Texas Instruments opens 3G wireless center in Bangalore

BANGALORE: Texas Instruments India (TII) has set up a third generation

wireless center in Bangalore. According to the newly appointed TII managing

director Biswadeep Mitra, the center would build both DSP (digital signal

processing) software (infrastructure and applications) and hardware (integrated

DSP platform) solutions for the exploding wireless market. "We will develop

strategic partnerships with key players who can develop and deploy solutions

optimized for our OMAP (Open Multimedia Applications Platform)," he added.

TII will scout for such partnerships among both the industry and universities.

Texas Instruments’ OMAP has been adopted by major manufacturers such as

Nokia, Ericsson, Sony, Microsoft, Symbian and Handspring. According to the

company, almost two out of every three cellular phones present today use TI’s

DSPs, ASICs, microcontrollers and memories.

On the future plans of TII, Dr Mitra said that the company would focus on

building integrated semiconductor and software solutions for end-equipment such

as Internet audio players, cable modems, digital subscriber lines, IP telephony,

digital still cameras etc. He added that TII would be increasing the team

strength by 50 per cent during 2001.