Wipro announces Bluetooth product qualification

BlueWave Hardware Baseband Controller, the baseband
controller core for the Bluetooth short-range wireless standard developed by
Wipro Technologies, has recently been awarded Bluetooth qualification from the
Bluetooth Qualification Body (BQB).

The Bluetooth qualification is mandatory for manufacturers to
use the official Bluetooth logo and trademark. The program enforces a consistent
standard for implementing the Bluetooth wireless technology and is important
because successful qualification implies assured interoperability with different
solutions and vendors. Wipro’s qualification testing was performed in
conjunction with CeteCom In. (www.cetecom.com),
recognized BQB.

The qualification criteria demanded protocol conformance
tests, interoperability tests, compliance declarations and documentation reviews
as defined in the Bluetooth Qualification Program Reference Document (PRD),
released by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group’s Bluetooth Qualification
Association (BQA). The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is a consortium that
maintains the Bluetooth standards and has some 2,000 members.

As cutting edge technology, the solutions providers with the
promise of delivering a competitive time-to-market advantage, Wipro has an
updated portfolio of Intellectual Property (IP) blocks for the networking and
wireless markets. Wipro’s Bluetooth Baseband and Protocol software solutions
belong to Wipro’s IP repository and can be leveraged for Wipro’s custom
design projects, or licensed by customers to gain a vital time-to-market
advantage.

The BlueWave Hardware Baseband Controller is compliant with
the latest (Version 1.1) Bluetooth specification. The core provides a
configurable interface to a standard Bluetooth radio module and has been
successfully tested with various third-party radio chipsets for
interoperability. The BlueWave Baseband Core also interfaces to a CVSD/PCM voice
CODEC as well as to an ARM7TDMI processor via the Advanced System Bus (ASB).

Wipro’s Bluetooth core is available in synthesizable source
code. The foundry independent design can be targeted to any library and
technology for easy integration into ASICs. This low gate count core combines
modular architecture, robust design flows and extensive verification and is
complemented by the Wipro’s BlueWave Software Protocol Stack and application
profiles, to form a comprehensive Bluetooth solution. Wipro’s portfolios for
Bluetooth IP locks have already been licensed to multiple customers in the US
and Japan.

Sony President visits Wipro

In another news, Kunitake Ando, President and COO, Sony
Corporation recently visited Wipro. Ando, was on a special visit to Bangalore to
get a first hand knowledge of the strengths of the Indian IT industry and was
received by Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro Corporation and Shrredhara Shetty,
Representative Director, Wipro Japan KK-a Wipro subsidiary in Japan, among
others.

During his visit to Wipro, Ando was given a presentation on
the strengths of the Indian IT industry and the breadth and depth of Wipro’s
technology expertise in providing customer focused IT solutions. A demonstration
of human-machine interface software developed by Wipro for a large European car
manufacturer was also demonstrated to Ando.

Ando was accompanied by J Aiko, Advisor, Sony Corporation; T
Ishii, MD, Sony India; Nagata, MD, Sony Marketing, Asia Pacific; Takeyari, GM,
Software Products, Mobile Network, Sony Corp H Kawano, Manager, COO Office, Sony
Corp; H Otsuka, President, Broadband Network Center; Dr A Takeuchi, GM,
Technology Alliance Department, Broadband Network Center, Sony Corp and S Prasad,
Division Manager, Software Architecture Division (SARD), Sony India.