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To: Clarksterh who wrote (7721)	1/29/1998 12:54:00 PM
From: Jim Lurgio	Respond to of 152472

Thank you Clark.

To: Clarksterh who wrote (7721)	1/29/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 152472

Clark, Good start. Specifically at QCOM, ASICS was a catchall for all the "chips" that went into things. We choose a path in 1987 to make our own custom chips for products where it made sense. these are application specific, but with an eye to market in general. This proess has evolved inside of QCOM to include our own DSP core processor, our own licensed (intel) CPU cores, and our application specific cores which perform digital signal processing, but the circuits have been very simplified to remove all unneeded extra circuity and power. these chips include digital modulation, demodulation, viterbi decoding, digital frequency synthesizers, vocoder chips, and of course the CDMA digital ASICS of MSM series and CSM series. MSM is Mobile Station Modem, or the complete digital phone on a single chip and CSM is cell site modem, or a complete single call channel on a single chip. The analog functions fall under the ASICS heading only in that this is the NAME of the division. These are true analog chips which incorporate modulation, demodulation, clocks, oscillators, Linear Amplifiers, etc. We also have custom programmed DSP chips like our origianl offering of the 13k vocoder, which was a preprogrammed DSP1617 core.