Texas Instruments and Tata
Elxsi Deliver 802.16e Demonstration System to Support Emerging Mobile
WiMAX Infrastructure Market
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PRNewswire
June 12, 2006
Complete Signal Chain Solution
Enables Quick Deployment of Advanced WiMAX Products
DALLAS, -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) and Tata
Elxsi announce their collaboration on an end-to-end base band
demonstration system for IEEE 802.16e infrastructure products, enabling
manufacturers to quickly roll out flexible base station solutions
targeting the mobile WiMAX market. This new design combines both the
hardware and software required for system implementation, including a
fully integrated Media Access Controller (MAC), allowing customers to
incorporate the complete solution into their own products. For more
information, please visit http://www.ti.com/wimaxwi.
The 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard was approved late last year and most
analysts expect certified products to be available in 2007. To meet this
deadline and gain market traction, manufacturers will need to quickly
develop products and work towards certification.
TI recently announced its own 802.16e infrastructure solution for
wireless applications, including software, analog and RF products, to
support the emerging mobile WiMAX industry. Providing a digital solution
that integrates MAC capabilities completes the base station solution.
This offering from TI will allow existing original equipment
manufacturers (OEM) an easy path to migrate to mobility solutions for
WiMAX, while providing new manufacturers a quick entry into the IEEE
802.16 market. The design will enable all physical layer processing
required for a 10 MHz, TDD, multi-antenna base band solution with
multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) transmission across a breadth of
air interfaces. TI's robust portfolio of WiMAX products allows OEMs to
offer a wide variety of products that can be matched to service
providers' features requirements and deployment roadmaps.
"At TI, we understand manufacturers' needs for deploying products
quickly to meet the demands of emerging markets, like mobile WiMAX,"
said Sandeep Kumar, worldwide strategic marketing manager with TI's
Communications Infrastructure group. "This 802.16e system from TI and
Tata Elxsi offers OEMs a sensible and cost-effective alternative for
quickly developing infrastructure products while enabling them to
customize their solutions to best meet service provider demand."
The system will incorporate Mercury Computer's MTI-203 Advanced
Mezzanine Card (AMC) for WiMAX, anchored with three TI TMS320TCI6482
DSPs and a supporting compute node to create a WiMAX infrastructure base
band solution. The MTI-203 AMC card can plug into Serial RapidIO based
Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (TCA) carrier cards, as well as
MicroTCA and AdvancedTCA chassis that support Serial RapidIO (PICMG 3.5)
across the backplane. Advanced TCA systems, such as Mercury's leading
edge Ensemble2 system, allow "mix and match" across a variety of
different processing nodes and architectures to enable a complete
functional system.
The software components, available as a part of this demonstration
system, will allow OEMs to select and optimize specific pieces of the
design in their own implementation, reducing product development time
and allowing them to customize the software and add their own
intellectual property. This level of flexibility is important to
manufacturers who want to differentiate their product offering from
their competitors.
"We understand the challenges manufacturers face when developing
products for emerging markets, and the difficulties of working with
hardware and software components from a variety of vendors to work
together in a optimized design," said Madhukar Dev, managing director
and chief executive officer Tata Elxsi. "In order to jump start this
market, TI and Tata Elxsi are working towards an aggressive business
model with this system. We hope to make it very easy for interested OEMs
to be able to use this hardware and software, and get to production
faster."
About Tata Elxsi
Tata Elxsi Limited, the Product Design arm of the USD 22 Billion
Tata Group, provides world class design services and solutions across
the product design lifecycle to industry sectors such as automotive,
consumer electronics, media, semiconductor, scientific instrumentation,
networking and wireless, helping product manufacturers reduce
development costs and time-to-market.
This is enabled by core technology and domain expertise in VLSI design,
DSP, Wireless, Multimedia, Networking and Communication, a rich industry
experience of over 15 years and SEI CMMI Level 5 certified processes for
hardware and embedded software development.
Headquartered in Bangalore, the company is supported by a team of over
2000 engineers, technology and domain experts, state-of-the-art global
development centers in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram
in India, and a network of over 20 international offices including USA,
UK, Germany, France, Korea, Taiwan and Japan that assures easy access to
the company's global customers.
Tata Elxsi is a public stock company traded in the Indian stock
exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.tataelxsi.com
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog
technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing
requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company includes the
Educational & Productivity Solutions business. TI is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more
than 25 countries.
Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the
symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at
http://www.ti.com .
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