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News Release from: Tensilica | Subject: AAC-LC and aacPlus decoders
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 March 2008
Decoder implementations provide surround
sound
aacPlus V1 is a superset of AAC that adds spectral band replication (SBR), a bandwidth extension technique that enables audio codecs to deliver the same quality at half the bit rate.
Tensilica's MPEG-4 AAC-LC, aacPlus V1 and V2 multichannel decoder implementations provide up to 7.1-channel surround sound for home entertainment devices They are available for the Tensilica HiFi 2 Audio Engine, the most popular audio architecture for system-on-chip (SoC) design
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We've offered our customers stereo AAC-LC and aacPlus decoders for several years with great success in the handheld and portable device markets and we're now seeing strong demand for multichannel versions in home entertainment multimedia products", said Larry Przywara, Tensilica's Marketing Director for Mobile/Multimedia Products.
"In addition, we have further improved the memory requirements of the stereo decoders with reductions of up to 62% for data RAM and 25% for code size".
"Multichannel AAC-LC and aacPlus is now being deployed in the broadcast and consumer segments".
"We are delighted to be cooperating with Tensilica to hasten this process with certified implementations on their HiFi 2 Audio Engine", said Martin Dietz, Vice President, Dolby Laboratories.
"This will enable companies to accelerate the design of the next-generation audio chips that include this audio standard as well as other system features, reducing cost and power in many applications".
aacPlus v1 is a superset of AAC that adds spectral band replication (SBR), a bandwidth extension technique that enables audio codecs to deliver the same quality at half the bit rate.
aacPlus V2 adds parametric stereo (PS), which significantly increases the codec efficiency a second time for low bit-rate stereo signals.
aacPlus V2 is specified as the high-quality audio codec in the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project).
These new decoders are just three of many Dolby products supported by Tensilica's HiFi 2 Audio Engine.
Tensilica also offers Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 and 7.1-channel decoders, Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder 5.1, Dolby Digital Compatible Output 5.1 and AAC-LC, aacPlus V1 and V2 stereo decoders and encoders.
The Tensilica HiFi2 Audio Engine is available to users of Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processors and is also available in an off the shelf audio DSP IP core - the Diamond Standard 330HiFi processor.
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