Tata Elxsi announces LTE Femto/Pico reference solution for next generation SoC platforms

Announces new Tier-1 OEM win to deliver LTE Femtocell solution

Bangalore -- October 15, 2010– Tata Elxsi today announced the availability of its optimized LTE Femto/Pico eNodeB solution compliant to 3GPP Release 8 and Femto Forum specifications. The Tata Elxsi solution supports industry standard channel bandwidths and MIMO configurations, and has been optimized to provide market-leading performance and reduced latency.

Tata Elxsi announced another Tier-1 OEM win for a complete residential LTE Femto NodeB reference solution. This includes Layer 1 software and complete L2/L3 protocol stack software from Tata Elxsi.

The latest customer win adds to a client roster for Tata Elxsi LTE software that includes network equipment providers, original design manufacturers and radio equipment vendors located in North America, Europe, Japan and South Asia.

The LTE Femto / Picocell reference of Tata Elxsi's design comprises 3GPP Release 8 compliant L2/L3 stack and PHY layer integrated with Radio. This solution offers a ready platform for OEMs to get to market quickly, with minimized risk and cost.

The entire software stack has been architected in a highly modular fashion to offer flexibility to OEMs to make modifications to specific sections of the stack with ease, if required. The L1-L2 interfaces are fully compliant to Femto Forum specifications.

This architecture developed by Tata Elxsi allows for seamless migration to next generation integrated SoC platforms targeting LTE small cell markets from leading semiconductor vendors. "Effective use of on-chip hardware accelerators and customization of Linux kernels for real time response ensures significant performance and cost benefits as compared to other solutions", said Rajagopalan R., Chief Wireless Architect at Tata Elxsi.

"The latest LTE Femto NodeB design win with a Tier-1 OEM underlines Tata Elxsi’s focus and commitment in delivering industry-leading LTE eNodeB stacks and integrated solutions. As active members of the Femto Forum, we will continue to evolve the Femto architecture and interfaces in line with the Forum recommendations. Further, as part of our product roadmap we are committed to support our customers with feature enhancements and updates to provide differentiated performance. Customers can leverage Tata Elxsi software, services and integration expertise to enable early product deployment into the rapidly growing Femto and Picocell market", said Nitin Pai, VP – Marketing, Tata Elxsi.

Tata Elxsi is a gold sponsor at the 4GWorld 2010 in Chicago and will be demonstrating its LTE reference solutions at booth #117 ,October 18 – 21, 2010.

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.