Bengaluru-based Morphing Machines has been selected by DRDO for a formal evaluation of its REDEFINE reconfigurable SoC for a software-defined radio application in an Indian defence platform. The evaluation, spanning six months, will test REDEFINE's ability to implement multiple waveforms on a single hardware platform without requiring separate processor boards per waveform. A successful evaluation outcome could lead to the first indigenous semiconductor device designed into a production Indian defence system.
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2026-10-12
Morphing Machines has announced that its REDEFINE reconfigurable processor SoC has been selected by the Defence Research and Development Organisation for a formal evaluation programme targeting a software-defined radio application within an ongoing Indian defence electronics platform development. The selection follows extended engagement between Morphing Machines and DRDO over the past two years during which the company demonstrated REDEFINE's ability to implement diverse signal processing waveforms through software configuration of its reconfigurable compute fabric rather than requiring separate fixed-function hardware boards per waveform. The formal evaluation, which will run over approximately six months, is a critical gate in the defence procurement process: a successful outcome would place REDEFINE on the path to inclusion in a production Indian defence system, which would mark the first time an indigenous Indian semiconductor device has been designed into a production military platform at this level of signal processing complexity.
Software-defined radio systems implement communication waveforms, modulation schemes, and frequency plans in software running on a programmable hardware platform rather than in fixed analogue circuitry. This gives SDR systems the ability to adapt to new communication standards, operate across multiple frequency bands, and implement electronic warfare functions by updating their software rather than replacing hardware, which is both cost-effective and tactically flexible. The challenge for SDR implementations is finding hardware that is programmable enough to support diverse waveforms but fast and power-efficient enough to implement real-time signal processing at the data rates that modern military radios require. General-purpose CPUs are too slow for the compute-intensive signal processing. FPGAs are programmable but power-hungry and require long reconfiguration times between waveforms. REDEFINE's coarse-grained reconfigurable array architecture is specifically suited to this problem, delivering performance competitive with FPGAs at lower power and with faster reconfiguration times that allow waveform switching in operational scenarios.
The six-month DRDO evaluation involves implementing a defined set of waveforms including specific military communication standards on REDEFINE evaluation hardware, demonstrating real-time processing performance at specified data rates, measuring power consumption under operational workloads, and validating the ease and speed of waveform switching under software control. Morphing Machines will provide DRDO engineers with evaluation hardware, a waveform development SDK, and technical support throughout the evaluation period. The success criteria include quantitative performance and power targets as well as qualitative assessments of the software development environment, the maturity of the company's support capability, and the production readiness of the chip in terms of available supply quantities and yield. DRDO will also assess whether the domestic origin of REDEFINE meets the indigenisation criteria specified in the defence platform programme's procurement terms.
A positive DRDO evaluation outcome would be transformative for Morphing Machines beyond the immediate revenue opportunity from the initial defence platform design win. It would establish the REDEFINE chip as a proven and trusted component in the Indian defence electronics supply chain, opening doors to other DRDO programmes and to defence PSU manufacturers that follow DRDO evaluation results in their component selection decisions. It would also provide a high-credibility reference for the company's commercial 5G and industrial markets, where customers value defence-validated reliability as a proxy for product quality and company longevity. Morphing Machines has indicated that the company is prepared to invest in production scaling and defence qualification testing beyond the evaluation stage if the initial results are positive, and it is in discussions with defence electronics contract manufacturers about a domestic production supply chain for REDEFINE-based subsystems.
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