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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2006-)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 October 2006
Technology centres go beyond the
cellular
Texas Instruments is extending its successful OMAP Technology Centre programme to include support for its WLAN, Bluetooth technology and mobile TV solutions.
To ease the development and design of mobile phones with multiple wireless technologies, Texas Instruments is extending its successful OMAP Technology Centre (OTC) programme to include support for its WLAN, Bluetooth technology and mobile TV solutions TI's OTCs provide handset manufacturers and developers access to a broad range of wireless systems expertise adding their value and products on top of TI's wireless solutions
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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By extending its OTC programme to noncellular solutions, TI is further speeding time to market for handset manufacturers who offer advanced 2.5G and 3G devices based on TI's OMAP platform and OMAP-Vox processors.
OTCs can now become authorised to provide support for TI's noncellular wireless technologies, including the WiLink WLAN platform, BlueLink Bluetooth solutions and the Hollywood mobile TV single chip.
The first OTCs to become authorised for this extended programme are Sasken, authorised for BlueLink solutions, and TapRoot Systems, authorised for WiLink mobile WLAN platforms.
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"Bluetooth and WLAN are must-haves for next generation handset designs".
"The extension of the successful OMAP Technology Centre programme to TI's noncellular wireless platforms will enable manufacturers to scale their operations to quickly deliver new multi-radio handsets with development support from TI's ecosystem partners like Sasken and TapRoot", said Marc Cetto, General Manager of TI's Mobile Connectivity Solutions.
Members of the OMAP Technology Centre programme who work with TI's OMAP platform and OMAP-Vox processors can now become authorised to provide their services on top of TI's noncellular solutions, facilitating a system-level approach to implementing complex multi-radio mobile devices.
The first two OTC members to achieve this designation, Sasken and Taproot, have extensive experience with TI's OMAP platform in supporting handset manufacturers with the design and development of new mobile devices.
"Sasken is excited to be one of the first members of TI's extended OMAP Technology Centre programme".
"Sasken has deep experience with TI's OMAP platform and is now authorised for TI's BlueLink Bluetooth solutions".
"We are also working to become the first OTC authorised across the majority of TI's wireless portfolio to deliver complete system support for the most connected mobile phones in the market", said Rajiv Mody, CEO of Sasken.
"TapRoot is proud to be the first OTC authorised for TI's WiLink mobile WLAN platform".
"Leveraging our expertise in WLAN, the OMAP platform and support for Symbian OS, Windows Mobile and Linux, manufacturers can get new mobile WLAN-enabled smartphones to market faster with TI's WiLink single-chip solutions", said Hugh Thomas, CEO of TapRoot Systems.
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