Total Software Solutions for SDMMCSDIOCEATA and WLAN 802.11x Technologies

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Total Software Solutionsfor SD/MMC/SDIO/CE-ATA
and WLAN 802.11x Technologies
embWiSe
Presented by embWiSe Jan 2008
www.embwsie.com
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Introduction

• Started operations from June 1, 2004
• Operations out of Chennai in India with a
  subsidiaryincorporated in the State of
  California, USA in Q1,2006
• Currently a 15 engineers organization
• 12 engineering resources with experience
  varyingfrom 2 to 11 years
• 2 QA/Test Engineers with 5 years and 2 years
  ofexperience respectively

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Introduction

• Provide best practice based solution in
• Software Product/IP around Interconnect
  Technologies
• NRE Driver Development /Porting Services around
  SDIO,CF, USB and WLAN 802.11 Technologies
• NRE Services for WLAN 802.11 Infrastructure
  Access Devices

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Mission
statement
SofToGo To provide Ready-to-Go quality
software products/solutions that mitigates
customers time-to-market and engineering
lead-time issues
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Management
team
Srinivasan Govindarajan Managing Director 18
years of Sales, Marketing and Business
Development Experience. Incharge of overall
operations, Product Management, Partnership
Management, Sales, Marketing and Business
Development
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Management
team
Alagusankar Vellaichamy Director - Technical 11
years of Embedded Systems experience. Solid
expertise in Device driver, firmware, BSP and
RTOS development. Strong experience with several
embedded OSes,WLAN 802.11 and Interconnect
technologies like SDIO,USB,CF and
PCMCIA. Architect of the SDIOWorx Stack.
Manages product engineering and NRE projects.
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Trends

• Interconnect Technology , a crucial element of
  the design to address form-factor and Power
  Management issues
• Secure Digital (SD/SDIO) becoming de-facto
  standard to address storage and I/O requirements
  in Mobile and CE devices
• Mobile and CE Devices increasingly becoming
  wireless
• WiFi enabled for Internet Access
• Communication with Host PC and Printer
• Flash Storage in Mobile and CE devices being
  replaced with high capacity storage for storing
  audio/video/GPS data
• Video Broadcasting for Mobile devices

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Market
focus

• High Volume Mobile and CE devices designs,
  encompassing
• Semiconductor/Processor Vendors
• Client Chipset/Device vendors WLAN, BT, DVB,
  RFID, GPS, etc.,
• Mobile/Handheld Device/PDA/Connected Device
  vendors
• Consumer Electronics Device vendors (DSC,
  Camcorders, Gaming)
• WiFi enabled Printers

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Software
Products (IP)

• SDIOWorx
• - an Embedded SD/SDIO Software Stack under
  Linux, ThreadX, ThreadX-uITRON and TOPPERS uITRON
  OS with SDIO-WLAN driver support
• CE-ATAWorx, an MMC-CE-ATA Stack
• - under Linux for small form factor
  storage/hard drives for the Mobile and CE devices
  
• WiSe-Zeroconf
• - an Embedded Zeroconf Stack conforming to
  Apples Bonjour and certified by Apple as Bonjour
  compliant

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Software
NRE service

• Wireless LAN AP/STA(USB/SDIO/CF) Drivers
  Development and porting to OS and Host platforms
• SDIO/USB/Compact FLASH - Host Controller and
  Client Drivers Development and platform porting
• Embedded Software development for WLAN Access
  Devices
• AP Drivers using MadWiFi, Reference driverfrom
  chipset vendors
• MeshAP using the open source OLSR
• L2/L3Networking applications
• BSP and Platform Porting

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Memberships

• SDCard Association
• CE-ATA

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SDIOWorx Software
under Linux

