Embedded Internet Solutions and Bitstream Announce Agreement to Bring Complete Font Rendering Solution to iPanel MicroBrowser.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Leading provider of embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. solutions for digital TV set-top boxes licenses Bitstream's premier font rendering engine and compact Asian fonts Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BITS) and Embedded Internet Solutions (EIS (1) (Executive Information System) An information system that consolidates and summarizes ongoing transactions within the organization. It provides top management with all the information it requires at all times from internal and external sources. ) announced today that EIS has signed an agreement with Bitstream to license Font Fusion Bitstream Font Fusion is a small, fast, object-oriented font engine written in ANSI C capable of rendering high-quality text on any platform, any device, and at any resolution. The entire source code is portable, optimized, and executes independent of operating system and processor. (R) (Bitstream's premier font rendering engine), Bitstream's compact stroke-based Asian fonts, and Bitstream's Thai and Vietnamese fonts for its iPanel Digital TV middleware. Embedded Internet Solutions' iPanel middleware is the most popular middleware solution for the Asia-Pacific digital TV market. iPanel middleware delivers rich interactive applications with low hardware requirements. iPanel middleware solutions include client software for set-top boxes, head-end delivery systems, application development platforms, and authoring tools. "Bitstream's Font Fusion technology provides EIS a strong component to build iPanel middleware solutions for the China digital TV market. The small footprint of Bitstream's stroke-based font and the versatile rendering engine help to make iPanel a more competitive product," said Ryan Xu, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of EIS. "As the market for embedded software accelerates, scalable font A font that is created in the required point size when needed for display or printing. The dot patterns (bitmaps) are generated from a set of outline fonts, or base fonts, which contain a mathematical representation of the typeface. rendering and compact Asian fonts add significant value to wireless, handheld, and interactive TV products," stated Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream. "Bitmaps are no longer acceptable. Font Fusion, our premier font rendering engine, delivers outstanding scalable technology in a very small footprint. For developers creating embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. software and hardware, Bitstream's Font Fusion will play a key role in the rapid acceptance of mobile and iTV applications. We are pleased to add Embedded Internet Solutions to our list of customers in this growing market segment." About Font Fusion Font Fusion is Bitstream's premier font subsystem, rendering high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any software platform or hardware device. Delivering exceptional text rendering for consumer electronics devices and embedded systems, Font Fusion also provides the best possible text output for TV of any solution on the market today. Font Fusion is both small and fast. Developers can compile the source code in 35-105 KB, depending on options enabled. A typical compilation is 67 KB, which includes the core font engine and support for TrueType, OpenType, and stroke-based Asian fonts. Font Fusion generates more than 37,000 characters per second on a 450MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium II processor, rendering a TrueType font at 25 lines per em. About Compact Stroke-Based Asian Fonts Besides licensing Font Fusion, Embedded Internet Solutions also licensed Bitstream's stroke-based fonts, which are extremely compact, high-quality Asian fonts for embedded systems. These fonts enable developers to keep storage and memory requirements to a minimum. Developers do not have to dedicate a large amount of ROM space to store a stroke-based font, nor do they have to use a lot of memory to display it. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) enables customers worldwide to render high-quality text, browse the Web on wireless devices, select from the largest collection of fonts online, and customize documents over the Internet. Its core competencies include font technology, browsing technology, e-commerce technology, and publishing technology. For more information, please visit Bitstream at www.bitstream.com. About Embedded Internet Solutions Embedded Internet Solutions, Inc. is a leading technology provider of embedded software solutions that enable Internet connectivity for devices. Its iPanel(TM) middleware powers communities of cable TV and IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. set-top boxes in the Asia-Pacific market, and its iPanel WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. 2.0 browser is widely deployed by many mobile network carriers in Asia-Pacific and North America. The company also provides system integration and professional services to facilitate quick time to market by major consumer electronic OEMs in cable and satellite TV, handheld PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). , smartphone, and other information appliance categories. EIS is privately-held and venture-backed with development and customer support organizations in Silicon Valley, CA and Shenzhen China. For more information, please visit Embedded Internet Solutions at www.embisoft.com. Bitstream and Font Fusion are registered trademarks and the Bitstream logo is a trademark of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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