LONDON — Texas Instruments Inc. has a 3G mobile phone "platform" dubbed OMAP-Vox which is intended to meet the GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS standards, the company said Monday (Feb. 14). OMAP-Vox adds a modem to the OMAP architecture, TI said.
The OMAP-Vox definition covers everything from antenna to applications, TI said, including: integrated modem and applications processor, RF, analog and power management functions, protocol stack software, applications software suites, a form-factor handset reference design, and a development toolkit.To meet elevated security requirements being set by mobile operators and others OMAP-Vox includes a set of hardware accelerators supporting terminal security, transactions security and content security. TI claimed this approach is superior to software running on a processor as it reduces the time taken to produce a result. The first product in the OMAP-Vox family is the OMAPV1030 GSM/GPRS/EDGE chipset, TI said. The OMAPV1030 baseband processor is made using TI''s 90-nm manufacturing process and can support 30 frames per second video capture, playback and streaming at QCIF resolution, a megapixel digital still camera; color LCD; and interactive 2D/3D gaming. TI said it has already started sampling the OMAPV1030 with volume production expected to come in the third quarter of 2005.
TI is also developing additional OMAP-Vox chipsets to address the low-cost, feature phone and smartphone UMTS market segments. OMAP-Vox solutions for UMTS are expected to sample in 2005.
"Six of the top seven 3G handset manufacturers use TI 3G technology in over 45 models shipping today. With more than 50 percent of the UMTS semiconductor marketplace, TI has won the first wave of 3G designs," said Delfassy, senior vice president of the wireless terminals business unit, in a statement.