Core Logic Now Runs SPIRIT Voice on its Mobile Processors.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- 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 , the world's leading provider of embedded voice, video and audio engines, today announced that Core Logic Inc. (KDQ: 048870), a global leader in mobile multimedia system-on-a-chip (SoC) products, has integrated SPIRIT voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. solution into its Multimedia Application Processor (MAP) targeted for mobile phone OEMs. The Core Logic MAP is an ARM-based dedicated multimedia accelerator for multimedia-enabled mobile handsets. The MAP is already deployed by major Asia-based phone manufacturers. "The Asian vendors of low-cost semiconductors now realize the need for high-quality software, and SPIRIT value proposition is exactly what they need." said Sukjoong Lee, senior executive VP and COO of Core Logic, Inc. "SPIRIT voice processing technologies are excellent. Thanks to SPIRIT now we enhance the competitiveness of mobile phone makers more than ever." "Recently SPIRIT has announced its significant expansion to Asia," commented Alex Kravchenko, VP Sales&Marketing of SPIRIT DSP. "A Korean company, Core Logic has shipped out over 25 million MAPs last year to major handset manufacturers in Asia, including several top-ranked Chinese handset makers. This exciting cooperation with Core Logic allowed SPIRIT to make another step forward in our penetration to the Asian market. No matter how an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and designs the mobile phone - using just baseband chip, powerful application processor or adding dedicated multimedia accelerator - all these processors are supported by SPIRIT solution for great voice quality along with extremely low power consumption." About SPIRIT 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 voice, audio, video and data communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers 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 , Interwise, Kyocera, LG, 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, Quanta quan·ta n. Plural of quantum. , Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Trinity Convergence, among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. 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 IntelR 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. About Core Logic, Inc. Core Logic, established in 1998, has accumulated leading edge semiconductor design technology and Digital Imaging Technology and provides End-to-End Total Solution from core parts of multimedia mobile phone such as CAP, MAP, ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. , etc. to various Interface Mechanisms and System-level Hardware Module. First of all, it has strived for continuous technology innovation and exploited world market to be listed in Kosdaq in the year 2004 and ranked as super-speed growing 500 companies in Asia-Pacific by Deloitte in the year 2005. It has been growing as a cutting-edge company that leads growth of multimedia, the future of mobile products. For more information, visit www.corelogic.co.kr . |
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