Software is emerging as the dominant component in the next-generation wireless terminal devices, delivering a wider range of applications and experiences to the user. Mobile terminal software is critical to the satisfactory performance of terminal equipment, yet it is complex and expensive to develop, drawing heavily on internal resources of handset manufacturers.

Sasken is your one-stop software solution for 2G, 2.5G and 3G technologies, offering a range of platform-independent, standards-compliant wireless protocol stacks, multimedia codecs, middleware frameworks and applications to enhance your product line and provide you with a distinct time-to-market edge.

Working with Sasken allows you to acquire technology at a fraction of the cost of in-house development. We provide wireless protocol stacks, multimedia applications and codecs and a wide range of consulting expertise and services in the domain, helping you come up with handset models in short time spans.

While our stacks and multimedia solutions are optimized to many, leading industry platforms, our unique architecture enables easy customization to other platforms as well. Customer-specific engineering teams work closely with you to meet even the most complicated challenges in a minimal timeframe.

Each of our solutions is thoroughly tested with a range of simulators and in the field across the world, assuring you of quality software with proven capabilities.

Associate Partner of the NFC Forum since 2007
A member of the Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum since 2007 and working in the area since 2004, Sasken offers a comprehensive NFC service portfolio, ranging from technology consultation and device integration to system integration. Sasken provides turnkey solutions to integrate NFC chipsets with mobile devices and adding NFC functionality to various software components, such as the device UI and browser. Sasken provide services like testing of the solution, performance measurements, optimization and building SDK support for J2ME with JSR-257. Sasken can also customize solutions as per requirements and develop pilot cases for NFC deployment.

Sasken has worked on NFC projects for mobile phones and other devices since 2004 and completed full integration of NFC features on a mobile device in 2006. Some examples of our expertise in this area are:

• Technology consultation: Confirm interoperability of NFC with Symbian OS and develop NFC enabled prototypes for a tier 1 OEM.
• Device integration services: NFC enabled mobile phone development for a tier 1 OEM.
• System integration services: Ticketing solution using NFC capabilities in public transport for demonstrational and trial purposes.

The Symbian Competence Center
The Symbian Competence Center at Sasken provides licensees of Symbian OS, Series 60 & UIQ with component design and development, software porting, integration as well as testing services. Sasken project expertise on Symbian covers the entire spectrum, from platform development to handset integration. Sasken Symbian expertise spans:

Application Development Multimedia applications comprising Sasken IP Symbian TRP customization and testing Software porting & integration Base porting Device drivers Testing and integration

To read more about this please visit http://www.symbian.com/partner/platinum/directory/sasken.html

TI Certified Independent OMAP Technology Center
Sasken is a TI Certified Independent OMAP Technology Center and provides customers access to unparalleled expertise in OMAP based development and integration activities.

In addition to software services, Sasken also licenses the following Strawberra Multimedia products:

• Multimedia codec engines (video, audio, speech and image)
• MMS client
• Media suite
• Audio / video player
• Still camera
• Video camcorder
• 3G-324M Videophone terminal

ARM Approved Design Center Sasken ARM Approved Design Center Program underlines their expertise in ARM technology-based embedded chip design and implementation. Sasken is able to meet a diverse range of application needs to service low-power, high-performance consumer devices for mobile and internet-based applications.

The Hardware Competence Center
In hardware design, the design costs can be considerably reduced using optimized design processes, thereby reducing the time to market.

Our world-class services in hardware-engineering design includes Radio frequency (RF) design for system & circuit level, Baseband & audio design, Antenna & EMC/EMI design, ASIC & component verification and Electronics and layout design. We have expertise in using tools and methods like PWB-design SW, circuit simulator, antenna simulator and specified measurement devices for R&D purposes.