Aplio Announces World's First Single Chip Processor for Audio-Enabled Internet Appliances; Aplio TRIO, Three-Processor Chip for Booming Standalone Internet Appliance Market.SAN BRUNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1999-- Aplio, Inc, a leading provider of embedded communications technologies for the Internet appliance market, today announced the first single chip solution for the development of audio-enabled Internet Appliances. The Aplio TRIO(TM) provides all the components necessary on a single chip for manufacturers easily and at low cost to develop standalone Internet audio appliances, such as Internet Telephones, Internet Radios, and digital music players (MP3). In addition, Aplio TRIO is the perfect ONE-chip solution to integrate telephony features into other Internet appliances such as set-top boxes, web pads, web screen phones, and regular telephones. By integrating three processors and Internet connectivity onto a single chip, the Aplio TRIO(TM) allows developers and vendors to significantly reduce development time and the end electronic cost of these devices. According to International Data Corporation, the market projections for U.S. shipments of all non-PC Internet access devices is expected to grow from approximately two million units in 1998 to approximately 40 million units in 2002 - representing nearly half of all computing devices shipped. The market for Internet Telephones alone is expected to average annual growth of more than 250 percent for the next three years, and amount to 8.8 million units sold by the year 2002. Henri Tebeka, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Aplio, noted, "Aplio TRIO is the best single chip solution for the booming Internet appliances market. It reduces costs, shortens development cycles, and supports Aplio's patented, industry standard-compliant Internet telephony technology used by the Aplio/Phone. The Aplio/Phone is in use over 50 countries and generates over 5 million VoIP minutes per month; it also features unique PacketPlus(TM) technology, providing optimal sound quality over the Internet. The Aplio TRIO(TM) is a tri-processor chip which includes a 32-bit RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. (ARM core) and two 16-bit fixed point DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive (OAK core) with 98K bytes of memory per DSP. It also includes all the peripheral interfaces (DRAM, Keyboard, etc.) allowing for very integrated and low cost PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. design. Other features include 48 programmable input/output lines for keypad interface, programmable chip selects, interrupt controller, three timers, watchdog timer, integrated fast RAM for two DSPs (2x98K bytes), two UARTs with FIFO (First In First Out) A storage method that retrieves the item stored for the longest time. Contrast with LIFO. See traffic engineering methods. FIFO - first-in first-out , SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface (communications, hardware) Serial Peripheral Interface - (SPI) A serial interface in which a master device supplies clock pulses to exchanges data serially with a slave over two data wires (Master-Slave and Slave-Master). ), external DRAM controller, Input/Output pins, full JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) An IEEE standard for boundary scan technology. See scan technology. JTAG - Joint Test Action Group debugging, Flash EPROM interface, Dual Codec Interface, and compatibility with all existing Aplio software modules including modem, voice compression and echo cancellation. Aplio plans to initially offer the Aplio TRIO(TM) processor in 16-bit BUS (160 pins PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Package) Refers to many varieties of QFP chip packages, which are molded in plastic. See QFP. ) and 32-bit BUS (240 pins PQFP) packages by the end of Q4, with pricing starting at $20 for quantities of 100,000 About Aplio, Inc. Aplio is a leading provider of embedded communications technologies for the Internet appliance market. Aplio's patented technologies enable manufacturers of Internet appliances (such as Internet phones, set-top boxes, web phones, web pads...) to easily and at minimal cost, integrate Voice over IP (VoIP) and other communication capabilities into their devices. As an initial implementation, the Aplio/Phone device was introduced in March 1998. With the press of a button, the Aplio/Phone reroutes calls from traditional carriers to the Internet, enabling users to make free long distance calls. Since its launch the Aplio/Phone has won numerous industry awards and is now distributed in over 50 countries via over one thousand resellers, distributors and OEM partners. Building upon its initial success, the company has recently announced plans to expand its technology portfolio to support the fast-growing broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a and small business markets. Located in San Bruno, Calif., Aplio, Inc. has a worldwide presence with offices in the United States, Europe and Israel. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is backed by major venture capitalists. For more information about Aplio please visit our web site at http://www.aplio.com. |
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