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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Arc International PLC\n06 March 2007\n\n\n\nMedia Contact:\nLee Garvin Flanagin\nARC International\n+1 408 437 3433\[email protected]\n\n\n\n\n\n ARC(R) Configurable Technology at the Heart of Three Generations of\n IPWireless 3G Broadband Solutions\n\n\n\nELSTREE, England, March 6, 2007 - ARC International (LSE: ARK), the world leader\nin configurable subsystems and CPU/DSP processors, today announced that\nIPWireless - an ARC(R) customer since 2001 - has integrated ARC's configurable\nprocessors into three generations of wireless broadband products. These\nARC-BasedTM chips from IPWireless now are shipping to consumers globally in\ndevices such as T-Mobile's dual band TD-CDMA plus quad band EDGE product that\nfits into most laptop computer PCMCIA slots. This announcement complements the\nnew licensing agreements made public today by ARC International with\nsemiconductor companies and design team throughout Europe. See companion press\nrelease from ARC International dated March 6, 2007 for more information.\n\n\n\nIPWireless's most recent ARC-Based 3G wireless broadband TD-CDMA device\n(mentioned above) incorporates an ARC 725D configurable processor which\nIPWireless adopted because of its small die size and best-in-class performance.\nThe ARC 725D core enabled IPWireless's system-on-chip (SoC) design team to\nreplace the function of two cores with one, saving valuable chip real estate and\nlowering overall product development cost.\n\n\n\n\"ARC's configurable processors have enabled us to create a string of innovative\nsolutions for mobile internet access,\" said Roger Nichol, vice president of\ntechnology at IPWireless. \"Configurability enables our chip engineers to\nmaximize the efficiency of the ASIC by adding custom instructions, and to reduce\ngate count and power consumption by removing unwanted functionality.\"\n\n\n\nIPWireless's ARC-BasedTM Chip Development Strategy\n\nFor IPWireless's first family of wireless products, their challenge was to\nintegrate a baseband processor with a microprocessor to create a single chip\nsolution. After evaluating the options available from ARM, MIPS and ARC, an ARC\ncore was selected because its configurable architecture enabled IPWireless's SoC\ndesign team to reduce the amount of code required by optimizing baseband\nprocessing routines, thus making the SoC smaller and more...