Lucent, Motorola team in DSP
SAN FRANCISCO--Motorola Inc. and Lucent
Technologies Inc. today announced a strategic
partnership in digital signal processing, aimed at
jointly developing next-generation DSP technology
and competing with market leader Texas
Instruments Inc.
As part of the alliance, Motorola and Lucent said
they were forming a joint venture, called
Star*Core, which will create DSP technologies
and new processor core architectures. The new
DSP platforms will be used separately by the two
partners to create a range of compatible products
for their own customers, said Lucent and Motorola
executives, who announced the partnership during
a press conference here. The Star*Core venture
will be based in Atlanta and equally owned by the
two companies.
In addition to developing new DSP cores, the two
companies said they have agreed to cross license
each other's existing digital signal processing cores
for use in products. Lucent's Microelectronics
Group has agreed to license Motorola's 32-bit
RISC M-Core. Motorola will license Lucent's
16000 DSP core, while Lucent will license
Motorola's 56800 DSP core.
Heading up Star*Core as executive director will be
James Boddie, a Bell Labs Fellow and director of
DSP technology development at Lucent. Boddie
was a member of the Bell Labs team that designed
the world's first programmable single-chip DSP in
1979, according to Lucent. Executives from
Motorola will be appointed to the positions of
architecture director and design director.
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