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Check It Out: AMATI AND TI TO JOINTLY DEVELOP AND MARKET DMT TECHNOLOGY
Using TI Fixed-Point DSP Components for ADSL Designs
October 16, 1996 -- Amati Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTX) and Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) today announced an agreement to jointly develop Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) core technology based on TI's TMS320 Digital Signal Processors (DSPs).
"This alliance with Amati represents a significant step toward our future involvement with the growing ADSL market," said Terry Riley, director, business development Access business unit within Texas Instruments. Amati believes that its design capabilities, combined with TI DSPs and analog front-end chips, will enable the design of ADSL modems that are more cost effective and more flexible than alternative designs..
"The combination of TI's DSPs and Amati's ADSL expertise are expected to lead to future ADSL modem and access system designs that will be able to offer - through the use of effective software design - more features per modem and even more modems per silicon IC," said James Steenbergen, President and CEO of Amati.
The agreement calls for the combined effort by both companies to develop ADSL solutions. Amati and TI will provide the core ADSL software based on their respective DMT technology. TI will then market the software along with its DSP and analog front-end components for customers implementing ADSL system interfaces. In addition to the key efforts between the two companies in the development of ADSL software, TI will also be a key partner for Amati in its system development. With the growing need for Ethernet and ATM access to be integrated with ADSL, TI's experience in other data communication technologies and protocols should assist Amati to support such requirements.
TI will provide software and integrated circuits for communication interfaces compatible with their DSP components.
Amati will then have use of these core designs for system development and access products.
Amati spokespersons emphasized that the announcement does not indicate any change in the relationship with Motorola.
In fact, Amati will supply its customers with modems and systems using both chipset designs. While no availability dates have been announced, it is estimated that both the Motorola CopperGold chipset and the Amati/TI design will be available in the same time period: in or soon after the first quarter of 1997. |