• Currently supported on Linux 2.4.x/2.6.x/MontaVist
  asCEE 3.1 and Mobilinux 4.0 for the Mobile
  Communications Devices
• SDIO Host Controller Support
• Standards based PCI-SDIO Host Controllers
• Intel XScale PXA270,Samsungs S3C2410/2440,RMIs
  AU1200
• TIs OMAP 2420/2430/DaVinci DM6446 and
  Freescale iMX21/iMX31
• SDIO Client Drivers (tested and validated on the
  above Hosts)
• SDIO-WLAN Driver (for three different WLAN
  chipsets)
• SD/MMC 3.1/4.1 /SD High Capacity (SDHC) Memory
  Drivers
• SDIO-UART Serial Driver
• SDIO-Bluetooth (Type A) Driver

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SDIOWorx Software
under Linux
Host Controller
Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot N
Device
Memory
Function 1
Function 7
SD Memory Driver
SDIO-WLAN Driver
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ThreadX
SDIOWorx Block Diagram
Application
WLAN Config APls
ThreadX RTOS
FileX-File Manager
NetX TCP/IP
SDIOWorx Core
SD/MMC Client Driver
Host Controller Driver
802.11 SDIO-WLAN Driver
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SDIOWorx ulTRON
Under development on ARM9 Host
ulTRON Application
Wlan Config Apls
Toppers/JSP Kernel
File x
TINET TCP/IP
Operating System Toppers/JSP ver 1.42 (ulTRON
Specification ver 4.0) TCP/IP Stack TINET 1.3.1
(ITRON TCP/IP Specifications ver 1.00.01) SDIO
Stack SDIOWorx version 1.3.03
SDIOWorx Core
Host Controller Driver
SD/MMC Client Test Driver
WLAN 802.11a/b/g
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Products

• Linux MMC/CE-ATA Stack (CE-ATA Worx)
• Currently supported on Linux 2.4/2.6
• Supports any CE-ATA Host that conforms to CE-ATA
  Rev1.1
• Client Driver Support for MMC4.x devices -
  includes MMCPlus and MMCMobile
• Client Driver Support for CE-ATA client devices
• Tested and Validated on a couple of CE-ATA Hosts
  with an 8GB and a 30GB CE-ATA Hard Drives from
  leading storage vendors

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Products

• WiSe-Zeroconf Stack
• Based on Apples Bonjour (aka Rendezvous) and
  Certified by Apple as Bonjour Compliant
• Currently supported on Linux and tested and
  validated on x86 and IXP425 platforms
• A ground-up development with minimal foot-print
  (less than 50KB in whole) and judicial use of
  memory
• WiSe-Zeroconf has an Auto-IP implementation
  follows the "Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link
  Local Addresses" Draft completely 
• A complete solution with all the three ZeroConf
  requirements (Auto-IP, Multicast DNS and Service
  Discovery) implemented as per the standards
• Configurable records through APIs (for embedded
  systems) and/or Configuration files

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Expertise

• Embedded OS Linux,pSOS, WindowsCE, ThreadX,
  Nucleus, VxWorks, BSD Unix
• Processor Architecture ARM 7/9/11,x86,MIPS,PowerP
  C
• Bus Technologies SDIO, USB, Compact Flash, PCI,
  PCMCIA, CardBus
• WLAN 802.11 Chipsets Atheros AR5AR52xx, AR50005
  (USB) / AR6001 (SDIO), Marvell 88W8385 / 8686,
  Mediatek, Conexants PRISM 2.5/3.0 and Intel
  Calexico
• Embedded Networking WirelessLAN
  AP/Gateway/Bridge with TCP/IP, Layer 2
  (STP,802.1q,802.1d),SNMP and RMON,Radius
  Authentication and Accounting and 802.1x
  Authentication MeshAP Topology with OLSR protocol

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Value
proposition

• Focused expertise in WLAN 802.11 and SDIO
  technologies
• Engineering/Development experience on CF,USB,SDIO
  and 802.11x technologies for embedded designs
• Continued investment on emerging technologies and
  resources
• Value-added Engineering Services
• Concept to final design software engineering
  services, including testing, sustaining,
  integration and customization
• Ability to manage engineering teams as an
  extension of the clients product development
  group

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