Wireless Handsets

Motorola started the development of handsets in China in 1998, including software and hardware design and development. Since then, Motorola China's R&D teams have launched more than 20 products, most of which are high-end products, such as A780 and E680; they have also designed Motorola's first 100% Chineses Handset Taichi series in the year 2000. Taichi series were completely designed and produced in China. The handwriting and touch UI feature is the pioneer work which is specially designed for Chinese consumers and becomes popular design in smart phone.

Currently the team's R&D focuses are:

• Testing and developing telephone products and software of 2G+GSM cellular phones, CDMA RUIM phones, and new generation phones such as 3G-WCDMA, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, etc.
• Developing and certifying preloaded applications,studying and developing application servers to provide services to preloaded and native applications, supporting third parties in the development of mobile applications.
• Developing software platforms and applications deployed in current and future handset products.
• Developing total user experiences including User Interface, Human Factor, Industrial Design and Graphic Design.

To facilitate the development of handsets, Motorola has set up several labs in China, including Specific Absorption Rate Lab, Electronic Engineering Lab, Antenna Chamber, Advanced Mechanical Lab, PCB Lab, Audio Lab, Software Screen Booth and Electronic-Static Discharge Work Station. We'll briefly introduce two of these labs here:

The Health Conscious Specific Absorption Rate Lab (SAR Lab)

In the development of products, Motorola is very conscious of any side effects that might be caused to consumers' health. Concerned about the potential health hazards caused by RF electromagnetic fields emitted by wireless devices, motorola has established a SAR Lab in China in 2003, which is used to measure the human body's (especially the head) specific absorption rate of electromagnetic wave caused by portable wireless devices.

The Three-dimensional Spherical Antenna Chamber

The common anechoic chamber system is a three-dimensional spherical, high-precision measurement system that has been designed for various experiments in the development of wireless products. The rotation and positioning devices in the chamber cover full 3-D scan sphere around the device under test. Specially designed antennas and probes pick up signals reflected by the device under test which are then used for measurement and evaluation.

Wireless Infrastructure

In 1995, Motorola GTSS (Global Telecom Solutions Sector) China Design Center was set up in China, focusing on cellular infrastructure products. The R&D group does research, system engineering, software development, system test, and new product introduction for cellular infrastructure products for the 2G/2.5G/3G mobile communication systems. The engineers in the group are important contributors to GSM/GPRS/UMTS and CDMA products.

This group of engineers participated in the SEI CMM assessment in December 2000 and attained an SEI Level 5 rating for the first time which is the highest recognition for software development organizations. This group, along with its counterparts in the US and UK, participated reassessment in April 2004, and got Level 5 again.

In January 2003, GTSS further established BTSCoE (Basestation Transceiver System Center of Excellence) in Beijing. At the time the primary responsibility of the team was cost reduction for CDMA and GSM products. They made significant contributions by working with Sourcing and Factory to save over 12% in BTS direct material cost. Now the team's responsibilities have expanded to include activities such as factory support, field support, new product introduction, production transfer support, and new product development for all BTS products.

Mission-Critical Information Systems

Motorola leads the world's digital trunking technology and application development, fully supporting China's digital trunking industrial standards of Tetra and iDEN, with more than 66 years of experience in meeting the mission-critical requirements of public safety, government and enterprise customers worldwide. As the key initiator and active participant of TETRA MoU, Motorola has provided over 100 Tetra contracts and operational trials in 40 countries, including China, with the largest number of contract wins and operational systems among all Tetra manufacturers in the world. Motorola maintains the leadership in digital trunking solution as well as two-way radios.

Automotive Electronics

Since successfully invented the first car radio in 1930, Motorola has been a leader in auto electronics industry for more than 70 years. The brand name Motorola linking "motor" (motorcar, motion) with the suffix "ola" (sound) was created in 1930 for the company's new car radio.

