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PHILIPS SOFTWARE CENTER

www.philipssoftware.com

With the rapid advancement of technology, more and more products around the world are today a combination of hardware and software, with software providing the key functionalities. As a result, software development has grown to become central to the core business of product companies and critical to their success. In addition, the growth in the software content of products has impacted significantly, the product creation process.

Philips Software Centre, operating from Philips Innovation Campus (PIC), Bangalore, India, was established in September 1996 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., The Netherlands, with the objective of meeting the growing need for high-quality, cost-effective software development capacity within the Philips organization.

Working at PIC are over 750 of the industry's finest professionals, using state-of-the-art software engineering paradigms and platforms including real-time systems, components-based software engineering, multi-threaded architecture and ASIC design methodologies in deep sub-micron technologies to drive the creation of tomorrow's products and services.

PIC operates through six divisions, each functioning as technology or software competence centres. They are:

  • Philips Mainstream Consumer Electronics
  • Philips Semiconductors
  • Philips Medical Systems
  • Philips Consumer Communications
  • Philips Research
  • Philips Centre for Industrial Technology
  • Blazing a trail of achievement, growth and success, PIC is an ISO 9001/TickIT,SEI CMMSM Level 5 company and has emerged as a critical partner in the development of strategic technologies for Philips worldwide. PIC has built up extensive know-how and expertise in the software engineering and technology domains relevant to its business. PIC's software expertise is primarily in the areas of embedded and information system engineering, architecture design, programming and testing. PIC's IC design expertise is in the areas of logic and circuit design. In addition, competencies in the areas of project management, requirement engineering and quality assurance have been established to offer customers, products and services of the highest quality, at the fastest time-to-market and the lowest cost of ownership.

    Technologies

  • Audio Video Compression
  • Speech Processing & Video Telecommunication
  • Interconnectivity
  • Process Architecture
  • Deep Sub-micron
  • Digital CMOS
  • Embedded Memories
  • Systems-on-Silicon design flow
  • Image/Video Processing
  • JPEG/MPEG/AC-3
  • ATSC/NTSC/PAL standards
  • Electronic Program Guide
  • Internet
  • Embedded Kernel
  • Operating System Technology
  • Imaging
  • Archiving
  • Connectivity
  • Remote Servicing.
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