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Well-connected startup Ineda Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Hyderabad, India) has revealed details of its Dhanush family of wearable processor units (WPUs) and announced funding of $17 million raised from Samsung, Qualcomm and established investor Imagination Technologies Group plc amongst others.
Ineda, founded in 2010, has been developing a system-on-chip low-power processor based on MIPS and PowerVR cores licensed from Imagination and suitable for wearable applications such as smart watches, health monitors, and fitness devices as well as the Internet of Things.
Industry veteran Dasaradha Gude leads the company as CEO. The board of directors includes Lip Bu-Tan, CEO of Cadence Design Systems Inc., and Krishna Yarlagadda, president of Imagination Inc. Yarlagadda was CEO of Hellosoft before it was acquired by Imagination Technologies in 2010. The board is chaired by Sanjay Jha, a former COO of Qualcomm and now CEO of Globalfoundries Inc. The company was founded by Balaji Kanigicherla, who now serves as CTO.
From sensor-hub only up to graphically rich apps. Ineda advocates running software at the level of performance for which it is optimized. Source: Ineda.
As well as revealing its latest round of funding the company has announced the Dhanush WPU, which makes use of something Ineda calls hierarchical computing. Ineda plans to begin producing its WPU in the second half of 2014 and said it will offer multiple SoC variants that correspond to specific classes of wearable devices. Development kits are available for evaluation today for selected customers.
The hierarchical computing architecture, implemented using MIPS-based microprocessor cores and PowerVR mobile graphics and video processors, enable the Dhanush WPU to offer an always-on battery life of up to one month.
The Dhanush family of SoCs also supports a scalable range of connectivity from Bluetooth LE through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to address a range of applications.
Hierarchical computing allows applications and tasks to run at various optimized performance and memory footprints. At the lowest level is an "always-on" sensor hub optimized for wearable devices, which can be used to wake the processor up and step up through levels of performance and power consumption.
Ineda illustrates this with the example of a three-layer hierarchy while its family of products deploy one, two and three-level hierarchies Dhanush.
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