R&D on automotive electronics has just begun in China, and will grow to the biggest R&D center of automotive electronics in Asia. The automotive R&D center which is located in Shanghai focuses on product development including sensors, telematics, interior electronics, powertrain control electronics and chassis electronics.

Energy Systems

Motorola has been striving to provide integrated energy system solutions for portable electronics and to pioneer new areas of integrated electronic solutions in order to provide enhanced capabilities for our customers.

In May 2002, a design center dedicated to energy systems was set up in Shanghai due to its proximity to customers and suppliers, rich engineering talent pool and burgeoning region for electronics OEMs.

The center is planned to have full engineering development capabilities for Motorola's battery and accessory product portfolio in the energy and wireless spaces, which include batteries/smart batteries; electronic accessories for communication; bluetooth products; computing notebook and integrated solution for portable electronic device.

Major Milestones and Achievements of Energy Systems Group's Shanghai Design Center:

Global Software Group-China Software Center

GSG China was established in 1993, as an integral part of Global Software Group, Motorola. It was set up initially to serve the internal customers for development of high quality software. With the rapid business growth, GSG China set its vision as to become the chosen software solution provider to customers and achieve total customer satisfaction.

GSG China achieved SEI CMM Level 5 certification, the highest recognition for software developing organizations in September 2000, becoming the first organization that passed SEI CMM Level 5 in Mainland China. This makes China the 3rd country receiving CMM Level 5 after US and India.

GSG China now has three branch offices in the cities of Beijing, Nanjing and Chengdu. The business scope of the company also developed from only providing end-to-end solutions into many hi-tech fields such as Mobile Terminal Software Development, Wireless End-To-End Solution, Embedded System Software Total Solutions, Professional Two Way Radio Software Development and Testing, Network Management, CMM Software quality management process set up and maintenance, Software Engineering and Quality Consultancy, etc.

We have led and participated in a lot of software projects worldwide, and our software products and services are widely applied in Motorola products. GSG China plays a very important role in Motorola's global strategy.

Motorola Physical Realization Research CoE-Asia (PRRC-Asia)

Motorola Physical Realization CoE-Asia (PRRC-Asia) was established in 1995, the center owns a modern materials research laboratory and has the capabilities of Materials & failure analysis and CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) software R&D. The vision of PRRC-Asia is to become the Center of Excellence in Asia for materials analysis and environmental technology development in the field of electronic manufacturing and assembly.

Its mission is to support manufacturing operations in the Asian-Pacific region by providing training, technology transfer and implementation programs; to perform materials analysis service for production problem solving; to qualify painted house, to develop and implement real time CIM software tools; and to collaborate with regional research institutes on R&D projects in advanced technology and environmental technology.

There are three functional groups in the center that respectively focus on material and failure analysis (including reliability analysis, thermal and mechanical properties analysis, non-destructive inspection, model analysis and simulation); Process control software development (including Real-time process monitoring and control, Finite Element Analysis and Web based factory decision support system); and technical collaboration and realization (including transfer, implementation and training in advanced technologies, hosting technical symposium/seminars and collaborative research with local R&D institutes).

Motorola China Research Center

Motorola China Research Center (MCRC), established in Shanghai in 2000, is a point of presence of Motorola Labs in China. MCRC conducts mid-to-long term research in advanced technologies that would be used by Motorola global mainstream products. Based on its location, MCRC also supports regional product groups for their technology needs.

The focuses of MCRC research programs include multi-lingual hand writing recognition, intelligent text input methods, automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, natural language processing, and video understanding. With an emphasis on applied research, MCRC has created a sequence of technology transfers to support major Motorola product groups. Five enabling technology modules developed by MCRC have been applied to the high tier handset products, such as, A668, A760, A768, A780, E680 and iDEN i930. In the past three years, MCRC created 48 patent filings.

MCRC has a dynamic and innovative research team consisting of experienced researchers, junior researchers, post-doctor fellows, and graduate students from local universities. In addition to the onsite projects, MCRC has also set up research partnerships with a number of top ranking Chinese universities and national key research institutes.