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Tokyo, Japan. September 7, 2007 - eSOL today announced the strategic partnership with Ittiam Systems to
provide a single multimedia solution for developers using Texas Instruments'
(TI) digital media processors based on DaVinci™ technology.
Through this partnership, Ittiam will transform its award-winning codec
algorithms to seamlessly work with eSOL's PrKERNELv4 real-time operating
system (RTOS), enabling eSOL to offer its RTOS with Ittiam's video and
audio capabilities in the same package.
Both eSOL and Ittiam are TI Authorized Software Providers (ASPs), which means they offer direct customer support for TI Digital Media Software and have a proven track record in digital media product designs.
The ASP designation means that eSOL and Ittiam will assist any TI customer worldwide in complete software implementation and development of portable media players, IP videophones, IP set-top boxes, video surveillance systems, and much more.
In the last decade, eSOL has licensed its RTOS to a number of top-tier
original design manufacturers (ODMs) and original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs) throughout the world, with a very strong focus on TI's imaging and
audio processors. More recently, eSOL embraced TI's digital video applications,
a new market where more customers are seeking alternative ways to optimize
overall system performance.
"In particular, we have seen overwhelming customer demand for high-performance
codecs on a more compact and robust RTOS, and we know how much value eSOL
and Ittiam can bring together to meet this demand," said Bob Ueyama,
Executive Vice President, Embedded Products Division at eSOL Co., Ltd.
Through this partnership, the planned codec offering includes: H.264 Main Profile (MP) encode, WMV9 MP encode, MPEG-2 encode, MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile encode/decode, DivX decode and MP3 encode.
"I am very excited about this new Ittiam partnership as the addition
of these codecs will add significant value to eSOL's total solution offering,"
said Ueyama. "The Ittiam codecs will help developers balance complexity
and performance efficiency, while providing the necessary flexibility to
optimize and enhance video applications."
"Ittiam and eSOL are very committed to providing a turnkey solution
to TI's DaVinci technology," added Ueyama.
"Combining eSOL's market leading PrKERNELv4 RTOS with Ittiam's market
leading AV codecs on TI DSPs will enable our AV appliance customers to
hit the market in the shortest possible time with optimum Audio-Video and
system performance. Ittiam Systems are very pleased to have secured a strategic
partnership with eSOL, a leading RTOS company, and this partnership adds
the essential and complementary OS layer to Ittiam's portfolio of products.
We are looking forward to a hugely successful partnership for the benefit
of our customers' products and time to market," commented Vikram Bose,
Ittiam Vice President of Sales, Asia and Japan.
About eSOL
Founded in 1975 in Tokyo, Japan, eSOL is a leading embedded software developer with core technologies in real time operating systems. We develop, market and sell proven RTOS suites, along with a rich set of vertical oriented middleware libraries. Our rugged software development tools provide optimal reliability in backing up the highly complicated development process for RTOS-based applications. We know that a reliable RTOS and development tools make a significant difference to the quality and timeliness of our customers' products in a continuously growing and competitive world market. Today, our customers - global OEMs and ODMs ranging from consumer electronics to automotive applications - ship millions of products with technologies pioneered by eSOL.
For more information, please visit eSOL web site.
About Ittiam
Ittiam Systems Private Limited, headquartered in Bangalore, is a technology product company singularly focused on digital signal processing systems in media and communication. The company operates through its network of offices and representatives around the world. Ittiam's customers include Fortune 100 companies and are distributed across U.S., Europe, Japan and Asia. In 2004, 2005 and 2006 the company was rated as the 'World's Most Preferred DSP IP Supplier' in a survey conducted by Forward Concepts Incorporated. In 2005 Ittiam had been selected by Red Herring into the top 100 private companies in Asia. In February 2007, Ittiam received the NASSCOM IT Innovation Award, one of the seven most innovative companies in India to get this recognition. For more details, visit www.ittiam.com .
* PrKERNELv4 is registered trademarks of eSOL Co., Ltd.
* DaVinci is a trademark of Texas Instruments.
* All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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