CML Microcircuits and SPIRIT DSP form a Strategic Agreement to Produce Low Bit-Rate Vocoder IC's.LONDON -- CML 1. CML - A query language. ["Towards a Knowledge Description Language", A. Borgida et al, in On Knowledge Base Management Systems, J. Mylopoulos et al eds, Springer 1986]. 2. CML - Concurrent ML. Microcircuits (www.cmlmicro.com) a leading innovator and provider of low-power semiconductors for Global Wireless and Wireline communication markets, today announced a strategic agreement with SPIRIT 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 (www.spiritdsp.com), a technology innovator and the world's leading provider of embedded voice, audio and communication software products. Under the terms of the agreement, CML will provide integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. (IC's) to the worldwide communication markets based upon SPIRIT's proprietary Low Bit-Rate vocoder (VOice CODER) Same as speech codec. (communications) vocoder - Hardware or software which implements a compression algorithm particular to voice. technology. The agreement combines CML's 38-year history of developing mixed-signal semiconductors for professional and leisure wireless applications with SPIRIT's 10 years of experience in embedded voice products. Initial semiconductor products will be aimed at applications within the global Two-Way Radio A voice network that provides an always-on connection enabling the user to just "push the button and talk." Also called "dispatch radio," two-way radio has traditionally been used by police, fire, taxi and other mobile fleets. market. "This agreement with SPIRIT achieves our objective of providing communication product designers with a single, highly integrated IC for their low bit-rate voice processing requirements," said Malcolm Lyman, Marketing Manager CML Microcircuits (UK) Ltd. "Historically within our target markets, equipment designers have had very little choice in terms of standard IC products for high-quality, low bit-rate vocoding applications and have had to pay high initial licence fees and ongoing royalties to use available technology. Our agreement with SPIRIT and the resulting IC products will bring highly integrated, cost-effective IC's to the market that are both licence and royalty-free". "We are proud to partner with CML to integrate our leading edge vocoder technology within CML's mixed-signal IC's. SPIRIT's position as the world's leading provider of voice-processing technology and CML's extensive experience in the global Two-Way Radio markets provide a very powerful solution for equipment designers across the world", said Slava Borilin, VP Products, SPIRIT DSP." CML is now providing limited sampling, with full production expected at the end of Q1 2007. About CML CML Microcircuits is a member of the CML Microsystems Plc group (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor : CML.L), specialising in the design, development and marketing of extremely low-power semiconductor products for Global Wireless and Wireline communications applications. Founded in 1968, the company is headquartered near London, UK with strategic locations in the USA, Singapore and China. About SPIRIT DSP SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap See boot. (operating system, compiler) bootstrap - To load and initialise the operating system on a computer. Normally abbreviated to "boot". From the curious expression "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", one of the legendary feats of Baron von Munchhausen. company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 14 years. For the last 10 years SPIRIT's focus has been communication, speech and VoIP software products. Today SPIRIT counts among its clients Adobe, Agere, ARM, Atmel, Compal, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing , Kyocera, LG, Marconi, MediaRing, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nortel Networks, Oracle, Paltalk, Panasonic, Philips Semiconductor, Polycom, Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Trinity Convergence, among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. Under these brand names SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels. SPIRIT DSP is a member of major voice-related developer communities, including Intel(R) Developer Network, ARM(R) Connected Community, Philips Nexperia Partnership, TI Third Party Network, TI OMAP OMAP Office of Medical Assistance Programs (Oregon Department of Human Services) OMAP Open Multimedia Applications Platform (Texas Instruments semiconductor operating system) Developer Network for Wireless handsets and PDAs. SeeStorm is SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing. |
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