IndieSemiC, an Ahmedabad-based fabless chip design company, has designed and developed the ISC-VEGA-SOM, an indigenous System-on-Module that brings together C-DAC’s VEGA Thejas32 processor and a FCC, CE certified LoRa wireless module on a single board. The module was developed under the Industry Support Centre, an initiative of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) supported by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and was launched today at SEMICON INDIA 2026.
The VEGA Thejas32 is one of India’s own indigenously designed processors, developed by C-DAC. By combining this processor with LoRa wireless connectivity on one module, IndieSemiC has created a single, ready-to-use building block that device makers can plug directly into their products, instead of sourcing and integrating the processor and the wireless module separately.
A pluggable version of this module, called the ISC-VEGA-SOM-NIC, has also been developed as a LoRaWAN network card. It works with both single-phase and three-phase versions of C-DAC’s Smart Energy Meters, and can also be used in other applications such as gas meters, water meters, and Smart City projects that need dependable long-range wireless connectivity. The design is simple and modular, making it easier to maintain and upgrade over time.
Speaking on the development, Jinal Shah, Founder & CMO, IndieSemiC, said, “For a long time, the conversation around India’s semiconductor progress has stayed focused on the chip itself. What SEMICON India 2026, with its theme of ‘Silicon to Systems,’ rightly points to is that the real impact comes when that chip is turned into something ready to be used, that is, a complete module that a smart meter or a city project can simply plug in and run. That is what we set out to do with ISC-VEGA-SOM: take an Indian-made processor and build it into a working system, with the wireless connectivity already in place. We see this as a small but real example of what ‘silicon to systems’ should mean in practice.”
