X-Winds Technology Licenses Font Fusion and Fonts From Bitstream.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & CHU-BEI CITY, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2002 X-Winds Benefits From Accelerated Time-to-Market by Utilizing Font Fusion Bitstream Font Fusion is a small, fast, object-oriented font engine written in ANSI C capable of rendering high-quality text on any platform, any device, and at any resolution. The entire source code is portable, optimized, and executes independent of operating system and processor. and LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic's Software Development Platform Bitstream Inc. (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 : BITS) and X-Winds Technology Inc. announced today that X-Winds has licensed Font Fusion(TM) (Bitstream's premier font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine) and complementary fonts to enhance its line of set-top box 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. products. X-Winds selected the Font Fusion library for its ability to accelerate the design process and render high-quality characters on screen. "Building Bitstream's font technology into our product line will increase the legibility and readability of on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. text in digital set-top boxes," said Ben Ting, Sales Specialist, X-Winds Technology, Inc. "We selected Bitstream because of the company's reputation for creating superior font technology. Bitstream's Font Fusion provides the best solution for our customers, who demand high quality in their products." X-Winds is utilizing both the LSI Logic library version of Font Fusion and LSI Logic's set-top box software development platform (SDP (Session Description Protocol) An IETF protocol that defines a text-based message format for describing a multimedia session. Data such as version number, contact information, broadcast times and audio and video encoding types are included in the message. 2005) to develop interactive set-top boxes. Together, Bitstream's solution and the LSI Logic SDP2005 can display high-quality fonts while supporting multiple languages and preserving system memory. This combination of products enables set-top box developers like X-Winds to reduce system costs and speed time-to-market. "LSI Logic's system-on-a-chip model is leading the way in turnkey solutions for manufacturers who want to get their product built and delivered to market quickly," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "X-Winds is one of many manufacturers who uses LSI Logic's design platform, so we are very pleased that X-Winds chose the complementary Font Fusion library. We expect X-Winds to be a key player in the set-top box market." "Through our continued relationship with Bitstream, we're giving set-top box manufacturers the ability to simplify the design process, while easily customizing their product solutions," said Brian Johnson, Director of Product Marketing for LSI Logic's Broadband Entertainment division. "Set-top box developers need to support worldwide languages and the LSI Logic/Bitstream product combination addresses this need by providing a cost-effective, off-the-shelf solution." About Font Fusion Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic See typography. output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. Font Fusion is small and fast. Most developers can compile the source code in 32-105 KB, depending on options. It generates more than 16,000 characters per second, using the Arial font at 25 lines per em on a 233MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium(R) II processor, cache turned off. Font Fusion performs well in memory- and performance-constrained environments. For example, a complete traditional Chinese TrueType font with over 13,000 characters can occupy as much as 8MB. With Font Fusion, the same characters occupy less than 0.5MB, representing considerable savings in memory and disk space costs. Font Fusion is designed for operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television high-definition television (HDTV) Any system producing significantly greater picture resolution than that of the ordinary 525-line (625-line in Europe) television screen. Conventional television transmits signals in analog form. screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other 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. and information and wireless appliances. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R) and Font Fusion(TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream is currently developing ThunderHawk(TM), a breakthrough technology for the wireless Web. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. . Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. About X-Winds Technology X-Winds Technology Co., Ltd., was established January 1, 2000, and is a high-tech company specializing in the research and development of products for digital video broadcasting, specifically digital set-top boxes for satellite, cable, and terrestrial broadcasting. X-Winds' R&D team will make these products multi-functional by integrating them with the Internet, online shopping, and video on-demand, which will enable users to enjoy the interactive Internet world. X-Winds Technology is headquartered in Taiwan. Contact X-Winds Technology at 886-3-5515677 or on the Web at http://www.x-winds.com. About LSI Logic LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LSI) is a leading designer and manufacturer of communications, consumer and storage semiconductors for applications that access, interconnect and store data, voice and video. In addition, the company supplies storage network solutions for the enterprise. LSI Logic is headquartered at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, CA 95035, 866-574-5741 (within U.S.), 719-533-7679 (outside U.S.), http://www.lsilogic.com. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and ThunderHawk are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. 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