Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 19 April 2002
TI takes Telinnovation from Ditech
Texas Instruments has acquired Ditech's Telinnovation echo-cancellation software unit for a purchase price of $26.8 million
As a result of the acquisition, TI will provide customers with complete hardware and software carrier-class platforms that combine its voice-optimised DSPs and Telogy Software products with the industry's most widely used echo-cancellation technology. As part of the agreement, Ditech secures a license to implement the Telinnovation software on its echo cancellation systems, including enhancements made by TI to the echo cancellation algorithms.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 April 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The agreement also calls for joint marketing and sales efforts.
'TI is committed to providing our broadband voice-over packet, or VoP, customers with the silicon and software they need to win in this fast-growing market', said Bill Simmelink, general manager of TI's VoP Business Unit.
'By combining our silicon and software platforms with Ditech's echo-cancellation software and expertise, we will be able to provide our customers with complete, high-performance carrier-class VoP solutions'.
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'This transaction and license agreement with TI reflects a strategic decision by Ditech to bolster and focus all of our echo-cancellation resources to win in the echo cancellation systems business, where historically Ditech has generated the vast majority of its revenues and profits', said Tim Montgomery, Ditech's president, and CEO.
'With this transaction and licensing agreement with TI, we maintain the echo-cancellation software component of our product advantage and increase the funds available to develop new systems products'.
Ditech's high-capacity echo-canceller software is recognised as the industry benchmark for DSP-based voice enhancement and echo cancellation.
It is regularly specified as a required component of new equipment purchased by major telecommunications carriers transitioning to wireless and packet-switched architectures.
Echo-cancellation software algorithms are embedded in programmable DSPs to eliminate the echo effect caused by signal reflections of the speaker's voice as it crosses a variety of voice transmission systems.
Dr Charles Davis, Ditech's chief technology officer and one of the world's foremost experts in the field, will join TI and continue to lead the echo-cancellation software team.
Prior to joining Ditech, Dr Davis led Telinnovation Service Corporation, which Ditech acquired in February 2000.
The Telinnovation team began providing echo-cancellation software in 1983 and has years of experience working with various TI DSP platforms.
The acquired unit will become part of the Broadband Communications Group within TI's semiconductor business, reporting to Simmelink.
The echo-cancellation team will remain in Silicon Valley, moving into an existing TI facility in San Jose.
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