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News Release from: ANT | Subject: Fresco
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 September 2003
Browser runs on NEC's set top box SoCs
The ANT Fresco browser has been ported to the NEC Electronics EMMArchitecture2 range of SoC devices for digital TV and set top boxes.
The ANT Fresco browser has been ported to the NEC Electronics EMMArchitecture2 range of SoC devices for digital TV and set top boxes The reference port, completed by DiscVision, an NEC Electronics channel partner, will enable NEC Electronics customers to move quickly from concept to production
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The port will be provided in source code form to NEC Electronics customers who license the ANT Fresco browser.
"We were most impressed with the structure, design and documentation of the ANT Fresco browser", said Dr Reinhard Luling, CEO of DiscVision.
"We were able to get an initial port working very quickly leaving plenty of time to optimise the port's performance".
DiscVision will use the ANT browser as part of the suite of PVR solutions that it offers to licence partners in the CE industry.
"There is an increasing need for compact HTML rendering technology to provide the sophisticated user interfaces that customers of modern consumer electronic equipment demand.
The performance, stability and compact code size of the ANT Fresco browser made it the obvious choice for a reference browser on our silicon", said Nick Russell, Marketing Manager for Digital AV Products at NEC Electronics.
"We were most impressed by the depth and versatility of NEC's EMMArchitecture2 range said Stephen Reeder, Director of Sales and Marketing at ANT.
"We are jointly engaged in a number of exciting opportunities with customers who are seeking to exploit the EMMA2's price and performance in their product deployments".
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