Ineda MCU for wearables/IoT priced at $3.50
These were previously called Dhanush-Micro and were announced back in April 2014 as being dual-core always-on MCU for sensors based on the microAptiv MIPS core from Imagination Technologies with a typical application of being an Linux-based or RTOS-based smartwatch.
Some 20 months later and Ineda claims the I3 offers 29uA/MHz power consumption in active mode and has priced the chips at $3.50 each in 10,000 unit quantities. The price includes licenses for software provided with the chip.
Ineda did not indicate what manufacturing process technology its SoCs are implemented in, but the company is backed by Qualcomm Ventures, Imagination, Walden International, Samsung and UMC Capital.
The I3 series SoC achieves more than 30 days of battery life on a 300mAH battery and target applications for the chips include fitness bands, smart sensors, thermostat and medical applications. The chip includes two MIPS cores with maximum clock frequencies of 240MHz and 80MHz respectively, cryptographic accelerators, TFT LCD controller and MP3 decoder.
"Ineda has also developed a complete software development kit (SDK) both for wearable and IoT applications, which reduces customer design cycles from months to a few weeks," said Ritesh Tyagi, senior vice president of product strategy at Ineda, in a statement.
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