eInfochips Introduces Rapid Prototyping Board for Texas Instruments DaVinci Technology

Enables OEMs/ ODMs Go-To-Market Quickly Accelerating Their Product Design Cycles

Ahmedabad, India, (Nov 28, 2006): eInfochips, a leading chip and product design services firm with "spec-to-silicon-to-system" capabilities today announced the availability of the DVPB – a DaVinci™ Prototyping Board. The DVPB features all commonly used video system peripheral interfaces and thus enable OEMs/ODMs to go-to-market quickly by reducing their hardware design cycle. The board is targeted for streaming media applications like Smart IP Camera, Network Video Server, Video Conferencing Systems and more. eInfochips will be demonstrating DVPB at their booth # E5 at forthcoming Texas Instruments Developers Conference being held from 30th Nov to 1st Dec in Bangalore.eInfochips already has strong presence in USA (Sunnyvale, CA, Austin, Texas, Boston, MA) and Europe and plans to further enter markets like Korea and Taiwan in south east Asia..

The DVPB is a small foot-print board ideal for rapid prototyping. It will be bundled with a boot-loader and software utilities so that customers can quickly re-target their applications on to DVPB. The board features peripheral interfaces for audio./video I/O, ethernet, USB, SD, ATA, VLYNQ and others interfaces such as RS232, RS485 and GPIO.

“eInfochips has a track record of enabling our OEM customers accelerate their product development by providing systems integration services, said Sham Banerji, Head Software Development, Texas Instruments India. As an early adopter of DaVinci™ technology, eInfochips has gained expertise on DaVinci™. We are happy that customers will get access to eInfochips’ DaVinci™ rapid prototyping platform in addition to their expert system integration skills.”

“DaVinci™ provides a high performance and flexible platform for streaming media, video and imaging products”, said Tapan Joshi, VP Marketing at eInfochips, “By having expertise on DaVinci™ technology and offering the DVPB we will be able to give more value added solutions and services to customers across application domains.”

Pricing & Availability: The boards will be available for volume shipping by third week of Dec. The board is priced at US$ 1,299 for low volumes. For more information please visit http://www.einfochips.com/embedded/casestudies/dvpb.html or contact sales@einfochips.com

About the Texas Instruments Third Party Program

eInfochips is a member of the TI TMS320 third party program, the most extensive collection of global DSP development support in the industry. With more than 650 independent companies and consultants, TI's customers have easy access to a broad range of application software, development hardware and software and consulting services. For more information on the TI third party program, please visit www.ti.com/3p.

About eInfochips

eInfochips Inc., based in Sunnyvale, is a leading provider of Silicon design & verification services, Embedded systems solutions and IP cores. Their capabilities extend from Specification to System, with knowledge on ASIC design & verification, physical design, board design and embedded firmware development. The company's India and US design centers have delivered SoC and Embedded solutions to a variety of customers thus increasing their cost-effectiveness, reducing their time-to-market and growing their market strength. A partial list of customers includes Gatelinx, TI, IDEO, Object Video, and Cisco. For additional information, please visit www.einfochips.com