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News Release from: LSI Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 September 2004
DSP cores set for Broadcom boxes
Broadcom Corp has licensed the ZSP500 digital signal processor core to service multiple encoding and decoding audio applications in the set-top box market.
Broadcom Corp, a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions enabling broadband communications, has licensed the ZSP500 digital signal processor (DSP) core to service multiple encoding and decoding audio applications in the set-top box market As an early adopter of the LSI Logic ZSP processing solutions, Broadcom continues to reinforce its commitment to the ZSP roadmap, leveraging the popular, open, industry-standard DSP cores
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Since adopting the ZSP architecture, Broadcom has already gone into mass production with several VoIP semiconductor products based on ZSP processing solutions, including seven popular BCM11xx IP phone devices, the BCM3341 broadband VoIP device, the BCM3351 and BCM3352 cable modem VoIP gateway devices and the BCM6352 voice over DSL device.
Making a seamless migration from ZSP400 to ZSP500, Broadcom is now leveraging another well-balanced, cost-effective and high-performance DSP solution to quickly meet market demands.
"For our wide range of set-top product lines, we needed maximum technology re-use and fast time-to-market", said Daniel Marotta, Group Vice President of Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group.
"The ZSP architecture provides us with a high-performance solution with best-in-class code density and software compatibility across the entire core family, which not only reduces our code development time and cost, but scales into many applications".
"It was a natural decision for us to leverage the capabilities of the ZSP500 to quickly address the ever increasing performance and feature-set requirements needed for product differentiation".
"Broadcom's selection of the ZSP500 is another indication that it is fast becoming the preferable licensable DSP for multimedia applications", said Tuan Dao, Vice President and General Manager of the LSI Logic DSP Products Division.
"The performance and small footprint of the ZSP500 solution allow Broadcom to quickly and cost-effectively support new high-end audio compression technologies and standards".
In addition to Broadcom, LSI Logic has recently licensed the ZSP processing solutions to Huawei Technologies, Pulsus UTStarcom, Datang Microelectronics, Avid Electronics Corp, ICC and Socle Technology.
World-class companies such as Conexant, IBM, Skyworks and VIA Telecom are also among publicly announced licensees of the ZSP processing solutions.
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