Telecom Lead Asia: Texas Instruments (TI) has launched a Center of Excellence at Netaji Subash Institute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi.
This is the first Center of Excellence for Embedded Product Development that TI is setting up in any educational institution in India.
The center will promote design of embedded products based on TI’s semiconductors. It will promote design of educational solutions for teaching subjects on embedded systems. The center will conduct educational activities such as seminars and train-the-trainer workshops that will be open to teachers from other engineering colleges as well.
“It is very important to experiment and validate any theory before you make your judgement,” said P V Indiresan, former Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. “One must question theories, only then can one become a good scientist.”
TI will be associated with the working of the center. Seminars and courses will pertain to TI’s embedded processors and analog solutions such as, MSP430 and Stellaris microcontrollers, energy harvesting, and low power wireless connectivity solutions. TI will donate the equipment, semiconductor tools and solutions to get the center started. Students of NSIT who work on product design activities at the center will be offered internships.
“Our main objective is to encourage and promote an ecosystem in the design of embedded products,” said Dr. C P Ravikumar, Technical Director – University Relations, Texas Instruments India. “The center will design products that are relevant to the Indian electronics industry and nurture talent in the area of embedded product design.”
“The launch of the Center formalizes the long association that NSIT has with Texas Instruments. We have produced educational products such as Stellaris Guru and are now working on a number of interesting projects on MSP430 and Stellaris,” said Dhananjay Gadre, Professor of Electronics and Communication, NSIT and the Coordinator of the CoE.
