Philips Semiconductors Taps Tality to Accelerate New DTV Product Introduction.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2001 Partnership Expands Philips Semiconductors' Ability to Meet Growing Demand for Digital TV Application Products Philips Semiconductors, a division of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : PHG, AEX AEX See: Amsterdam Exchange : PHI phi n. Symbol  The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.PHI, n See health information, protected. ), and Tality Corporation, a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , Inc. (NYSE:CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ), today announced the signing of a multi-year partnership agreement targeted at delivery of advanced chips to meet the escalating demand for digital TV applications. Tality has dedicated a team of engineers from its Livingston, Scotland facility to team with Philips Semiconductors on the design of encoders, decoders, and controllers for both TVs and set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. . Philips Semiconductors is the world's largest supplier of chips for existing analog TVs. The company is building on this leadership position in analog to rapidly usher in Verb 1. usher in - be a precursor of; "The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period" inaugurate, introduce commence, lead off, start, begin - set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. the age of digital TV with market leading products. For example, its Nexperia(TM) Home Entertainment Engines offer the flexibility and cost-effectiveness needed to enable the global digital revolution. Partnering with Tality offers Philips Semiconductors an effective mechanism to expand their internal capability and increase the number of new products and derivatives it can introduce into the fast growing market for digital TV chips. Engaging Tality engineers to perform derivatives of its latest digital TV chips enables Philips Semiconductors to focus its engineering resources on the design of next generation product platforms. "Partnering with a proven business partner like Tality is the most efficient way for us to quickly increase digital TV chip design capacity and meet the demand stimulated by our own design successes," said Leon Husson, executive vice president - Consumer Businesses, Philips Semiconductors. "This agreement will allow us to help all our customers reduce the time to market -- from system concept to availability -- which is critical to the success of all new digital consumer products." "Philips is a true powerhouse in the digital TV chip marketplace," said Ajay Shingal, vice president and general manager of Tality's Digital IC design group. "This partnership agreement is the result of Tality consistently demonstrating over the past year world-class engineering capability, which has a measurable impact on Philips Semiconductors' ability to deliver leading products." ABOUT PHILIPS SEMICONDUCTORS Philips Semiconductors, which had annual revenues of approximately US$6.3 billion in 2000, designs and manufactures semiconductors and silicon systems platforms. Philips Semiconductors is spearheading the emerging field of systems on silicon solutions with the innovative Nexperia(TM) platform and VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Velocity(TM) tool set. The company's Sea-of-IP design methodology allows plug and play intellectual property blocks for easily customizable products. The company is a leader in communications, consumer, PC peripherals and automotive semiconductors, which are key applications for convergence in end-user products. Philips Semiconductors is headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and has operations throughout the world. For more information: www.philips.semiconductors.com. ABOUT TALITY Tality Corporation, formerly the Electronic Design Services group of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN), was launched as a separate company in October 2000. With more than 1,100 engineers located in 14 design sites worldwide, Tality is the world's largest independent provider of engineering services and intellectual property for the design of complex electronic systems and 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. . Tality is headquartered at 555 River Oaks Parkway, Building No. 3, San Jose, Calif., 95134. www.tality.com. Note to Editors: Tality is a trademark of Tality, LP and its general partner, Tality Corporation. Cadence cadence, in music, the ending of a phrase or composition. In singing the voice may be raised or lowered, or the singer may execute elaborate variations within the key. is a registered trademark of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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