Texas Instruments and Tata Elxsi Deliver 802.16e Demonstration System to Support Emerging Mobile WiMAX Infrastructure Market

Texas Instruments and Tata Elxsi Deliver 802.16e Demonstration System to Support Emerging Mobile WiMAX Infrastructure Market

June 13, 2006

Complete Signal Chain Solution Enables Quick Deployment of Advanced WiMAX Products

    LAS VEGAS, June 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Texas
Instruments Incorporated [NYSE: TXN] (TI) and Tata Elxsi
today 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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    For more information, please contact:

     Marcia Barnett
     Texas Instruments
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Nitin Pai
     Tata Elxsi
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

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