Freescale Enters France Telecom's Turbo Code Licensing Program for 3G Applications.SAN DIEGO -- Spectra Licensing Group today announced that France Telecom (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FTE FTE Full-Time Equivalent FTE Full-Time Employee FTE Full-Time Equivalency FTE Full Time Employment FTE Foundation for Teaching Economics FTE Full Time Enrollment FTE For the Enterprise (SQL) FTE Fund for Theological Education ), a world-leading communications carrier and innovator through its research and development group, and Freescale Semiconductors (NYSE:FSL FSL - Formal Semantics Language. A language for compiler writing. ["A Formal Semantics for Computer Languages and its Application in a Compiler-Compiler", J.A. Feldman, CACM 9(1) (Jan 1966)]. [Sammet 1969, p. 641]. ), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions worldwide, have entered into a fee-bearing patent license agreement under France Telecom's Turbo Code Licensing Program. Under terms of the agreement France Telecom has granted Freescale a worldwide license to France Telecom's seminal Turbo Code patents for use in Freescale's third-generation (3G) wireless communications products. Invented by Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux of Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST ENST Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (Paris, France) ) in Brittany, France, Turbo Codes have been adopted by both the 3GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol (UMTS/W-CDMA) and 3GPP2 (CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. 2000) standards to enable higher network data capacity in CDMA systems enabling broadband services. With increases in network capacity and power efficiencies close to the theoretical "Shannon limit," the theoretical limit predicted by mathematician Claude Shannon, Turbo Codes are a revolutionary form of forward error correction A communications technique that can correct bad data on the receiving end. Before transmission, the data are processed through an algorithm that adds extra bits for error correction. If the transmitted message is received in error, the correction bits are used to repair it. , one of the fundamental building blocks of any type of digital communication. "We are pleased to license a leader in wireless communications such as Freescale," said Erik Johnson, Director of Sales and Marketing for Spectra Licensing Group. "This agreement represents a significant step in the evolution of the Turbo Code Licensing Program and our ability to work with manufacturers developing Turbo Codes in 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 and ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. solutions for the 3G market." About Spectra Licensing Group, LLC Spectra Licensing Group, LLC, with offices in Rancho Bernardo, Calif., is the worldwide licensing agent for France Telecom's Turbo Code Licensing Program. Spectra Licensing enables access to Turbo Code licensing for communications product developers and vendors. By facilitating the licensing efforts of France Telecom and prospective licensees, Spectra Licensing provides a single source for Turbo Code licensing. For more information on Spectra Licensing Group and the Turbo Code Licensing Program, visit http://www.spectralicensing.com About Freescale Semiconductor Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B) (http://www.freescale.com) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing, or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies, with 2004 sales of $5.7 billion. About France Telecom France Telecom (http://www.francetelecom.com/fr/groupe/rd) puts technological innovation at the heart of its concerns. With 4,200 researchers and 7,300 patents, its R&D is the engine of its innovation capability, in France and abroad. Its role is to anticipate technological revolutions and new uses, providing innovation to offer customers the best from telecommunications, simultaneously imagining today the technologies which will be part of their daily life tomorrow. Its R&D's results have put the Group in the leading position in the world in terms of telecommunications research and development. Established on 16 sites, including 8 abroad (London, San Francisco, Boston, Tokyo, Varsow, Beijing, Seoul, New Delhi), the researchers of France Telecom are involved in the design and the development of approximately 70% of the products of the group. |
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