Wipro opens design center in Germany

BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies has set up a design center for Embedded

Solutions at Kiel, Germany. Christened Kiel Design center, (KDC), it is expected

to directly benefit customers in Germany, Scandinavia and in the growing market

in northern Europe from the center.

Wipro chief executive, Embedded and Internet Access Solutions business areas,

Ramesh Emani, said, "The Wipro Kiel Design Center meets the demands of

companies in Germany, Scandinavia and other European countries for an even more

direct customer interface. Wipro is opening the Kiel Design Center because

demand for SoC services is growing rapidly. Increasingly providers are compelled

to release effective, compact devices onto the market in a very short space of

time. Fewer manufacturers are in a position to afford costly experiments."

The KDC complements Wipro’s network, representing 26 design centers and

business development offices worldwide. From the Kiel Centre, Wipro Technologies

can now support its European customers even more effectively in swiftly

implementing demanding embedded solution projects. Kiel commended itself as a

location due to its optimum infrastructure and transport connections by plane,

train, ferry and motorway. Customers in German-speaking countries and those in

Scandinavia, northern Europe and in the Baltics are within easy reach.

At the Wipro Kiel Design Centre (KDC), a team of RISC processor specialists

in ARM Technology will support customers directly on location in developing

rapidly and fault-free system-on-chip solutions (SoC).

The services offered by the centre will focus on SoC solutions in the areas

of PDA, intelligent mobile phones; mobile data capture units, Internet access

solutions, networking and automobile electronics. Although these mobile devices

and applications appear to be completely different from one another, they share

a common feature: their complex software, including an operating system, is

accommodated in the smallest possible space. Very frequently RISC processors

from ARM are used.

Wipro is an official partner of ARM and has accumulated extensive expert

knowledge in relation to ARM processor and supports those providing their own

solutions in rapidly preparing them for the market. The particular challenge

consists in transposing functions onto the chip, rapidly but also fault-free.

Otherwise even the smallest faults in the SoC design will lead to extremely

labour-intensive fault analysis and expensive reworking, threatening the launch

deadline.

The head of Wipro KDC, Walter Ortmuller, understands this situation from the

perspective of a long-standing SoC expert, "Many providers of highly

integrated devices work without an optimum product specification. Wipro supports

these customers in taking interesting solutions and implementing them as well as

possible."

To this end the Wipro KDC team uses tried and tested development techniques

such as ‘EagleWision’. This testing procedure recognizes design faults in

embedded projects very early on and ensures they are resolved in time.