V3 Announces PCI Card for TeraLogic's Cougar DTV Platform.SANTA CLARA, Calif./TORONTO, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 1999--V3 Semiconductor (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 : VVVI) announced today that TeraLogic, Inc. will offer V3's Hurricane PCI card in their Cougar cougar: see puma. cougar or puma or mountain lion or panther Species (Puma concolor) of large, graceful cat that lives in a wide variety of habitats in the Americas, from southern Alaska to Patagonia. DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. reference design. TeraLogic's Cougar Platform incorporates V3's Hurricane PCI card along with other hardware, software, and peripherals for fast time-to-market and design flexibility. This advanced development platform offers multimedia capabilities. It is ideal for designing PersonalJava, Open Cable and Windows CE compliant set top boxes, Digital TV sets, and DTV/PC products. The Hurricane PCI card features V3 Semiconductor's "Hot Swap Ready" V320USC-75LP chip. This is a PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). system bridge controller that directly supports MIPs and Hitachi SuperH 32/64 bit microprocessors. MIPs vendors are best known for their performance edge in the embedded market, targeted for products in media processing, graphics and consumer electronics. Hitachi is a leader in two markets: video games (Sega) and handheld computers, while they continue to successfully expand in digital cameras, automotive electronics and in the telecommunications markets. The V320USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. is ideally suited for PCI applications such as Microsoft Windows CE, telecom, industrial control, and networking-internet and network appliances. "V3's relationship with TeraLogic is significant, because it marks our two companies' position in the emerging DTV market, while at the same time it helps launch V3 Semiconductor's PCI Bridge Controllers into a new and exciting market segment. The joint V3 and TeraLogic initiative is expected to pay dividends as new customers adopt our cutting edge technologies," says John Zambakkides, President & 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 V3 Semiconductor. "Combining V3's high-performance Hurricane PCI card with our Cougar platform enables us to give our OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers a complete reference board for developing and testing DTV products," commented Mark O'Brien, Director of Business Development at TeraLogic. "The Cougar platform provides a time-to-market advantage by saving engineering teams months of hardware and software development efforts." V3 SEMICONDUCTOR INC., the Embedded Intelligence Company, is a manufacturer of integrated circuits for the embedded systems market. V3 Semiconductor's clients include: Ascend Communications, Cisco Systems, Data General Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Eastman Kodak Company, Hewlett Packard Company, Hitachi America Ltd., International Business Machines (IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ), Northern Telecom and Bay Networks (Nortel Networks), Matsushita Corporation (Panasonic), Samsung Telecommunications, Toshiba Corporation, Xerox Corporation and other large corporations. To contact us please call V3 Semiconductor at 1-800-488-8410 or visit our Internet Web site at http://www.vcubed.com for current product information and ongoing announcements. |
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