iBiquity Digital Picks Tensilica's Xtensa Configurable Processors for Select HD Radio Solutions; iBiquity to Resell Tensilica's Processors as Part of Their HD Radio IP Offering.SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Tensilica(R), Inc. today announced that iBiquity Digital Corporation of Columbia, MD, has licensed Tensilica's Xtensa(R) LX configurable processors, including the market leading HiFi2 audio engine, to provide digital baseband and audio processing for many HD Radio(TM) receivers. iBiquity will also become a value-added reseller of Tensilica's technology, bundling it into select iBiquity silicon Intellectual Property (IP) offerings marketed to major semiconductor companies. iBiquity is the sole developer of digital HD Radio technology, providing the innovations that allow the transmission of digital audio and data along with existing AM and FM analog signals. Besides delivering vastly superior sound that virtually eliminates the static and hiss often associated with analog radio, iBiquity's technology provides a platform for advanced new services including HD2 multicasting, enabling FM stations to broadcast multiple streams of unique programming over a single frequency. More than 3,000 stations in the U.S. are in the process of upgrading to iBiquity's digital HD Radio technology, with nearly 1,000 on the air and approximately 350 offering HD2 multicast channels. In addition, the technology is gaining visibility throughout the world. "We chose Tensilica's configurable processor technology because it provided a common processor platform that could be optimized for both the digital baseband and audio portions of our design," stated Gene Parrella, iBiquity's vice president of IC Development. "We were also very impressed with Tensilica's area and power efficient processor technology. Both silicon area efficiency and low-power for portability are essential for our customers." "iBiquity was able to use different configurations of our processors to optimize different parts of their highly innovative HD Radio design," stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica's vice president of marketing. "And as a fellow IP provider, we were able to work with iBiquity to put together an innovative business model so they can pass our processor technology on to their licensees." About iBiquity Digital iBiquity Digital Corporation is the sole developer and licenser of digital HD Radio technology, the only digital broadcast system approved by the 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. for AM and FM radio in the U.S. iBiquity Digital's investors include 15 of the nation's top radio broadcasters, including ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , Clear Channel and CBS Radio; leading financial institutions, such as Grotech Capital Group, J.P. Morgan Partners, New Venture Partners, Pequot Capital and J&W Seligman; and strategic partners Ford Motor Company, Harris, Texas Instruments and Visteon. Named one of Deloitte's Fast 500 Companies, iBiquity Digital 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. with operations in Columbia, MD, Detroit, MI, and Warren, NJ. For more information please visit: www.ibiquity.com. About Tensilica Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, 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. and specialty DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive processors on the market today, in both an off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard Series cores and with full designer configurability with the Xtensa processor family. Tensilica's low-power, benchmark proven processors have been designed into high-volume products at industry leaders in the digital consumer, networking and telecommunications markets. All Tensilica processor cores are complete with a matching software development tool environment, portfolio of system simulation models, and hardware implementation tool support. For more information on Tensilica's patented approach to the creation of application-specific building blocks for SOC design, visit www.tensilica.com. Editors' Notes: --Tensilica and Xtensa are registered trademarks belonging to Tensilica Inc. HD Radio is a trademark of iBiquity Digital Corporation. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. --Tensilica's announced licensees include ALPS, AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) (JNI (Java Native Interface) A programming interface (API) in Sun's Java Virtual Machine used for calling native platform elements such as GUI routines. RNI (Raw Native Interface) is the JNI counterpart in Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine. JNI - Java Native Interface Corporation), Aquantia, Astute Networks, Atheros, ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. , Avago Technologies, Avision, Bay Microsystems, Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems, Cypress, Crimson Microsystems, ETRI ETRI Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea) ETRI Enhanced Threat Reduction Initiative ETRI Electronics Telecommunication Research Inc. , FUJIFILM Microdevices, Fujitsu Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes Network Systems Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HNS), is a provider of broadband satellite network products for businesses and consumers. HNS pioneered the development of high-speed satellite Internet access services and IP-based networks with its original DirecPC service but which it now markets , iBiquity Digital, Ikanos Communications, LG Electronics, Lucid Information Technology, Marvell, MediaWorks, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Laboratories America, NEC Corporation, NetEffect, Neterion, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform ), NVIDIA, Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., PnpNetwork Technologies, sci-worx, Seiko Epson, Solid State Systems, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Stretch, TranSwitch Corporation, u-Nav Microelectronics,Victor Company of Japan (JVC) and WiQuest Communications. |
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