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News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: ZSP digital audio platform
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 January 2003
Digital audio platform
has all standards covered
Addressing the increasing demand for advanced audio requirements in consumer electronic applications, LSI Logic's ZSP digital audio platform is based on the proven open-architecture ZSP400 DSP core
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Addressing the increasing demand for advanced audio requirements in consumer electronic applications, LSI Logic's ZSP digital audio platform is based on the proven open-architecture ZSP400 digital signal processor core. New consumer electronic applications including Internet audio distribution and digital TV are fuelling the rapidly evolving audio market, driving requirements for support of multiple standards, new audio features and improved sonic audio quality.
The ZSP digital audio platform includes a complete, fully-certified software suite optimised for all digital audio standards required for DTV, DVD and DVD-audio including AC-3, MP3, AAC, MPEG-1, -2 and audio enhancement post processing, providing the most cost-effective, high-performance digital audio solution in the market.
Leading audio/video semiconductor companies have selected the ZSP digital audio platform due to its superior audio performance and efficiency.
Products using the digital audio platform are expected to be available late in 2003.
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The ZSP400 offers system designers 16+32bit datapaths enabling superb audio quality while maintaining very dense memory footprint - the critical requirements in consumer products.
All audio modules are compliant with the ZOpen software framework, enabling streamlined application development by providing a standardized integration environment, multivendor algorithm interoperability and hardware abstraction.
This software framework reduces time-to-market by decreasing integration efforts and leveraging off-the-shelf algorithms from ZSP application solution partners like Espico and Spatializer Audio Laboratories.
"The performance of the ZSP400 combined with the flexibility of the ZOpen software framework has made it very easy to design efficient audio algorithms for consumer applications", said Cliff Parris, Managing Director of Espico.
"ZSP licensees can expect consistent, proven results when integrating the digital audio platform in their set-top box, DVD or digital television designs".
"Spatializer is delighted to enable LSI Logic customers with our new Spatializer enCompass algorithm along with the full range of Spatializer virtual surround sound and audio enhancement suite of products.
The superb quality and compact ZSP400 digital audio subsystem is a ideal match for the Spatializer product lines", said Michael Wood, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Spatializer Audio Laboratories.
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