Philips Innovation Campus (PIC), Bangalore is a division of Philips Electronics India Limited, which is owned 96% by Royal Philips Electronics N.V., The Netherlands. It was established in August 1996, with the objective of meeting the growing need for high-quality, cost-effective software development capacity within the Philips organization. From a share of 8% of the total software resource of Philips in 1998, PIC's share has now gone up and is around 20%
Working at Philips Innovation Campus are over 950 of the industry's finest professionals, using state-of-the-art software engineering paradigms and platforms including real-time systems, component-based software engineering, multi-threaded architecture and ASIC design methodologies in deep sub-micron technologies to drive the creation of tomorrow's products and services.
PIC is an ISO 9001/TickIT, SEI CMM SM Level 5 company and has emerged as a critical partner in the development of strategic and futuristic technologies for Philips worldwide.
PIC has built-up extensive know-how and expertise in the software engineering and technology domains relevant to its business. Its software expertise is primarily in the areas of embedded and information system engineering, architecture design, programming and testing. The IC design expertise is in the areas of logic and circuit design. In addition, competencies in the areas of project management, requirement engineering and quality assurance have been established to offer customers, products and services of the highest quality, at the fastest time-to-market and the lowest cost of ownership.
Philips Medical Systems
Supporting Philips Medical Systems with software development for its range of products is the Philips Medical Systems Software Competence Centre.
PMS provides end-to-end solutions, which extend over requirement definition, architecture, design, development and testing of software components for various medical modalities. Execution of projects is typically a mix of on on-site and offshore effort.
Philips Research
Philips Research India - Bangalore (PRI-B) is the 5th group of Sector Information and Software Technology (IST), of Nat. Lab in Eindhoven. The group name is Design Technology for Triple S: Software, Silicon and System (DeTriS). The Research Group, functionally reports to the Sector Information and Software Technology, and operates as a division of Philips Innovation Campus (PIC).
Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
The mission of Philips IP&S is to create a strong Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) portfolio for Philips and to generate maximum returns from its intellectual property. Philips places great value in protecting its innovations through IPRs portfolio that includes patents, trademarks, designs, domain names and copyrights.
At Bangalore, IP&S commenced operations in June 2002 with strength of six Patent Searchers, as a sub-division of Search Group at Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Philips Applied Technologies
Philips Applied Technologies - Blr is capable of executing complete, innovative electronic systems locally in Bangalore including delivery of prototype quantities of these systems. Selected application domains include Digital Watermarking, Optical license defense, Channel formatting, Wireless.
Philips Software
Philips Software is an independent software vendor (ISV) specializing in providing advanced audio, video, multimedia and connectivity solutions to manufacturers of mobile and portable equipment. It does this by developing Philips’ world-class multimedia know-how that has been built up within the company over many years. The software solutions are available as individual products or as multimedia suites, offering a great opportunity in some of the most crucial and difficult areas for mobile and portable applications. Philips Software’s portfolio grows continuously and is highly versatile, being adaptable for a wide range of products and uses.