austriamicrosystems to provide AS3525 processor to HHTech
(Technology News, 07 Mar 2007 )
austriamicrosystems, a designer and manufacturer of analog integrated circuits, and HHTech Co Ltd, in embedded Linux technology provider in mainland China, have announced that HHTech will provide its customers with a complete MP4/PMP production-ready solution based on austriamicrosystems' AS3525.
austriamicrosystems' AS3525 is an ultra integration IC. The internal 250mhz ARM9 processor is a complete power management unit, with a CODEC and other necessary components for audio front and back-end processing analog circuits and systems. Using this IC, all the functions are contained on a single chip, which helps customers reduce the complexity and cost of hardware production.
The AS3525 is a 32-bit ARM9 core-based ultra-integrated single-chip IC, ideal for all portable entertainment players in the OEM market. austriamicrosystems will leverage HHTech's design capabilities on embedded solutions to provide customers with complete production-ready designs. The AS3525 uses an embedded Linux operating system with enriched software functions. It supports XVID, RM/RMVB, FLV and 3GP video, MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, FLAC and WAV audio, as well as JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and dynamic GIF photos. It also delivers video decoding performance at QVGA resolution at 25 frames per second (fps). It supports previewing, zooming in and out and paralleling pictures. It enables playback Flash in SWF and supports GB/GBC, NES and SNES game simulators.
Roberto Simmarano, senior director marketing BU Communications at austriamicrosystems, said, "We are excited about the partnership with HHTech. The engineering team from HHTech was able to quickly adapt Linux OS and entertainment applications to the austriamicrosystems' mobile entertainment platform to produce a set of production-ready solutions for virtually any portable consumer product."