India is one of the fastest growing markets of electronics in the world. There is potential to develop the Electronics System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) sector to meet our domestic demand as well as to use the capabilities so created to successfully export ESDM products from the country.

These views were exchanged by experts during a daylong national workshop on ESDM organised by Indian Institution of Information Technology, Allahabad with the support of Department of IT (DIT), Ministry of Communications and IT, New Delhi, Government of India at Allahabad recently.

According to the academicians present at the workshop, India is recognised as a global player in software and software services sector. The vision is to transform India into a global hub for electronics system design and manufacturing (ESDM) so as to meet the growing domestic and global demand.

The increasing role of electronics especially in the field of information technology was stressed upon. India has now started working on design and manufacturing of electronics system but the experts warned of the Chinese domination in the area in recent years.

The team of experts and IIIT-A faculty also laid stress on creation of capacities within academic institutions to enhance the production of adequate number of PhDs and post-graduates for supporting the growth of chip design and embedded software and board/hardware design industry in the country.

The need to develop a center of excellence for innovation in industrial electronics with focus on making affordable standardized products which help India to maintain its growth in industrial segments was also brought to fore.