Significant benefits for product companies in the media and consumer space
Bangalore, July 7, 2007: Tata Elxsi today announced it has achieved the world’s first implementation of Mozilla Firefox over Direct Frame Buffer (Direct FB).
DirectFB provides hardware acceleration with low memory footprint for embedded platforms while Mozilla Firefox imparts open source browsing experience.
With the rapidly growing market for set-top-boxes and other embedded Linux-based devices, Mozilla Firefox-over-DirectFB provides for a wide range of applications including access to the Internet via set-top boxes, Internet radio, new age GPS devices for collecting local information, and direct song downloads via MP3 players. Entertainment and advertisement agencies can exercise real-time control over billboard and point-of-sale (PoS) advertisements running on central servers. It also supports order-tracking and easy billing in retail stores.
The Mozilla Firefox and DirectFB implementation includes components such as GNASH Flash Plug-in to Mozilla, GNASH Flash Player and Libfad Flash Plug-in. The core development team at Tata Elxsi is now working on related components and new flavors of rich Internet applications for markets such as retail, entertainment and communication, sales and marketing, media, healthcare and social networking. |
Tata Elxsi is the embedded product design arm of the US $22 billion Tata Group, one of India’s biggest conglomerates. Since its incorporation in 1989, Tata Elxsi has built strong competencies across the product design lifecycle in verticals such as automotive, storage, consumer electronics, media, scientific instrumentation, semiconductors, and networking & communication.
Tata Elxsi’s 2500 plus strong and multi-faceted team provides expertise in VLSI design, embedded software, networking, telecom, multimedia, storage, visual and high-performance computing and mechanical product design. This is supported by four India development centers in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram, a near-shore center in Japan and over 20 international offices that enable easy customer access. For more information, see www.tataelxsi.com |
| With a unique basket of licensable IP, technology expertise developed over 15 years of development for graphics and imaging products and applications, and robust quality frameworks for end-to-end product development, Tata Elxsi addresses the growing demand for visualization and imaging applications, offering both application and core level visualization solutions on embedded and host-based systems. |
