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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

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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