Wipro launches design centre in Germany
By Our Convergence Bureau | 26 Jun 2002
Mumbai: Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Ltd, has inaugurated a design centre for embedded solutions at Kiel, Germany. Customers in Germany and Scandinavia, and in the growing market in northern Europe, will benefit from the Wipro Kiel Design Centre (KDC).
Says Wipro Technologies chief executive (embedded and Internet access solutions business areas) Ramesh Emani: "KDC meets the demands of companies in Germany, Scandinavia and other European countries for an even more direct customer interface. Wipro is opening KDC because demand for system-on-chip solutions (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."
KDC complements Wipro's network, representing 26 design centres and business development offices worldwide. From KDC, 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 KDC, a team of RISC processor specialists in ARM Technology will support customers directly on location in developing rapidly and fault-free 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.
Head of Wipro KDC Walter Ortmüller 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 recognises design faults in embedded projects very early on and ensures they are resolved in time.
Says Wipro Technologies chief executive (embedded and Internet access solutions business areas) Ramesh Emani: "KDC meets the demands of companies in Germany, Scandinavia and other European countries for an even more direct customer interface. Wipro is opening KDC because demand for system-on-chip solutions (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."KDC complements Wipro's network, representing 26 design centres and business development offices worldwide. From KDC, 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 KDC, a team of RISC processor specialists in ARM Technology will support customers directly on location in developing rapidly and fault-free 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.
Head of Wipro KDC Walter Ortmüller 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 recognises design faults in embedded projects very early on and ensures they are resolved in time.