Fabless Semiconductor Manufacturer
Location:
USA
Industry:
Manufacturing
Employees:
500+
About the Customer:
The customer of Infopulse, a US-based manufacturer of fabless semiconductor solutions for communications applications in wireless and wireline network infrastructure markets, was looking for a partner to fully cover their embedded software R&D needs across the company’s entire portfolio of semiconductor products.
Executive Summary
Goal: Establish powerful R&D partnership to ensure high-quality, issue-free software delivery and maintain manufacturing continuity across the entire manufacturing cycle for the entire company’s product line.
Solution: Infopulse created a comprehensive R&D center to implement and manage embedded platforms for various semiconductor products, set up a centralized testing lab, and automated release management for issue-free delivery across multiple hardware platforms.
Benefits: Enhanced product reliability, reduced time to market, lowered production costs, enhanced production cycle and market competitiveness.
Services delivered: Embedded Software development, Custom Software development & modernization, Quality Assurance.
Business Challenge
The customer of Infopulse, a US-based manufacturer of fabless semiconductor solutions for communications applications in wireless and wireline network infrastructure markets, was looking for a partner to fully cover their embedded software R&D needs across the company’s entire portfolio of semiconductor products.
The initial requirement was to ensure that the final delivery would not contain any functional and non-functional drawbacks since the continuity of the semiconductor manufacturing cycle was business-critical, and failing to meet this challenge could lead to unacceptable financial consequences for the customer. Any changes in semiconductor technologies, telecom protocols, business requirements, and reliability/performance requirements were also expected to be covered in a fast and reliable manner.
Solution
Infopulse set up a powerful R&D center to fully meet the software development needs of the customer. The embedded platforms were entirely architectured and developed by the R&D center, covering the following family of customer’s cutting-edge products: VoIP processors, baseband processors, enterprise voice and data processors, CPE processors, Carrier convergence processors, etc. The key activities of the R&D team:
- Development of communications apps for wireless and wireline network infrastructure;
- Integration of IP and classical telephony;
- Unique configuration management of production firmware versions;
- IP and non-IP based streaming to ensure security;
- Audio compression for big set of leading open and commercial codecs.
A testing lab with all of the needed target hardware provided by the client was built on the side of Infopulse for functional and performance testing in order to ensure waterfall-like delivery of the top quality.
A centralized, automated configuration and release management approach was set up to ensure simultaneous delivery of a number of releases to different hardware platforms after implementing changes in the core components.
Technologies
Business Value
Infopulse was crucial in filling in the gaps in the customer’s production cycle by providing high-quality embedded software for the entire product lines. Thanks to the seamless performance of the R&D center, the customer increased the reliability of the products they delivered to their worldwide communications clients, as well as significantly reduced time to market and production costs.
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