Tata Elxsi announces availability of LTE eNodeB Layer 1 software on Texas Instruments C66x based SoC

Optimized L1 Stack on Texas Instruments TMS320TCI6616 base station SoC and TMS320C6670 DSP integrated with Tata Elxsi L2/L3 software stack accelerates time to market for LTE systems.

Bangalore/Dallas, TX -- November 10, 2010 - Tata Elxsi, a global technology and product engineering company, today announced the availability of its market-leading LTE eNodeB Layer 1 software on the latest Texas Instruments’ Incorporated (TI) TMS320TCI6616 base station system-on-chip (SoC).

The Tata Elxsi LTE physical layer solution includes high performance L1 software on TI’s TCI6616 basestation SoC and C6670 multicore DSP, integrated with Tata Elxsi’s L2/L3 software stack providing a significant time to market advantage to customers that require LTE software used in software defined radio (SDR), mission critical, and base station applications.

Designed with a scalable architecture, the Tata Elxsi L1 software makes effective use of TI’s advanced C66x processing cores and available hardware accelerators to deliver breakthrough L1 performance with sufficient headroom to incorporate additional features.

The LTE physical layer solution is also available on the C6670 DSP and is particularly well suited for working in tandem with other wireless air interfaces and proprietary waveforms to create an efficient SDR implementation for public safety and defense markets.

“TI is very pleased to have Tata ELXSI as part of its software ecosystem and is excited to see the addition of LTE to the existing physical layers supported on TI DSPs,” said Sameer Wasson, product marketing manager, TI. “In the telecom infrastructure as well as public safety and other mission critical markets, TI expects this solution to continue to help customers accelerate their time to market with industry leading systems.”

The LTE L1 solution from Tata Elxsi, adds to its existing portfolio of Layer 1 software available on TI DSPs, including its industry leading Mobile WiMAX (802.16e) solution which is also compatible with the new TCI6616 SoC base station and C6670 multicore DSP.

“We are extremely pleased to extend our collaboration with TI in offering highly optimized Layer 1 software on the new C66x DSP generation”, explained Mr. Nitin Pai, Vice President, Marketing, Tata Elxsi. “The optimized reference solution will greatly reduce development costs, time and risks for our customers.”

Tata Elxsi’s proven expertise in wireless baseband, and experience of delivering products in telecom, defense, public safety and test and measurement markets, provides equipment manufacturers with unparalleled efficiency in the development of next generation wireless products.

About Tata Elxsi:

TATA Elxsi is a global technology services and product design company, and the embedded product design arm of the 70 Billion US$ TATA group. With operations in US, Europe and Asia, TATA Elxsi is a strategic partner to the world’s leading equipment makers and service providers.

Leveraging over 20 years of exclusive focus on wireless and communications technologies and embedded product development, TATA Elxsi enables customers with stacks, integrated solutions, and a world-class engineering team to help customers deploy carrier-class LTE, WiMAX and Femtocell products – helping reduce time-to-market, costs and risk.

TATA Elxsi’s engineering expertise and services span the entire communications ecosystem including system architecture, development and testing, product maintenance and test automation, for devices and infrastructure. For more information, please visit: http://www.tataelxsi.com.