STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments team up to establish an open standard for wireless applications - Business - Brief Article

Mobile Internet, The, Jan, 2003

Texas Instruments (TI) and STMicroelectronics (ST) announced a significant initiative to jointly define and promote an open standard for wireless application processor interfaces. The two companies expect the new OMAPI Standard will promote faster and broader deployment of multimedia-enhanced mobile devices and applications. ST and TI also intend to invite companies such as operating system (OS) vendors, middleware vendors, software application developers, hardware peripheral manufacturers and other industry players to embrace the new standard.

The new OMAPI Standard provides the Open Mobile Application Processor Interfaces for application processors targeting 2.5G and 3G mobile phones, PDAs and other portable and multimedia pro ducts. The OMAPI Standard will be comprised of a set of software interfaces to the operating system and a set of hardware interfaces defining common application peripherals. The initiative builds on both the market success and wide acceptance of TI's OMAP platform and its position as the worldwide leading supplier of wireless ICs and ST's position as the worldwide number one supplier of digital multimedia processing chips and its expertise in low-power System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Details of the new standard are expected to be made public in the first quarter of 2003.