Silicon Laboratories Offers Autodetect Dual Interface DAAs To Support Intel High Definition Audio Standard.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2004 Si3054 and Si3024 Silicon DAAs Ease Migration to New Standard Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq:SLAB) today announced the Si3054 and Si3024 dual interface silicon direct access arrangements (DAAs), the industry's first DAAs to configure automatically to either an AC'97 interface or the new Intel(R) High Definition Audio interface. Silicon Laboratories' new Si3054 and Si3024 DAAs are fully hardware and pin compatible with the company's industry-leading AC'97 solutions allowing customers to immediately support High Definition Audio without changing the schematic, layout or bill-of-materials (BOM) of existing AC'97 modem cards. Silicon Laboratories' unique autodetect feature recognizes the AC'97 and High Definition Audio interface and configures the DAA DAA - Distributed Application Architecture: under design by Hewlett-Packard and Sun. A distributed object management environment that will allow applications to be developed independent of operating system, network or windowing system. accordingly allowing customers to implement a single global modem layout or printed circuit board (PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. ) daughter card independent of the core logic used in the system. The dual interface and autodetect capabilities enable existing qualified modems to support new High Definition Audio products while continuing to support their existing high-volume AC'97 platforms. When combined with the already proven global compliance of Silicon Laboratories' DAAs, the Si3054 and Si3024 devices allow one hardware design to meet all major standards and interoperate with any x86 motherboard. The result is a low-cost, backward-compatible solution that can significantly reduce engineering and PTT (1) (Postal, Telegraph & Telephone) The governmental agency responsible for combined postal, telegraph and telephone services in many European countries. (2) See push-to-talk. PTT - Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration compliance costs, while easing the design and manufacturing process. "Silicon Laboratories worked closely with Intel during the development and introduction of High Definition Audio. Our unique autodetect feature offers our customers unparalleled flexibility by taking the risk and complexity out of supporting products with legacy and new core logic standards. Our customers will now have the ability to migrate to High Definition Audio while still supporting AC'97 products with a single modem SKU (StockKeeping Unit) The number of one specific product available for sale. If a hardware device or software package comes in different versions, there is an SKU for each one. SKU - stock-keeping unit ," said Dave Bresemann, vice president of Silicon Laboratories. "This value-added feature, combined with our high level of integration, global compliance and field experience, furthers Silicon Laboratories' leadership in silicon DAAs." With nearly 100 patents issued or filed on its DAA technology, Silicon Laboratories' latest DAAs reduce required board space by 75 percent and component count by 50 percent. Both the Si3054 and Si3024 DAA chipsets eliminate the need for an analog front end, an isolation transformer An isolation transformer is a transformer, often with symmetrical windings, which is used to decouple two circuits. An isolation transformer allows an AC signal or power to be taken from one device and fed into another without electrically connecting the two circuits. , relays, opto-isolators and a two- to four-wire hybrid. Silicon Laboratories' DAAs are globally programmable to meet global telephone line standards including FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. , TBR TBR Tennessee Board of Regents TBR Technology Business Research TBR To Be Read TBR Travel Business Roundtable TBR To Be Resolved TBR To Be Reviewed TBR Technical Basis for Regulation TBR To Be Recorded TBR Total Business Return TBR To Be Revised 21, JATE JATE Jack and Kate (TV show Lost) JATE Joint Air Transport Establishment (UK) JATE Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Terminal Equipment , and country-specific PTTs and safety and emissions requirements. Pricing and Availability The Si3054 and Si3024 are global DAA chipsets including a system-side and a line-side device packaged in low-profile 16-pin SOIC (Small Outline IC) A small-dimension, plastic, rectangular, surface mount chip package that uses gull-wing pins extending outward. See gull-wing lead, SOJ and chip package. or TSSOP TSSOP Thin Shrink Small Outline Package TSSOP Thin Scale Small Outline Package packages. The Si3054 chipset is available now in an SOIC package for $4.12 in quantities of 10,000. The Si3024 chipset is also available now for $3.89 in quantities of 10,000. Silicon Laboratories Inc. Silicon Laboratories Inc. is a leading designer of high-performance, analog-intensive mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for a broad range of applications. Silicon Laboratories' diverse portfolio of highly integrated, patented solutions is developed by a world-class engineering team with decades of cumulative expertise in cutting-edge mixed-signal design. The company has design, engineering, marketing, sales and applications offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information about Silicon Laboratories please visit www.silabs.com. Cautionary Language This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on Silicon Laboratories' current expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Silicon Laboratories believes that it is important to communicate the company's future expectations to investors. However, there may be events in the future that Silicon Laboratories is not able to accurately predict or control. For a discussion of these and other factors that could impact Silicon Laboratories' financial results and cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, please refer to Silicon Laboratories' recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. filed January 26, 2004, and the 10-Q filed April 26, 2004. Note to editors: Silicon Laboratories and the Silicon Laboratories logo are trademarks of Silicon Laboratories Inc. All other product names noted herein may be trademarks of their respective holders. |
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