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August 29th, 2005
Victory Labs and Sonarics Labs to Demonstrate DAB Solution at IFA 2005
Victory Labs, a wireless audio company and Sonarics Labs, a company that offers digital audio
broadcasting solutions for DSP based designs will demonstrate their joint digital audio broadcasting (DAB) solution at one
of the largest consumer trade shows of the year, IFA 2005 in Berlin, Germany. The DAB radio receiver from Victory Concept
Industries features DAB and FM reception and includes both MP3 playback, real time recording along with a live rewind feature.
Because the design is based on software decoder technology, a low-cost solution has been obtained. According to Jenny Wong,
CEO of Victory Concept, "The DAB market is expected to see strong growth in 2005 as we continue to push the price points down
to affordable levels while providing the consumer with an exceptional value. Our partnership with Sonarics has allowed us
to deliver high performance DAB radio receivers for the retail market at remarkably affordable costs."
Fundamental to the new DAB receiver is Sonaric’s ClearSignal
technology. ClearSignal software decoder technology offers a number of features to build low-cost, versatile DAB receivers.
Specifically ClearSignal includes a Eureka 147 DAB based decoder, real-time recording of DAB programs to SD card, sound processing
engine for bass, treble equalizer and effects, a digital decoder for analog FM and audio decoders for MPEG2, MP3, WMA and
WVA audio and music standards. The software decoders also have graphic and video options. These include JPEG, photo album
and DAB MOT slide show decoders, graphic and database engines. Finally there are a number of general features for peripheral
controllers such as tuners, and removable storage.
The two companies will demonstrate the new DAB receiver at Hall
4.1 Booth 659 at IFA 2005 between September 2 and September 7, 2005. IFA 2005 is expected to have an attendance of over
300,000 with over 1,000 exhibitors.
August 16th, 2005
The ZigBee Alliance, a group of companies that promote the ZigBee
standard, announced the agenda for its upcoming ZigBee Developers Conference to be held in conjunction with CABA’s Connected@Home2005 in
Las Vegas from October 3 to October 5, 2005.
Companies that will lead discussions at the conference include Assa
Abloy Identification Technology Group, Cirronet, Daintree Networks, Ember; Figure 8 Wireless/Chipcon, Freescale Semiconductor,
Inc., Integration Associates, San Juan Software; TUV Rheinland Group, and ZMD.
ZigBee Compliant Platform Workshops, staffed with technical representatives
from the companies offering ZigBee compliant platforms, will give attendees a constructive opportunity to cap off their
trip to Las Vegas. The workshops have been designed to give developers hands-on training with ZigBee compliant platforms from
Ember, Figure8 Wireless/Chipcon, Figure8 Wireless/Freescale Semiconductor and Integration Associates/OKI.
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