He added: "This advanced level of software optimization and resulting power reduction is a result of our acquisition of Alarity Corporation: the multimedia company with a reputation for leading edge codec software, firmware, and advanced multimedia technologies. This new MP3 decoder for the ARC Sound Subsystem is an example of their world class expertise."
In a recently published research report, Informa Plc estimated that the number of handsets sold with music capabilities would increase 69 percent from 154 million in 2006 to 260 million in 2007. The London-based firm predicted that by 2012, the music phone segment would grow to more than one billion new unit sales.
"Developing an MP3 decoder or any other multimedia codec for ARC CPU cores and subsystems is greatly enhanced by inherent configurability," said Felix Litvinsky, vice president of business development at ARC and former CEO of Alarity. "Before ARC invented the configurable processor architecture, software developers were confined by a fixed instruction set. Now, programmers can profile code to identify execution bottlenecks and add an instruction that vastly accelerates code performance thus freeing them to create optimized software on optimized hardware."
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Written by: James Delahunty @ 24 Nov 2007 15:43
