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Follow UsBANGALORE: Texas
Instruments Incorporated (TI) and Tata
Elxsi Ltd (TEL) today announced their collaboration on an end-to-end base
band demonstration system for IEEE 802.16e infrastructure products, enabling
manufacturers to roll out 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 WiMax solution into their own
products.
The 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard was approved late last year by the IEEE
task group for Mobile wireless MAN, and most analysts expect certified products
to be available in 2007. To meet this deadline and gain market traction,
manufacturers will need to develop products and work towards certification.
TI recently announced its own 802.16e infrastructure solution for wireless
applications as a complete signal chain solution, 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.
The design will enable all physical layer processing required for a 10 MHz,
multi-antenna base band solution with multiple input/multiple output (MIMO)
transmission across a breadth of air interfaces. TI's portfolio of WiMAX
products allows OEMs to offer 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.
"Working with software partners such as TATA Elxsi enhances the global
WiMAX ecosystem centered around TI's solution. This combined solution can help
OEMs to quickly develop low cost WiMax equipment, enabling wireless
operators in emerging markets, such as India, to cost-effectively increase
teledensity", said Dr Bobby Mitra, Managing Director Texas Instruments
India".
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 System will incorporate the Tata Elxsi 802.16e MAC Software IP. TEL also
brings in Product Design, integration and customization experience along with
domain expertise in the embedded wireless space, to enable an optimized solution
on the TI platform.
The software components, available as a part of this demonstration system,
will allow OEMs to select and optimize specific pieces of the software for their
own implementation, reducing product development cycle time and allows OEMs to
customize the software and to add their own intellectual property.
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 an optimized
design," said Madhukar Dev, managing director and chief executive officer
Tata Elxsi.
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