Huge global vote of confidence in Hyderabad-based Ineda, for their low-power wearable processors

09th April 2014
Huge  global vote of confidence in Hyderabad-based Ineda, for their  low-power wearable processors

Hyderabad April 8, 2014: Leader in low power systems on a chip --  Ineda  Systems --,  has unveiled the Dhanush family of Wearable Processing Units, which support a large range of wearable devices including fitness bands, smart watches, glasses, athletic video recorders and the Internet of Things. The Dhanush WPUs will enable a new industry milestone for always-on battery life of up to one month.
The Dhanush WPU is powered by Ineda’s patent pending Hierarchical Computing architecture. Dhanush is sampling to tier-one customers now, and will be available in volume production in the second half of 2014.
Ineda  has just  raised $17 million in funding by Walden-Riverwood Ventures and  co-investors Samsung  and  Qualcomm  -- a huge vote of confidence for the innovation being offered by this Indian   developer.
Says  Dasaradha Gude, CEO of Ineda Systems:  “The Ineda engineering team in India has developed an innovative, low-power architecture designed specifically for wearable devices. The Dhanush family of WPUs offers better power consumption by an order of magnitude than smart phone processors that are currently being retrofitted for wearable devices.”
“The smart phone market grew substantially with the advent of smartphone-specific dedicated application processors. Dhanush WPU SoCs will enable a similar transformation in the wearable market segment,” Gude adds
“Ineda Systems is bringing the first wearable-specific chipset design to market,” said Chris Jones, VP and principal analyst at Canalys. “Strict power constraints are the greatest technological challenge for smart wearables, and Ineda is the first company taking this challenge truly seriously at the SoC level with Dhanush. Always-on sensor functionality is also critical and inherent to its design."

The Dhanush family of SoCs comes in four different tiers that are designed for specific implementations:
- Dhanush Advanced: Designed to include all the features required in a high-end wearable device – rich graphic and user interface – along with the capability to run a mobile class operating system such as Android.
- Dhanush Optima: This is a subset of the Dhanush Advanced and retains all the same features except the capability of running a mobile class operating system. It offers enough compute and memory footprint required to run mid-range wearable devices.
-Dhanush Micro: Designed for use in low-end smartwatches that have increased compute and memory footprint. This contains a sensor hub CPU subsystem that takes care of the always-on functionality of wearable devices.
-Dhanush Nano: Designed for simple wearable devices that require microcontroller-class compute and memory footprint.