Texas to Offer 3G Compliant Graphic Software

Texas Instruments has said that it plans to incorporate the BitFlash Mobile SVG Player as part of a standard software offering on TI's OMAP design platform. Handset manufacturers will have the option of incorporating BitFlash's player into their 2.5G and 3G mobile phones and wireless PDAs with TI's OMAP family of processors, including the OMAP1510 and OMAP710 devices.

"Now that Mobile SVG is a 3GPP standard, device manufacturers and wireless operators will require a Mobile SVG player as a default component," says Paul Werp, worldwide marketing director for TI's OMAP platform. Mobile SVG is a subset of the scalable vector graphics file format -- a way to handle graphics and text in the XML language. Unlike bitmaps, SVG scales without compromising resolution. It also supports keyword searches, interactivity, hyperlinks, zooming and panning, and so on.

BitFlash Mobile SVG Player for TI's OMAP platform is scheduled to be available from TI in the fourth quarter of this year.'"

Posted to the site on 11th July 2002