ISSI's Flash Card Reader Controller Selected by Sigma Design for Portable Media Player Reference Design
March 08 2006 - 6:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Integrated
Silicon Solution Inc. (NASDAQ:ISSI), today announced that Sigma
Designs Inc. (NASDAQ:SIGM), a leader in digital media processing
for consumer electronics, has selected ISSI's storage media hub
Flash card reader device for their portable media player (PMP)
reference design. This new portable media player adds Flash card
reader functionality to the PMP and allows pictures, movies, or
music to be played from different Flash cards, in addition to the
built-in hard disk drive. ISSI's storage media hub Flash card
reader controller, the IC1100B, complies with the USB1.1 Full Speed
specification and supports standard PC card ATA and true IDE Host /
ATAPI device interfaces. Flash media cards in all formats including
SmartMedia, Security Digital, Multimedia Card, CompactFlash, Memory
Stick, Micro Drive and IDE hard disk drives are all supported by
this device. Integrated with a Turbo 52 CPU core, 32Kbyte internal
Flash, 4K SRAM, and ICSI in-house parallel port master/slave
interface, the IC1100B provides the a flexible solution for adding
Flash card reader functionality to any IDE or USB hosts. "ISSI's
IC1100B controller adds extra features to our PMP reference design.
The Flash card reader gives end users the capability of using any
of their Flash cards and allows the contents on the Flash cards to
be viewed or played on the PMP without using a computer," said Ken
Lowe, VP of strategic marketing, Sigma Designs, Inc. "We're excited
to be part of another Sigma Designs reference design. The
flexibility and robustness of our card reader controller design is
ideal for any streaming media applications and Sigma Designs' PMP
reference design is a very good example of these applications,"
said David Chow, vice president of product marketing for ISSI.
"These same benefits also apply to other applications including DVD
players, multi-function printers, HDTVs, projection TVs, projectors
and other streaming media consumer applications." For pricing and
product information on ISSI Flash card controllers, please contact
Kenny Chu, ASSP product marketing and applications manager, at
858-822-9499. About Sigma Designs Sigma Designs specializes in
silicon-based media processors for IPTV set-top boxes, digital
media receivers, high definition DVD players, HDTV, and portable
media players. The company's award-winning REALmagic(R) Video
Streaming Technology is used in a variety of consumer applications
providing highly integrated solutions for high-quality decoding of
H.264, WMV9, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1. Headquartered in Milpitas,
Calif., the company also has sales offices in China, Europe, Hong
Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For more information, please visit
the company's web site at http://www.sigmadesigns.com/. About ISSI
ISSI is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets
high performance integrated circuits for the following key markets:
(i) digital consumer electronics, (ii) networking, (iii) mobile
communications and (iv) automotive electronics. The Company's
primary products are high speed and low power SRAM and low and
medium density DRAM. The Company also designs and markets EEPROM,
wireless chipsets, SmartCards and is developing selected non-memory
products focused on its key markets. ISSI is headquartered in
Silicon Valley with worldwide offices in China, Europe, Hong Kong,
India, Korea and Taiwan. Visit our web site at
http://www.issi.com/. DATASOURCE: Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc.
CONTACT: Larry Hayes of Hayes Marketing, +1-408-921-5806, or , for
ISSI; or Tom Doczy of ISSI, +1-408-969-4620, or Web site:
http://www.sigmadesigns.com/ http://www.issi.com/
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