Wipro Unveils Turnkey Semiconductor Service Framework For Design and Production of Low Cost, Reliable RF Integrated System-on-Chips

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Wipro Technologies (NYSE:WIT), today unveiled a new architecture to volume production flow for reliable, low cost, manufacturing of RF and complex mixed-signal integrated System-on-Chips (SOC) through leading global partners. Wipro is an independent design services and Intellectual Property (IP) provider for leading edge digital, mixed signal and RF integrated circuit (IC) development.

Designed to accelerate the implementation of new designs which integrate complex RF, mixed signal, high density memory and non-volatile memories, this flow will help customers improve their time to market while predictably achieving high yields, and reduced test times. Comprising of solutions and services, this unique offering from Wipro was developed based on a comprehensive study of what drives cost savings from integration of RF components on chip.

"Customers who choose to integrate complex RF, mixed-signal IP, and non-volatile memories on their SOC often face daunting design and manufacturing challenges which act as a barrier in taking this next step in system integration" said A Vasudevan, Vice-President for Semiconductor and System Solutions business. "Wipro is investing in creating a comprehensive turnkey services framework as an extension of its design services, so that our global customers can minimize the cost and risk of integrating RF IP components on their SOC."

With its in-house RF IP development and strong Analog Mixed Signal design team, Wipro has implemented several mixed signal SOC designs including 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz transceivers which are in volume production.

"RF integration can be one of the biggest challenges in chip design," said Vijay Parmar, CEO for GainSpan. "We turned to Wipro to utilize their design turnkey services which proved to be a right the choice. With their support, we were able to meet the cost and power requirements and deliver a solution that exceeds our customers' expectation."

Wipro RF Integration Framework

Wipro surveyed customers and products in the wireless connectivity space including portable internet applications, wireless personal media devices, industrial automation, logistics management, wireless remote monitoring for security, and wireless healthcare segments. Across all these segments, Wipro found that at an average, customers spend about 40% more on system level IC costs across their product lifecycle volume, than what they would spend using an integrated SOC device.

Wipro's Turnkey RF Integration Framework, designed to help such customers realize long term savings in product cost, features IC test related IP components, yield prediction/yield enhancement tools, excursion management methodologies, and integrated power management components for enabling low power applications.

Wipro's broad global partner ecosystem for enabling this framework provides customers with full flexibility in choosing the right manufacturing partner they need to address technical and commercial challenges in their chip design and production. Individual components of Wipro's RF Integration Framework are being silicon proven across selected top-tier third party semiconductor manufacturing partners of Wipro. This provides customers a seamless design to production service through Wipro which enables them to realize product lifecycle unit cost savings and a fast, reliable time to market.

Meets Customer Demand for Low Power

As part of its Turnkey SOC service offering, Wipro also unveiled technologies and services that are uniquely able to improve the performance with respect to power consumption of devices designed for the target market segment applications mentioned above. This allows customers in these markets to rapidly and predictably deploy Wipro's investment in developing these low power technologies in an end-to-end solution from IC design to production that benefit the customer's time to market and system power efficiency requirements.

For more information on Wipro's Turnkey Silicon Services, please access the company's online website at http://www.wipro.com/pes/services/vlsi/silicon_turnkey_services.htm.

About Wipro:
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services organization globally. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance services to corporations globally.

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Media Contacts:
India:
Radhika Mahadevan, Wipro Technologies, + 91 99450 42603. radhika.mahadevan@wipro.com
Sonali Madbhavi, Gutenberg Communications, +91 9844042850, sonali@gutenberpr.com

US:
Abhishek Mendiratta, Wipro Technologies, + 1 732 789 8646, abhishek.mendiratta@wipro.com
Lavanya DJ, Gutenberg Communications, + (212).239.8740, lavanya@gutenbergpr.com

UK:
Rahul Kadavakolu +44 792 020 5496, rahul.kadavakolu@wipro.com

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