Tata Elxsi partners MStar for Set Top Box Software Solutions

Tata Elxsi, a global design and technology service leader in the Broadcast industry, announced a global partnership with M-Star Semiconductor Inc., a global semiconductor company for display and digital home solutions, to provide a comprehensive suite of software for MStar’s System-on-a-Chip (SoC) targeted at Set-Top Boxes (STB).

This partnership brings together industry leading MStar STB chipset solutions with Tata Elxsi's solutions and professional services. Communication service providers, MSOs and OEMs are expected to gain from the partnership. As part of this partnership, Tata Elxsi's “RDK Prime” suite is made available on MStar STB chipset products. The suite is optimized to exploit the functionality for next-generation application demands from end consumers.

Tata Elxsi’s “Prime” is a software suite that is available on leading and popular middleware including Android TV and RDK. It also includes new-digital media components with an integrated app-store, built-in analytics components, industry leading OTT media players, Cloud EPG, Cloud DVR, CAS and IoT agents.

The "RDK Prime" version, bundled with an HTML5 application framework, RDK specific back-end servers and a set of pre-developed and engaging TV applications, enables operators to reduce the time to roll out next-generation TV and interactive services based on RDK. The platform optimized, multi-screen capable solution comes with a customizable user interface, addressing the needs of MSOs and service providers.

Tata Elxsi partners with leading middleware, CAS and silicon / platform vendors for ensuring seamless system integration and deployment; backed with 25+ years of experience on industry standards such as DVB, MHP, MHEG and OCAP.

“Tata Elxsi's partnership with MStar platform helps operators launch new services faster at the same time, keeping the solutions future-proof. Added to it is the best-in-class customer experience provided at the platform and software levels. We expect this partnership to propel the adoption of new IP based technologies at a much more rapid pace,” said Sreekumar K P, Vice President of Broadcast Business Unit, at Tata Elxsi.