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MIPS Technologies Introduces the MIPS(TM) Consumer Audio Platform, The Industry's Most Comprehensive Audio Solution

Customers Now Integrating Optimized Audio Codecs Developed With Dolby, Fraunhofer, Microsoft, Sonic Solutions and SRS Labs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Whether in mobile MP3 players, DVD-Recordable devices or plasma TVs, servicing the expanding market for consumer audio playback devices just got easier thanks to MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS).

Working with leaders in the consumer electronics software industry -- such as Dolby Laboratories, Fraunhofer, Microsoft, Sonic Solutions and SRS Labs -- MIPS Technologies today introduced the MIPS(TM) Consumer Audio Platform, a common foundation that enables customers to implement the world's most popular audio codecs (coders and decoders) on MIPS-Based(TM) system-on-chips (SOCs) targeting high-growth embedded markets.

Industry's Most Comprehensive Audio Solution

In use by a range of silicon companies, the MIPS Consumer Audio Platform enhances the formidable MIPS(R) ecosystem, which is comprised of over one hundred million dollars of software, tools and peripheral IP already ported to the industry-standard MIPS architecture. Now licensees can implement the audio algorithms using a dedicated MIPS-Based co-processor or leverage the
inherent processor headroom in many consumer applications to run audio codecs in addition to functions typically handled by "host" processors. These approaches will cut overall system costs, reduce or eliminate royalty payments to DSP vendors and speed MIPS-Based designs to market by stripping months from
the SOC development cycle.

All audio algorithms have been optimized for the MIPS32(R) instruction set and offer must-have audio technology including Dolby(R) Digital, MPEG audio, Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA), and SRS TruSurround XT(R) technology from SRS Labs.

"The MIPS Consumer Audio Platform is another way we are giving customers the flexibility to optimize system configurations using a single industry-standard processor architecture," said Russ Bell, vice president of marketing at MIPS Technologies.

"Using our optimized platform, licensees can develop and maintain a single audio subsystem to target multiple consumer
products, ranging from mobile audio players to high-end consumer devices."

The following codecs are ready for licensing from Fraunhofer, Microsoft, MIPS Technologies or Sonic Solutions. Additional codecs are being developed and will be announced as they become available.


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