Peak XV Companions-backed fabless semiconductor startup Mindgrove Applied sciences stated on Sunday that it launched what it claimed is India’s first business high-performance SoC (system on chip). Named Safe IoT, it’s designed for IoT gadgets and can doubtless price 30% lower than different chips in comparable segments.
The startup, supported by IITM Pravartak Applied sciences Basis and incubated within the IIT-Madras Incubation Cell, stated the chip has had a profitable MPW tape-out (the silicon trade time period for prototyping) on the 28nm node, and that reference boards can be out there for authentic gear producers to check out it within the coming weeks.
The Chennai-based startup stated the chip will enable native firms to make use of an Indian SoC of their merchandise and assist scale back the price of their gadgets, with out compromising on high-end options.
Safe IoT is a high-performance microcontroller clocked at 700 MHz. The corporate stated it’s the solely Indian chip that’s commercially out there on this phase.
The chip is designed to offer programmability, flexibility, safety and superior computing energy for controlling purposes on a variety of linked good gadgets, it stated.
“This chip can management every thing from wearables like smartwatches to good metropolis gadgets like linked electrical energy, water and fuel meters to linked dwelling gadgets like good locks, followers, audio system, in addition to EV battery administration methods and management methods, amongst others,” the corporate stated in an announcement.
Along with promoting the chip, Mindgrove will supply design assist to Indian manufacturers to speed up innovation and scale of manufacturing in India.
“India consumes over a billion chips a 12 months and anyplace between 10 and 50 million of them may be changed by Safe IoT. Additional, there may be widespread demand for microchips worldwide, and we anticipate international patrons to be excited a few new choice from India,” stated Shashwath TR, chief government and cofounder of Mindgrove Applied sciences.
The pandemic revealed the vast hole between high-end and low-end gamers within the embedded methods house, with the latter prioritising price and quantity over the chip’s precise efficiency, Shashwath stated. “This led us to got down to design chips that focus on the center market.”
Safe IoT gives a variety of options and is meant for use with naked steel code or any microcontroller RTOS (real-time working system), thus opening up arenas like visitors management methods, autonomous autos, medical gear, and many others., Mindgrove stated.
Mindgrove was based by Shashwath and Sharan Srinivas J and is backed by Peak XV Companions, Speciale Make investments and Whiteboard Capital.
