IIT Delhi Team Builds India’s First University-Developed Indigenous Micro-GPU

New Delhi: A research team at IIT Delhi has developed a working micro-Graphics Processing Unit (micro-GPU), marking what the researchers describe as the first demonstrable indigenously designed micro-GPU developed at an Indian university. The project was carried out by M.Tech students Nammi Akash and M. Ravi Teja, under the supervision of Prof. Jayadeva and Prof. Kaushik Saha of the Electrical Engineering Department. The team implemented a programmable graphics-processing architecture in RTL and demonstrated it on a Spartan-7 FPGA. The technology is intended for embedded applications where compact and affordable graphics processing is required, including industrial displays, e-rickshaw dashboards, navigation terminals, and educational devices. The researchers are now exploring a larger 8–16-core graphics architecture, along with a compiler and software toolchain, and are considering a future ASIC implementation using a 65 nm semiconductor process. The development could provide a foundation for further research into locally designed graphics hardware for embedded and resource-constrained applications.