Saankhya Labs introduces Pruthvi-3 chipsets

Saankhya Labs has unveiled Pruthvi -3, the most advanced multi-standard Next-Generation System-On-Chip (SoC). The chip was launched by the Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications, Shri Manoj Sinha, at a ceremony in New Delhi that also had in attendance Shri Suresh Angadi, MP, BJP; Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog; Shri Shashi Shekar Vempati, CEO, Prasar Bharti; and Shri Anshu Prakash, Additional Secretary, DoT, Government of India.

Pruthvi-3 is a fully programmable multi-standard chipset that supports next-generation broadcast standards. Available in multiple package options (SL3000 and SL4000), Pruthvi-3 will enable live broadcast TV capability on mobile devices and support video offload services from mobile networks to broadcast network.

Parag Naik, Co-Founder & CEO, Saankhya Labs, in his address, said, “It is a privilege to unveil this ‘Make-in-India’ chipset to the world. Indigenously designed and developed by Saankhya Labs, the Pruthvi-3 family of processors are designed to drive the next-generation communications architecture required in the ‘Convergence Era’ of broadcast and broadband infrastructure. Powered by our award-winning, patented Software-Defined Radio (SDR) architecture, SL-30xx and SL-40xx can support worldwide broadcast communication standards and targeted for use in the Mobile, UHDTV, STB, IoT and in-vehicle entertainment.”

Saankhya Labs is also working on its broadcast-broadband convergence solution. This solution enables telecom service providers to offload video traffic from their mobile network onto the broadcast network. This will help decongest mobile spectrum use by removing video traffic that accounts for maximum data use. This will improve better usage of mobile spectrum and help reduce call drops and improve voice-call quality. Video traffic is the fastest-growing traffic on mobile networks. World over, about 60% of mobile data usage is by video content, and this is expected to increase to over 75% by 2022. This solution not only helps the service provider, but also will help broadcasters such as Doordarshan to monetize their broadcast spectrum by reaching 300+ million additional subscribers enabled by mobile reception. This chip will be a major enabler of this convergence solution.