Product category: Design Services
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 August 2001
TI sets up
Independent OMAP Technology Centres
Texas Instruments has announced a worldwide initiative that extends development support and training capabilities for TI's OMAP processing platform
The new network of TI-licensed companies, called Independent OMAP technology Centres, will enable wireless handset manufacturers to rapidly take to market advanced and differentiated 2.5G and 3G wireless products based on TI's OMAP architecture, and allow software developers to quickly create multimedia-rich applications such as streaming video, video conferencing and high-fidelity audio.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 August 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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TI has contracted with the first two Independent OMAP Technology Centres, BSQUARE and Productivity Systems (PSI), to accelerate development efforts for select wireless handset manufacturers and application developers.
'OMAP technology has become the de facto standard for 2.5G and 3G wireless applications, and Independent OMAP Technology Centres give wireless handset manufacturers and application developers a very powerful tool for delivering advanced OMAP products to market quickly', said Alain Mutricy, general manager of TI's OMAP platform.
'Independent OMAP Technology Centres greatly extend our development support capabilities by bringing together a variety of hardware, software and systems integration expertise, giving customers access to an entire palette of current and future OMAP development technologies'.
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Independent OMAP Technology Centres provide wireless handset manufacturers and developers access to a broad range of wireless system expertise, including systems integration, OMAP development training, and OMAP support products like reference designs and compilers.
Operating system support is available for Microsoft's Windows CE, symbian OS and other familiar high-level operating systems.
BSQUARE and PSI bring extensive system integration, OS system expertise, training and product support to 2.5G and 3G wireless handset manufacturers and OMAP developers.
'Our goal is to get our customers' multimedia-rich smart devices to market quickly', said Scott Bufkin, vice president of professional engineering services of BSQUARE.
'As an Independent OMAP Technology Centre, we can use our extensive Windows embedded expertise, products and services to create unparalleled OMAP solutions'.
'Independent OMAP Technology Centres provide wireless handset manufacturers and OMAP developers immediate access to a comprehensive community of development technologies', said Ken Milburn, president of PSI.
'By giving customers a complete set of integration and development services, we will enable the rapid mass market development of new OMAP technology-based products'.
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