Virage Logic Bolsters Suite of Audio Codecs

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[May 31, 2010]

Virage Logic Bolsters Suite of Audio Codecs

May 31, 2010 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Virage Logic Corp., a semiconductor industry IP partner, announced an expanded suite of certified, optimized audio codecs that provide users with a solution for a range of System-on-Chip (SoC) audio applications.

The company said the codecs are available for the AS 211SFX with dual MAC (Multiplier/Accumulator), the industry's smallest and lowest power audio digital signal processor (DSP), and have been fully certified and thoroughly tested. Virage Logic's Sound-to-Silicon audio solution is a complete hardware and software offering that includes the AS 211SFX, a codec portfolio, the Media Streaming Framework, and the Sonic Focus audio post processing software. The audio codecs are delivered as source code and are developed and supported by Virage Logic's team of audio specialists.

"Already the industry's second most widely used processor architecture, Virage Logic is underscoring its investment in the ARC processor brand with an expanded suite of certified, fully optimized audio codecs," said Dr. Yankin Tanurhan, vice president and general manager of Virage Logic's Processor, SoC Infrastructure and NVM Solutions business units. "With this expanded suite of audio codecs, Virage Logic is boosting the Sound-to-Silicon product portfolio for portable and home audio markets to enhance the capabilities we can provide our customers." Virage Logic noted its expanded suite of audio codecs includes: - ARC aacPlus v1, v2 Decoder - ARC AMR NB Encoder and Decoder - ARC AMR WB Decoder - ARC AMR WB Encoder - ARC AMR WB+ Decoder - ARC Dolby Digital (AC-3) Decoder - ARC Dolby Digital (AC-3) Encoder - ARC Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3) Decoder - ARC FLAC Decoder - ARC G.726 Encoder and Decoder - ARC LC SBC Encoder and Decoder - ARC Monkey's Audio Decoder - ARC MP3 LP Decoder - ARC MPEG-4 AAC-LC Decoder - ARC MPEG-4 AAC-LC Encoder - ARC Vorbis Decoder - ARC Windows Media Audio 9/10 Pro Decoder According to a release, each codec is optimized for small code and data size, low power, low memory bandwidth operation and is tolerant to high memory access latencies. The company noted that the codecs adhere to the standards, are error resilient, never lock up, and encode and decode audio.

Virage Logic is a provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits.

More Information: http://www.viragelogic.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to newsdesk@closeupmedia.com))

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