Renesas picks Bangalore for automotive design centre

They will “bring together their domain expertise intellectual property and assets to Nevic and create reference designs and solution accelerators for electric vehicle sub-systems like battery management and motor control units,” according to Renesas. “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.”

We bring solutions and services for productisation, testing, calibration and downstream integration. These include eMobility HILS for validation and Autosar suite 4.2.2 and 4.3 for software integration,” said Tata Elxsi head of transportation Shaju S, explaining: “Markets like India are especially sensitive to cost, and these [jointly-developed] solutions will help cut down product development risks and improve time-to-market.”

Tata Elxsi provides electronics, mechanical and software development alongside other services for transportation, media, communications and healthcare markets. Incorporated in 1989, it has been working on vehicle electrification for more than 12 years.