Wipro, austriamicrosystems tie up to combine Bluetooth expertise

NEW DELHI: Wipro Technologies, a global IT services division of Wipro Ltd.,

has announced a chip partnership with austriamicrosystems, a company dealing in

mixed analog/digital ASICs offering a broad range of customer solutions for the

automotive, communication and industrial markets.

Under the terms of the partnership, Wipro and austriamicrosystems will

combine their Bluetooth expertise to jointly produce and market chipsets for the

emerging Bluetooth wireless market. This partnership moves Wipro up the customer

value chain and reinforces its position as a leading provider of technology

solutions and product realization services for the wireless and connectivity

markets.

The alliance with austriamicrosystems marks Wipro's foray into the Bluetooth

product space and further augments Wipro's capability to offer its customers

with a total Bluetooth solution, thus becoming a one-stop-shop solutions

provider for the Bluetooth market. The alliance provides austriamicrosystems

access to Wipro's pre-designed and pre-verified, ready-to-deploy IP's in

Bluetooth to get a crucial time-to-market advantage.

austriamicrosystems' Bluetooth radio will be integrated with Wipro's

Intellectual Properties in Bluetooth Baseband to provide wireless system vendors

and product companies with a composite Bluetooth application-specific integrated

circuit (ASIC) or application-specific standard product (ASSP). The ASICs/ ASSPs

will be manufactured at austriamicrosystems' independent foundry and supported

by design engineers and foundry engineering teams from both companies. Wipro's

BQB qualified BlueWave family of Bluetooth Intellectual Property cores and

software includes the BlueWave Baseband Controller synthesizable core as well as

the BlueWave Software Stack and BlueWave Profiles.