GSAS Micro Systems inaugurates new manufacturing and expanded R&D facility in Doddaballapur

GSAS Micro Systems Pvt. Ltd. today inaugurated its new manufacturing and expanded R&D facility in Doddaballapur, Bengaluru Rural, marking a significant step in the company’s journey from embedded engineering and technology integration into a deeper in-house product-development and manufacturing footprint in Karnataka.

Located in the Doddaballapur 3rd Phase Industrial Area, the new facility brings GSAS’s product development, engineering, manufacturing and project activities together under one roof. It will serve as a working hub for hardware manufacturing, assembly, integration, quality testing, R&D and new-product development.

The expansion comes as Karnataka seeks to translate its established strengths in electronic design and semiconductor R&D into a broader electronics manufacturing ecosystem. The Karnataka Digital Economy Mission says the state contributes 10% of India’s electronics output, nearly 40% of India’s electronic design output and more than 22% of national electronics exports, while hosting more than 100 fabless semiconductor design companies.

For GSAS, the Doddaballapur facility is both a business milestone and the culmination of a much older ambition. The company’s founder has carried the vision of building a dedicated electronics manufacturing base since the 1990s. Bringing that ambition to life in Karnataka gives the company a permanent home for developing and building more of its own products while expanding the engineering infrastructure available for customer-specific programmes.

The project also reflects the role of Karnataka’s industry-led electronics ecosystem in creating a path for local electronics companies to grow. GSAS acknowledges the Consortium of Electronic Industries of Karnataka (CLIK) and its ESDM Cluster for helping create the Doddaballapur electronics-manufacturing ecosystem that has enabled Karnataka electronics companies to make long-term investments in product development and manufacturing. Smt. Uma Reddy, President of FKCCI, is herself a long-time electronics entrepreneur and a former President of CLIK, connecting today’s broader Karnataka industry platform with the state’s specialised electronics-industry institutions.

The new GSAS site will support the company’s Test Solutions Integration business, government project work and ODM programmes. It will also become the manufacturing base for the upcoming Genesis series of microcontroller and FPGA development boards, alongside additional GSAS products currently under development.

GSAS has historically combined electronic design tools, test and measurement, hardware development and engineering services with the development of its own hardware. The Doddaballapur site brings more of that lifecycle together physically, from engineering and product development through assembly, integration, testing and production support.

Bengaluru Rural provides an increasingly relevant setting for that expansion. Invest Karnataka identifies electrical/electronics, aerospace and automotive among the district’s major industrial sectors and lists Doddaballapur and Obadenahalli (Doddaballapura Phase 3) among its established industrial areas.

Founded in Bengaluru in 2010, GSAS Micro Systems works across India’s embedded and electronics engineering ecosystem. The company sees the Doddaballapur facility as an important foundation for GSAS Vision 2035, strengthening its ability to develop products, execute larger engineering programmes and manufacture more hardware in Karnataka.

Inside the facility

The building was laid out as a working environment for engineers rather than as a showcase. The point of putting product development, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, integration and quality testing in one building is the distance between them: a board that fails at integration can be back on the bench of the person who designed it the same morning, and a change can be built and retested without leaving the site. That loop is the reason the facility exists.

It is also the manufacturing base for the Genesis series of embedded and FPGA development kits, alongside other GSAS products still in development, which puts the build process next to the people changing the design.

GSAS published a walkthrough of the building on LinkedIn, showing those areas in use.

About GSAS Micro Systems

Founded in Bengaluru in 2010, GSAS Micro Systems Pvt. Ltd. is an embedded and electronics engineering company working across electronic design tools, test and measurement, hardware development, engineering services and global technology partnerships. GSAS supports engineering teams across the embedded-product lifecycle and develops and manufactures selected GSAS hardware and ODM products in India. Its Doddaballapur manufacturing and R&D facility brings product development, engineering, assembly, integration and quality testing together under one roof.

About CLIK

The Consortium of Electronic Industries of Karnataka (CLIK) is a Bengaluru-based, not-for-profit regional trade organisation founded in 1982 to promote a vibrant electronics industry in Karnataka. It represents electronics and allied enterprises, particularly MSMEs.

About FKCCI

The Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) is Karnataka’s apex chamber for trade, commerce and industry. Founded originally as the Mysore Chamber of Commerce in 1916, FKCCI represents businesses and industry associations across Karnataka and works on policy advocacy, enterprise development, trade and industrial growth.

Sources

• Karnataka Digital Economy Mission, Electronics System Design and Manufacturing: https://karnatakadigital.in/electronics-system-design-and-manufacturing/
• Invest Karnataka, Bengaluru Rural district profile: https://investkarnataka.co.in/our-districts/bengaluru-rural/
• Consortium of Electronic Industries of Karnataka (CLIK), About: https://clikindia.in/about.html