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2005年01月17日

Development and trial manufacturing of an Ogg Vorbis-compatible sound decoder LSI equipped with a delta-sigma DAC.

It realizes low-clock running and on-chip memory processing with a view toward a low-cost Ogg Vorbis chip

FineArch Inc. - headquartered in Koto Ward, Tokyo; President Ken Ota - has developed and manufactured on a trial basis the LSI ‘FS-500 (FA3121037) Sound Decoder with a low running clock frequency and on-chip memory using Ogg Vorbis, a next-generation sound compression format that is license-royalty free, with “high-fidelity and a high compression rate.”

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2003年07月15日

System IP to decode New digital music format Ogg Vorbis is ready for a market from FineArch, Inc.

Achieved competitive 12MHz operation, targeting portable music player

FineArch, Inc., Tokyo Japan based semiconductor LSI design company, developed the system IP to decode the next generation digital music compression format, Ogg Vorbis(http://www. vorbis.com). FineArch successfully completed the Ogg vorbis sytstem IP to run at 12 Mhz. This is about 1/6 of the clock speed required to decode Ogg Vorbis with a single CPU system. This ultra low power IP fits well with the today’s portable music player market where battery life is critical factor.

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