Tata Elxsi and Renesas Electronics have announced a new collaboration on a design centre in Bangalore that will develop targeted products for electric vehicles (EV).
The new Next Generation EV Innovation Center (NEVIC) was opened in January 2022.
With rapid adoption of EVs in emerging markets such as India, products which offer “key building blocks for scalability and re-usability while delivering reliable performance and offering room for technology customisation are critical,” the two companies said.
They will bring together their deep domain expertise, intellectual property, and assets to the NEVIC and collaborate to create reference designs and solution accelerators for critical EV subsystems like Battery Management Systems and Motor Control Units, among others.
With the electric vehicle market, especially the Light EV segment, at an inflection point, the companies aim to provide key enablers for the market, starting with India and expanding globally to optimize development time and effort.
‘’We are excited to continue our collaboration with Renesas, a market leader in semiconductors for integrated, sophisticated and reliable solutions for the electrification domain,” said Shaju S, VP and head of transportation, Tata Elxsi. “Our customers will undoubtedly benefit from the proven chipsets and support system of Renesas as it will definitely help us in developing cutting edge and futuristic solutions which the industry demands. Markets like India are especially sensitive to cost, and these solutions will help cut down product development risks, costs and greatly improve time-to-market. In addition, we also bring industry-proven solutions and services for ‘productisation’, testing, calibration and downstream integration, which will benefit customers in rapid NPI and time-to-market.
Through NEVIC, Tata Elxsi and Renesas will support the acceleration of eMobility, particularly the two-wheel and light EV segments, assisting customers in overcoming time to market and technology complexity.