-7 100T FPGA Boards
• Incubation
  • Support to top 30 teams at Maker Village for 1 Year after the Grand Challenge
• Internship
  • Internship opportunities at L&T Semiconductor Technologies and Renesas

Funding Information

• Total Prize: 60 Lakhs
• PoC Stage Funding: INR 1,00,000 per team
• 1st Prize – 30 Lakhs
• 2nd Prize – 20 Lakhs
• 3rd Prize – 10 Lakhs

Eligibility Criteria

• All the participants must be Indian Nationals.
• Students pursuing undergraduate, postgraduate & Doctoral degrees in Engineering discipline with Indian Colleges and Universities.
• Teams of not more than 5 students and 1 faculty members as a mentor.
• All team members must belong to the same institution; however, members from different branches of the same institution may form a team. The maximum team size is limited to six members, including the mentor.

Application Requirements

• It is mandatory for all team members to provide a valid institutional ID card at the time of registration.
• The product to be developed for the Challenge should be designed and developed in India.
• For the product to be developed as part of the Challenge, if any IPR/Patent is being used, contesting entity must possess the legitimate rights to use the IPR/Patents.
• If multiple teams register from the same institution, only the top performing team (single team) will be considered for quarter final stage.
• Top 100 teams qualified for quarter final have to submit the proposal along with a bonafide certificate and No Objection Certificate (NOC) mandatorily from the institution.

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