Eligibility For Availing Incentives Under The Scheme

1. Financial incentives and design infrastructure support will be extended to domestic companies, Startups and MSMEs engaged in semiconductor design or semiconductor-linked design.
2. The approved applicants that claim incentives under the scheme shall retain their domestic status (i.e. more than 50% of the capital in it is beneficially owned byresident Indian citizens and/ or Indian companies, which are ultimately owned and controlled by resident Indian citizens) for a period of three years after claiming incentives under the scheme

Disbursement of Incentives

1. Design Infrastructure support: The support under this category may be
   claimed by the applicant subsequent to receiving the approval letter from
   Nodal Agency.
2. Product Design Linked Incentive (P-DLI): The claim under this category
   may be submitted subsequent to meeting the linked milestone as indicated
   in the approval letter from Nodal Agency.
3. Deployment Linked Incentive (DLI): The claim under this category may
   be submitted as early as the end of the quarter in which the threshold criteria
   for the year in consideration have been met.

Threshold and Ceiling Limits

1. Ceiling Limits for the Design Infrastructure Support under the Scheme
   1.1 Reimbursement of up to ₹30 Lakh per application for MPW fabrication of design
   and post-silicon validation activities.
   1.2 Access to national EDA Tool grid and IP Core repository.
   Application details for seeking support for the Design Infrastructure to be setup under the
   Scheme will be issued separately.
2. Ceiling Limits for availing the Product Design Linked Incentive (P-DLI) under the
   Scheme
   Milestones linked reimbursement of up to 50% of the eligible expenditure subject to a
   ceiling of ₹15 Crore per application for designing semiconductor goods indicated under
   Target Segment and making them ready to be demonstrated in operational environment
   and volume production.
3. Threshold amount for availing the Deployment Linked Incentive (DLI) under the
   Scheme
   Reimbursement of 6% to 4% of net sales of designed semiconductor goods over 5 years
   subject to a ceiling of ₹30 Crore shall be made per application.
   3.1 Following is the rate of incentive to be reimbursed on the net sales of designed
   semiconductor goods within the scope of the proposal submitted by the Applicant
   from Financial Year 2022-23 onward