IIT Bombay team won VLSI design competition with Indigenous OTP memory

A team from IIT Bombay secured first place at the VLSI User Design Track Competition during the 38th International Conference on VLSI Design and the 24th International Conference on Embedded Systems in Bengaluru in January. The team developed an anti-fuse One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory using patented PECVD SiO₂ capacitors integrated into CMOS technology at the 180nm node at Semiconductor Labs, Mohali. The design enables low-voltage programming at 3.3V and supports secure, radiation-hardened memory for applications such as e-passports, driver’s licenses, and space missions.
The team, led by Prof. Udayan Ganguly from the Department of Electrical Engineering, included Ajay Kumar Singh, Shreeniwas Daulatabad, Shatadal Chatterjee, and PhD scholars Abhishek Kadam and Shreyas Deshmukh. The technology is being commercialized by Numelo Tech Pvt Ltd, a startup incubated at IIT Bombay’s Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE).