Sasken's ARIA successfully integrated to TI's 'LoCosto'

Bangalore, Nov 30 (UNI) Sasken Communication Technologies Limited, leading player in wireless software solutions, today announced that its application framework ARIA has been successfully integrated on to Texas Instruments Incorporated's (TI's) ''LoCosto'' single-chip value platform.

Sasken's Application Framework ARIA together with TI's ''LoCosto'' single chip would allow phone manufacturers to produce phones with affordable multimedia and compelling user experience while lowering the cost of integration and accelerating the time to market, according to a release by Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd here.

Sasken Vice President (Sales&Marketing) Edwin Moses said that ''Sasken and TI have worked closely together in the area of Mobile Applications. This close relationship has enabled us to deliver to our customers an integrated and scalable feature phone solution with the Application Framework ARIA on TI's ''LoCosto'' platform.'' ARIA is an Application Frameworks solution that was aimed at the Future Phone market and for the first time enables customers to be able to create differentiated mobile phones without having to give up on software reuse and portability across phone designs and platforms. ARIA's innovative smart design and extensive tool suite simplifies the customers' ability to add and remove features in accordance with the segment of the market that they wish to address with their phones. It enables OEM's and ODM's to change the look and feel of the phones without disturbing the underlying software logic.

Mr Remi El-Ouazzane, General Manager of 2.5G Business, Wireless Terminals Business Unit, Texas Instruments, said, ''Sasken's ARIA is an important addition to the portfolio of application suite partners on the ''LoCosto'' platform since it is a flexible architecture enabling fast customer differentiation and delivery.'' Sasken ARIA on the ''LoCosto'' platform was showcased at the TI Developer Conference which began here today.

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