Engineering Services

Enhance the TV experience

In the iDTV and hybrid Set-Top Box (STB) market today the complexity of consumer product system design in both hardware and software is becoming extreme. ANT provides both a technology product response to this challenge, the ANT Galio portfolio of software products, and a full Engineering Services provision. Designed very specifically to decrease time to market by reducing product development and test cycle time, ANT’s Engineering Services are offered through a highly skilled and experienced team who can deliver the benefit of these skills anywhere in the world integrating with your own development team and process.

THE CHALLENGES

• Reduce product time to market

• Maximise revenue opportunities

• Maximise product differentiation

• Optimise product BOM/performance ratio

• Simplify product design and development

• Reduce development and product introduction risk

THE ANT ENGINEERING SERVICES SOLUTION

• Provision of extensive porting and integration experience

• Integration and optimisation of the ANT Galio portfolio with target devices

• Provision of development project management services

• Provision of application design and development services including UI animation and performance optimisation

• Applications quality assurance and testing using a range of ANT development tools

• Whole-system performance profiling and fault diagnosis services

• Training and workshops on-site or at location of choice

ANT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

ANT’s Engineering Services team are amongst the best in the world, with a wealth of detailed knowledge about the development and implementation of TV devices.

Our team can help your organisation to capitalise on the growth of the digital TV market by providing expertise to ensure your business is able to successfully develop and launch TV products, optimise systems to maintain flexibility and performance and ensure the service you provide to your customers is as secure and efficient as possible. As an operator or device manufacturer you can call upon ANT’s expertise for training, or consultation in relation to content development, systems integration or product development.

CONSULTANCY SERVICES

In today’s rapidly evolving digital TV market consumers expect to receive their information and entertainment needs in a variety of formats and across multiple devices. Traditional models of TV delivery are changing with more content being made available and consumed on-demand. Delivering a product that meets consumer expectation in this environment requires TV products that are both visually appealing and highly usable. This challenge is amplified by the need to deliver this capability at increasingly aggressive prices.

ANT can provide architectural and applications development professionals to bring engineering effort and support during the development and deployment of all types of digital TV products, including all aspects of integration, BOM/performance ratio optimisation and personnel training.

CUSTOMISATION & BESPOKE APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT

ANT offers broadcasters and operators application development services to enrich the consumer TV experience with compelling UI design capabilities including animation and performance optimisation that can be fully integrated with existing themes or network services, across multiple devices. Applications can be based on existing open standards based ANT Galio Core Applications, or developed to meet bespoke requirements.

All aspects of development and project management services can be provided to ensure content development results in an optimised user experience, whilst maximising revenue.

INTEGRATION SERVICES

ANT’s Engineering Services team is highly experienced in embedded system design and development across broadcast, on-demand IP based and hybrid device architectures. The team is also skilled in troubleshooting toolchain issues across a variety of devices, chipsets and environments and in many cases reference ports can be provided to enable device manufacturers to reduce the time to market. The ANT Galio Platform can be integrated with hardware and graphic drivers in preparation for supporting further applications. ANT’s Engineering Service team’s porting
experience extends across a wide range of hardware platforms, including designs from Broadcom, Intel, Sigma Designs, ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments and NXP. ANT’s team also has wide platform and technology experience including Linux, VxWorks, OS 21, ST-API, Direct FB and many others environments.

For more information on ANT Professional Services email info@antplc.com