Alliance aims for high-end multimedia handsets

Renesas Technology has announced a co-operation agreement with Nokia, bringing the benefits of S60 on Symbian OS to Renesas' SH Mobile application processor supporting S60 3rd Edition software.

Renesas Technology has announced a co-operation agreement with Nokia, bringing the benefits of S60 on Symbian OS to Renesas' SH Mobile application processor supporting S60 3rd Edition software.

A significant upgrade, the move is designed to provide advanced multimedia features for high-end smartphones.

Aimed at mobile phone manufacturers, the Renesas processor running S60 addresses the need to reduce design time and cost of a complicated multimedia software framework in a mobile phone application.

The processor meets growing performance requirements for multimedia acceleration such as audio, video and graphics.

It also meets the need to reduce power consumption.

Design time and cost are reduced as a result of the processor's support for S60 3rd Edition software.

With its high performance multimedia it offers industry leading video performance, and its low power consumption brings increased operation time.

Lower total cost of ownership is achieved due to integrated software including S60 and multimedia codecs.

S60 3rd Edition software focuses on enhanced multimedia and enterprise functionality, sustainable application business support, state-of-the-art customisation enablers and improved platform architecture.

S60 3rd Edition also includes the features and functions of the previous editions, including multiradio, extensive application suite, scalable UI and high-resolution support.

Renesas has largely used its own IP for hardware video acceleration and software multimedia codecs.

The company's SH-X core is used for multimedia DSP functionality and was developed by the company.

Additionally many of the multimedia HW accelerators and SW codecs were developed by Renesas.

The SH Mobile application processor provides a very high performance multimedia solution for smartphones enabling a short time to market with a low R and D investment.

"The S60 3rd Edition software will enable handset manufacturers to reduce their time to market for new smartphones".

"With Renesas expertise and leadership in wireless multimedia, we are developing SH-Mobile to be the market-leading single chip platform for 3G smartphones".

"We are very pleased to be able to integrate these two excellent platforms together to provide a complete smartphone solution for the benefit of our customers", said Ikuya Kawasaki, Deputy General Manager of System Solution Business Unit 2 at Renesas Technology Corp.

"Collaboration with leading industry players will benefit licensees with advanced functionalities and high performance when developing smartphones based on S60 software".

"We are pleased to welcome Renesas to the S60 Product Creation Community", says Matti Vanska, Vice President, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia.

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