SHAKTI (microprocessor)

Shakti

A prototype version of a Shakti microcontroller.
General information
Designed by	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Common manufacturers	Intel Semi-Conductor Laboratory
Architecture and classification
Application	SoC, development boards, based software platform, IOT
Instruction set	RISC-V
Models	E-Class C-Class I-Class M-Class S-Class H-Class

Shakti (stylized as SHAKTI) is an open-source initiative by the Reconfigurable Intelligent Systems Engineering (RISE) group at IIT Madras to develop the first indigenous industrial-grade processor.^[1][2] The aims of the Shakti initiative include building an open source production-grade processor, complete systems on a chip, microprocessor development boards, and a Shakti-based software platform. The main focus of the team is computer architecture research to develop SoCs, which are competitive with commercial offerings in the market in area, power, and performance. The source code for Shakti is open-sourced under the Modified BSD License.^[3][2]

V. Kamakoti carried out the SHAKTI Microprocessor Project, at Prathap Subrahmanyam Centre for Digital Intelligence and Secure Hardware Architecture (Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras). The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology supports it through its Digital India RISC-V initiative.^[4]