CSR and Sonaptic Partnership Brings Stereo Enhancement and Bass Boost Technologies To CSR's Multimedia Bluetooth Solution.CAMBRIDGE, England -- CSR plc (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. ): o -- Ref: EME n. 1. An uncle. 9953 o -- Photo ref: PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) A standard for secure e-mail on the Internet. It supports encryption, digital signatures and digital certificates as well as both private and public key methods. Not widely used, work on PEM later evolved into S/MIME. See MIME. 4735 o -- To download: http://www.csr.com/images/hires/pem4735.jpg CSR plc and Sonaptic today announced that Sonaptic Sound Engine(TM)technology is now available on CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia silicon. Sonaptic is the latest in a series of CSR eXtension Partners - a programme designed to offer mobile device manufacturers the highest quality and most feature-rich Bluetooth audio solution available. The Sonaptic Sound Engine offers either mono or stereo audio expansion for Bluetooth headphones and speakers using CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia silicon. Sonaptic technology also brings bass-boost and equalization In communications, techniques used to reduce distortion and compensate for signal loss (attenuation) over long distances. features to CSR's BlueCore boosting the quality and functionality of Bluetooth headphones. The Sonaptic Sound Engine also supports both MP3 and SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. decoding for the most common music formats; whilst the automatic gain control ensures that high quality audio is maintained even in conditions of varying input levels. CSR has designed the eXtension Partner Programme to allow the most advanced software features and functionality such as Sonaptic's Sound Engine to be easily added to CSR's BlueCore multimedia product offering. These software elements then further boost the feature set and quality of end-products fitted with CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia Bluetooth silicon. CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia is the ideal platform to support such third party software because it includes a powerful integrated 64 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. 24-bit 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 . Kevin Carey, Product Manager, Sonaptic commented, "Sonaptic Sound Engine expands conventional stereo sound, giving it a warmth and richness that reveals details in the music that listeners would expect from their living room hi-fi." Carey continued, "CSR's multimedia Bluetooth architecture offers Kalimba, CSR's own powerful integrated DSP that provides the ideal platform for hosting our Sound Engine". Richard Ord, SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul of CSR's Wireless Audio strategic business unit (SBU SBU St. Bonaventure University (St. Bonaventure, New York) SBU Stony Brook University (State University of New York) SBU Southwest Baptist University (Bolivar, MO) ) commented, "CSR is alone in the industry in integrating a DSP into our multimedia BlueCore products. BlueCore5-Multimedia incorporates our most powerful DSP yet at 64 MIPS and the on-chip memory means that we can offer our customers so much more value through our eXtension partnerships." Ord continued, "Sonaptic stereo and bass enhancement technologies enable our customers to bring hi-fi quality to wireless stereo products using CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia silicon." BlueCore5-Multimedia offers superior sound quality for headset, hands-free and mobile devices applications with a best-in-class signal to noise ratio of -95dB. BlueCore5-Multimedia also leads the industry for power consumption and radio design. The radio transmits at +6.5dBm and receives at -90dBm which eliminates interference when listening to music or taking a call. When used in stereo headset applications, BlueCore5-Multimedia enables industry-leading battery life of more than 24 hours of music playback. About CSR CSR is the leading global provider of personal wireless technology and its product portfolio covers Bluetooth, FM receivers and WiFi (IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11). CSR offers developed hardware/software solutions, based around its silicon platforms, that incorporate, fully integrated radio, baseband and microcontroller elements. CSR's customers include industry leaders such as Apple, Dell, LG, Motorola, 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. , Nokia, Panasonic, RIM, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TomTom and Toshiba. CSR has its headquarters and offices in Cambridge, UK, and offices in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, India, France, Denmark, Sweden and both Dallas and Detroit in the USA. More information can be found at www.csr.com. About Sonaptic With Sonaptic, people enjoy a unique natural listening experience. Sonaptic's pioneering technologies - Digital Silence[TM], Sound Engine[TM] and SoundStage[TM] - create the most immersive audio experience for today's lifestyles. Digital Silence delivers pure, comfortable silence for people using phones and other audio devices in noisy environments. Sonaptic's Sound Engine and SoundStage enable hi-fi quality sound on handheld, portable and home equipment. Founded in 2003, Sonaptic has its headquarters near London, UK, and offices in Tokyo, Seoul and Austin, Texas. Users of Sonaptic audio technology include the device manufacturers NEC, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Motorola and Sharp, the semiconductor vendors ROHM and Yamaha and the network service provider NTT DoCoMo. |
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