C-DOT and Silizium Circuits advance indigenous LEO satellite and GNSS RF ASIC development with SC2391 chip tape-out

The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the research and development arm of India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has signed an agreement with Silizium Circuits Pvt Ltd to collaborate on the design and development of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite components and a GNSS RF Front-End Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). The initiative is funded by the DoT’s Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF), which supports Indian startups, academia, and R&D institutions in creating and commercializing telecommunication solutions.
Silizium Circuits, a fabless semiconductor IP and System-on-Chip (SoC) startup incubated at FABCI, IIT Hyderabad, specializes in analog, RF, and mixed-signal technologies. The agreement was formalized in a ceremony attended by Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay, CEO of C-DOT, Rijin John, Co-Founder and CEO of Silizium Circuits, C-DOT Directors Dr. Pankaj Kumar Dalela and Ms. Shikha Srivastava, and DoT officials including Dr. Parag Agarwal, DDG of TTDF, and Shri Vinod Kumar, DDG of SRI.
Silizium Circuits announced the successful tape-out of its first product, the SC2391 Front-End Module (FEM). This chip supports multi-band functionality for all global navigation satellite systems, including GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, and India’s NAVIC, and is designed for 5G applications. The SC2391 prioritizes low noise and h...