Philips Semiconductors and Zayante to Offer Complete HAVi Solution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 Total Solution Enables Consumer Electronics Products With Seamless Interoperability and New Levels of User-Friendliness Philips Semiconductors, an affiliate of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PHG), today announced a new phase in its partnership with Zayante, the world's leader in 1394 software, to offer a complete HAVi(TM) solution. By combining Philips Semiconductors' leading-edge HAVi technology with Zayante's TNF TNF abbr. tumor necrosis factor TNF, n an abbreviation for tumor necrosis f (TM) software, the two companies are able to offer developers a complete, integrated commercial quality solution, fully compliant with the HAVi 1.0 specification and 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. 1394-1995 and 1394a standards for a high performance serial bus. With this complete solution, consumer electronics devices will provide the end-user with the benefits of both the 1394 high performance plug and play technology and the seamless, user-friendly, totally automatic distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. enabled by the HAVi specification. Written in ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. 'C' and designed for embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. , the Philips Semiconductors/Zayante solution is highly portable, with versions that will soon be available for all major Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ) and common embedded processors. The solution supports all classes of HAVi devices, including the "Full A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Refers to equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and device (FAV FAV Favorite FAV Favorable FAV Fruits And Vegetables (growers, farmers) FAV Fast Attack Vehicle FAV Fuerza Aérea Venezolana (Venezuelan Air Force) FAV Final Acute Value )" which incorporates a JAVA byte-code interpreter (software) byte-code interpreter - A program that executes a byte code program. An example is the Java Virtual Machine. for executing control sequences exported by other HAVi devices on the 1394 network. "By extending its cooperation with Zayante, Philips Semiconductors furthers its commitment to extend networking capability to the digital consumer electronics market," said Philip Pollok, vice president and general manager of Philips Semiconductors' Networking Business Line. "We not only provide the best and most complete 1394 technology available today, we also offer one-stop shopping for a 1394 solution, and greatly enhance the developer's time-to-market. The combination of Zayante's 1394 unparalleled software architecture and Philips Semiconductors' HAVi expertise and semiconductor technology provides our customers with the highest quality 1394 systems solutions." "We are pleased that Philips is basing its HAVi solution on the Zayante TNF (Thirteen Ninety-Four) software, which they recently licensed from us," said Prashant Kanhere, Zayante's president. "The HAVi specification provides the final and most important element in giving the consumer a new level of ease of use and seamless interoperability, and we are particularly pleased to be working with Philips Semiconductors, one of the key originators of HAVi and a HAVi consortium founding member. Our agreement with Philips enables Zayante to take another important step in our commitment to provide the best available 1394 software solutions to our customers." Setting Standards Philips Semiconductors' participation in the 1394 Trade Association, and the HAVi(TM) consortium, combined with Zayante's participation in the 1394 standards committees and unparalleled expertise in 1394 software development, positions Philips Semiconductors at the forefront of defining how 1394 will work and perform. Philips Semiconductors facilitates the development of 1394 products by porting to a variety of RTOS and CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. combinations. Additionally, Philips Semiconductors now has access to technologies from some of the best 1394 engineers available. This means that any 1394 product purchased from Philips Semiconductors is of the highest quality. Pricing and Availability The 1394 solution will be available for evaluation and demonstrations Q4 2000 and the complete roll out is targeted for Q1 2001. The Philips Semiconductors 1394 HAVi solution starts at $125,000. About Zayante Zayante, Inc. is dedicated to being the full-service leader in providing network-ready 1394 home networking silicon and software products and services to manufacturers of computing and consumer electronics devices and related semiconductor chips. Based in Scotts Valley, Calif., the company was founded in 1996 by the visionaries and primary developers of 1394 technology from Apple Computer Inc. It is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. supported by venture capital from Sigma Partners Sigma Partners is a major venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Boston. Sigma Partners invests in early-stage information technology companies (semiconductor, software and hardware). The firm was founded in 1984 by J. Burgess Jamieson and C. Bradford Jeffries. and Japanese investors. Zayante's complete architectural approach, encompassing BridgeWise silicon technologies and its Radically Distributed Network Architecture (R/DNA) software implementations, together with its unrivaled 1394 technology expertise, puts the company in a class of its own. More information is available at http://www.zayante.com. About Philips Semiconductors Philips Semiconductors, which has annual revenues of approximately $5 billion, 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(TM) 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. Note to Editors: Zayante, the Zayante logo, TNF, BridgeWise, Radically Distributed Network Architecture and R/DNA are trademarks of Zayante, Inc. HAVi is a trademark of GRUNDIG AG, Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Royal Philips Electronics N.V., Sharp Corp., Sony Corp., Thomson multimedia S.A. and Toshiba Corp. |
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