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News Release from: ARM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 April 2005
Celestial takes cores for TV SoC
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Celestial Semiconductor has licensed a full range of ARM technologies for its system-on-chip solutions for televisions.
Celestial Semiconductor has licensed a full range of ARM technologies for its system-on-chip solutions for televisions: the ARM926EJ-STM processor, the Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM9) on-chip debug peripheral and the ARM PrimeCell Smart Card Interface (PL131) Combined, these technologies will enable Celestial to easily and cost-efficiently develop next-generation ARM powered codec chipsets and media processors for the high growth home applications such as HDTV, DTV and STB, including the support of the Audio Video Coding Standard Working Group of China (AVS) standard
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"As ARM is the most widely-used architecture, the ARM926EJ-S processor - with its strong Java performance and multimedia signal processing - is ideal for our codec chipset and media processor design", said Daniel Fu, founder and CTO of Celestial.
"This agreement will help us significantly reduce our time to market in delivery of standard-compliant SoCs for applications such as HDTV, DTV and STB, enabling us to meet the strong consumer demand for these applications".
"Meeting the strong demand for SoC standards to serve the HDTV, DTV and STB markets is a tremendous challenge for consumer electronics designers", said Dr Jun Tan, President of ARM China.
"Through the ARM Foundry Programme, we are able to provide Celestial with industry-leading technology and an unmatched level of resources through our ARM connected community, enabling the rapid development of AV codec chipsets to deliver a much richer television experience for consumers".
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