Renesas Technology Licenses ParthusCeva's TeakLite DSP Core for Cellular Handsets
San Jose, Calif - September 15, 2003 - ParthusCeva, Inc.
(Nasdaq: PCVA, LSE: PCV) the leading licensor Digital Signal Processor
(DSP) cores and solutions to the semiconductor industry, today announced
that Renesas Technology Corp., the world's number one supplier of
microcontrollers and the third largest semiconductor company in the world,
has licensed ParthusCeva's TeakLite® DSP Core. Renesas has commenced
shipping GSM / GPRS semiconductor chips powered by ParthusCeva's TeakLite
DSP to customers manufacturing next generation handset products. Renesas
was formed in April 2003 by the integration of Hitachi and Mitsubishi
Electric semiconductor operations.
TeakLite DSP core is optimized for modem devices requiring advanced
functionality, and audio processing combined with low-power consumption.
The core enables the development of low power handset modems and is an
excellent solution for the modem functionality, low-power speech and audio
processing required by mobile and communication devices.
"With next generation applications expanding all the time,
ParthusCeva's TeakLite offers a superb low-power and high-performance DSP
core platform for chipsets that will continue to meet growing market
requirements in the future," commented Mr.Shinji Suda, Department manager,
SOC department of Renesas Technology. "GSM / GPRS chipset development was
completed on time and in budget and is a testament to our teams abilities
to leverage TeakLite's core to build on for the future."
"With Renesas, the third largest semiconductor in the world, licensing
our TeakLite DSP core is further endorsement of our position as the number
one licensed DSP architecture in the industry," said Chet Silvestri, CEO
of ParthusCeva. "Powered by our TeakLite DSP core, Renesas has produced a
wireless solution that leads the industry in performance,
power-consumption and feature set and has already been adopted by leading
European manufacturers of handsets."
About TeakLite
TeakLite is a 16-bit fixed-point general-purpose licensable DSP core.
Designed for low power and high-performance applications such as cellular
handsets, MP3 players, disk drive controllers, cordless, VoIP terminals
and various embedded control applications. TeakLite, a fully synthesizable
soft core, is a process independent core that is easily portable to any
ASIC library.
TeakLite is a member of ParthusCeva's SmartCores™ family. These
low-power, fixed-point licensable DSP cores offer a range of performance,
price and power consumption balances, addressing a wide range of
applications, from low-end, high-volume applications, such as digital
answering machines, hard disk controllers, low speed modems and Voice over
IP terminals, to high performance applications such as third generation
(3G) cellular communications, broadband modems, consumer multimedia and
Voice over IP gateways. A comprehensive portfolio of software and hardware
development tools supports the SmartCores family. In addition, a large
network of third party companies offers applications, tools and design
services solutions.
SmartCores licensees benefit from the advanced architecture features,
such as:
Fully synthesizable soft core that can be ported to any
process or foundry
Code
compatible allowing re-use of legacy code and significantly shorter time
to market
Low power
consumption -- High code density - to reduce chip cost
Cores offered at various performance levels - beginning with single-MAC
(OakDSPCore® and TeakLite®) architecture to Dual-MAC (Teak®), Dual-MAC
with Instruction Level Parallelism (PalmDSPCore®) and the scalable,
multiple MAC and extendible architecture of CedarDSPCore.
About Renesas Technology Corp.
Renesas Technology Corp. designs and manufactures highly integrated
semiconductor system solutions for mobile, networking, automotive,
industrial and digital home electronics markets. Established on April 1,
2003 as a joint venture between Hitachi, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric
Corporation and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Renesas Technology is one
of the largest semiconductor companies in the world and world leading
microcontroller supplier globally. Besides microcontrollers, Renesas
Technology offers system-on-chip devices, Smart Card ICs, mixed-signal
products, flash memories, SRAMs and more. http://www.renesas.com/
About ParthusCeva, Inc.
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