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News Release from: MIPS Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 December 2003
Digital consumer devices fill Santa's
sack
MIPS-based digital consumer devices look set to play a big role worldwide during the 2003 holiday season.
MIPS-based digital consumer devices look set to play a big role worldwide during the 2003 holiday season The availability of these products are enabled by a growing list of MIPS Technologies' licensees that are using the high-performance MIPS architecture to develop unique products, such as digital televisions, digital set-top boxes and mobile devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Over the years, innovative and highly competitive processors from OEM and semiconductor partners have driven the MIPS architecture into a diverse range of embedded applications, such as ultra-low power mobile applications like smart cards, PDAs and digital cameras.
Mobile devices likely to be found in Santa's sack include: AMX's MVP 7500 and 8400 wireless touch screen panels; Casio's Cassiopeia BE-300 pocket manager; Macsense's HomePod wireless audio player; Roku's HD1000 digital media player; Sony's AIBO entertainment robot; STi's VR3 Linux PDA; and VideoChip's digital wallet.
MIPS-based processors are being used to develop SoCs for set-top boxes, integrated digital televisions, DVD recordable devices and other entertainment products that meet a wide range of price points and performance demands in markets around the world.
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64bit soft core has integral floating-point unit
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Boosted performance for 32bit soft core
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Digital televisions include: Sony's KDP-51WS550 high definition TV; Sony's KDP-57WS550 high definition TV; Sony's KDP-65WS550 high definition TV; Sony's VEGA KDE-P42HZ1 plasma TV; and Sony's VEGA KDE-P50HZ1 plasma TV.
Digital set-top boxes include: Echostar's DISH 322 satellite set-top box; Echostar's DISH DVR 522 satellite set-top box; Galaxis'LinuxTV model; Hughes Network Systems' HDVR2 DirecTV DVR with TiVo; Motorola's DCT 2500, DCT 2600 and DCT-5100 series; Pace's 500 series, used by Time Warner Cable; Pioneer's Voyager 3000 cable set-top box; RCA's RW2100 Internet receiver; Scientific Atlanta's 3250HD and 4200HD models; Sony's CoCoon PVR; and TiVo's Series 2.
Digital entertainment systems include: Prismiq's Entertainment Media Gateway; and Sony's PlayStation 2.
Recent MIPS-based innovations in the high-growth broadband-access market include products that use 802.11 technologies, such as: Ambit Microsystems' stand-alone media terminal adapter; iCable System's ICS-G101 Internet terminal adapter; iPricot's IPR-S500 and Sc wireless broadband access devices; Linksys' WAP51AB wireless access point; Atheros' wireless adapter for the Xbox; Motorola's Surfboard SB4200 cable modem; Netgear's FWAG114 wireless VPN firewall; Sumitomo Electric's MegaBit Gear TE46xxC CPE series ADSL modem; and Westell's WireSpeed ADSL modem 2000 and Dual Connect Bridge 2110 ADSL modem.
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