CML Microcircuits Regulatory News (CML)

14 Nov 2006 13:38

CML Microcircuits (www.cmlmicro.com) a leading innovator andprovider of low-power semiconductors for Global Wireless and Wirelinecommunication markets, today announced a strategic agreement withSPIRIT DSP (www.spiritdsp.com), a technology innovator and the world'sleading provider of embedded voice, audio and communication softwareproducts. £ Under the terms of the agreement, CML will provide integratedcircuits (IC's) to the worldwide communication markets based uponSPIRIT's proprietary Low Bit-Rate vocoder technology. The agreementcombines CML's 38-year history of developing mixed-signalsemiconductors for professional and leisure wireless applications withSPIRIT's 10 years of experience in embedded voice products. Initialsemiconductor products will be aimed at applications within the globalTwo-Way Radio market. £ "This agreement with SPIRIT achieves our objective of providingcommunication product designers with a single, highly integrated ICfor their low bit-rate voice processing requirements," said MalcolmLyman, Marketing Manager CML Microcircuits (UK) Ltd. "Historicallywithin our target markets, equipment designers have had very littlechoice in terms of standard IC products for high-quality, low bit-ratevocoding applications and have had to pay high initial licence feesand ongoing royalties to use available technology. Our agreement withSPIRIT and the resulting IC products will bring highly integrated,cost-effective IC's to the market that are both licence androyalty-free". £ "We are proud to partner with CML to integrate our leading edgevocoder technology within CML's mixed-signal IC's. SPIRIT's positionas the world's leading provider of voice-processing technology andCML's extensive experience in the global Two-Way Radio markets providea very powerful solution for equipment designers across the world",said Slava Borilin, VP Products, SPIRIT DSP." £ CML is now providing limited sampling, with full productionexpected at the end of Q1 2007. £ About CML £ CML Microcircuits is a member of the CML Microsystems Plc group(LSE: CML.L), specialising in the design, development and marketing ofextremely low-power semiconductor products for Global Wireless andWireline communications applications. Founded in 1968, the company isheadquartered near London, UK with strategic locations in the USA,Singapore and China. £ About SPIRIT DSP £ SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, has beenin the international software licensing business since 1992. Abootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 14 years. For thelast 10 years SPIRIT's focus has been communication, speech and VoIPsoftware products. Today SPIRIT counts among its clients Adobe, Agere,ARM, Atmel, Compal, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Kyocera, LG,Marconi, MediaRing, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, NEC, NortelNetworks, Oracle, Paltalk, Panasonic, Philips Semiconductor, Polycom,Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and TrinityConvergence, among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors.Under these brand names SPIRIT communication software is used in over80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels.SPIRIT DSP is a member of major voice-related developer communities,including Intel(R) Developer Network, ARM(R) Connected Community,Philips Nexperia Partnership, TI Third Party Network, TI OMAPDeveloper Network for Wireless handsets and PDAs. SeeStorm is SPIRITaffiliate for synthetic video conferencing. Copyright Business Wire 2006