Tensilica, SPIRIT DSP Form Strategic Partnership for Mobile Multimedia A/V Solutions

(Business News & Technology News, 6 Jun 2008)

By Stephen Las Marias, Editor

SPIRIT DSP and Tensilica Inc., one of the leaders in configurable processor technology and a supplier of licensable controllers and DSP cores for mobile audio and video applications, have formed a strategic partnership, which will focus on porting the full SPIRIT Audio and wideband Voice Engines to Tensilica's HiFi 2 platform.

SPIRIT can now deliver 18 optimized, high quality digital audio and voice software packages that run on Tensilica's HiFi 2 Audio Engine, a fully programmable processor core optimized for audio and voice applications, with a library of over 30 of the most popular audio software packages. Immediately available, SPIRIT's audio software packages include: AAC-LC decode and encode, aacPlus v1 and v2 decode and encode, BSAC decode, MP3 decode and encode, Ogg Vorbis decode, and WMA decode and encode. Voice codecs include AMR-NB (narrowband), AMR-WB and G.729AB.

The SPIRIT Voice Engine brings high quality real-time wideband voice and video to next generation VoIP equipment, such as mobile Internet devices (MIDs), video IP-phones, video conferencing terminals, and IP set-top boxes, among others. Spirit's Audio Engine, a comprehensive software solution supporting all popular music formats along with audio performance functions, is an easy-to-integrate high-quality player/recorder solution for both mobile/portable audio and professional appliances.

As part of the strategic partnership, SPIRIT has joined Tensilica's Xtensions Network of partners. In a statement, Steve Roddy, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Tensilica, says that Tensilica's HiFi 2 customers will be able to benefit from SPIRIT's audio and voice products, which also feature incredible power and memory efficiency that the mobile market demands.

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