MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ — Audience, Inc., a leading global provider of advanced voice and audio processors for the mobile and telecom marketplace, today announced plans to deliver noise suppression technology solutions for AT&T wireless devices.  Based on reverse-engineering the human hearing system, the Audience voice processor chip can identify the primary voice in conversation and cancel out background noise, intermittent sounds and echoes, whether speaking or listening, to improve mobile call quality in noisy environments.

“We are excited about the opportunity to work with AT&T to deliver our advanced noise suppression technology to their devices, enabling mobile phone users to take and make calls independent of surrounding conditions, freed from having to adapt their phone usage to noise,” said Peter Santos, president and chief executive officer, Audience. “Combining our audio processing expertise and technology with AT&T’s market leadership and insight, we also see exciting opportunities to deploy our technology to enable voice as the next generation interface for mobile device functions and applications.”

The Audience noise suppression technology will be introduced across a selection of AT&T mobile handsets, from various equipment manufacturers, in the first half of 2010.  For mobile customers, the technology significantly improves the quality of voice communications, by providing immunity to background noise, and automatically adjusting voice volume and equalization during calls to adapt to local noise interference.  The technology also enhances performance for voice-based mobile applications such as voice search and user verification.

“AT&T is pleased to work with Audience to enhance our customer experience toward our ongoing commitment to deliver the most compelling device portfolio in the industry,” said Jeff Bradley, Senior Vice President, Devices, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets.  “Audience provides a unique and industry-leading solution to an ongoing challenge for mobile users — background noise — and allows clear and successful communication in nearly any environment.”

About Audience

Audience is a voice processor semiconductor company that enables clear communications anywhere with noise suppression technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system.  The technology is applicable across a broad range of consumer products where voice needs to be intelligible in noisy environments.  Audience was the Silver Winner in the 2008 Wall Street JournalTechnology Innovation Awards and the Winner of the Semiconductor category.  The company was included in Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Semiconductors, 2008” and selected as the Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up for the “2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards.”  Audience is one of 34 founding member companies of the Open Handset Alliance and the only provider of advanced noise suppression technology.  Investors in Audience include New Enterprise Associates, Vulcan Capital, Tallwood Venture Capital and VentureTech Alliance.  Audience is based in Mountain View, California.  www.audience.com

Bielsko-Biala/Poland, January 26th, 2010 – The silicon intellectual property (IP) provider, Evatronix SA, introduced today the latest release of the software driver for its NAND Flash memory controller IP core. The driver supports all functionalities of the controller as well as introduces a few new features to facilitate NAND Flash application development.

“Development of software drivers for our IP cores is a very important element of our strategy to provide complete IP solutions,” said Arkadiusz Buchalik, Memory Controllers Product Line Manager at Evatronix. “All Evatronix memory controller IP – SD/SDIO/MMC host, NAND Flash and Parallel ATA host controllers are complemented with software drivers to shorten application design time and cut time-to-market to the necessary minimum.”

About the Evatronix NAND Flash Controller Software Driver

The Evatronix NAND Flash Memory Controller Software Driver is written entirely in ANSI C for operating system independence. It natively supports memories from such manufacturers as Numonyx, Samsung, Micron and Toshiba, but thanks to a unified set of commands it can be easily configured to support custom memory chips.

The latest release of the driver features a set of configurable options for best fit to customer’s application. These options include support for implementation of an indirect DMA buffer, DMA and Bad Block Scan modules as well as for configurable system clock frequencies. The release also allows software configuration of hardware ECC (Error Correction Code) settings.

About the Evatronix NAND Flash Memory Controller IP Core

The Evatronix NAND Flash Memory Controller provides support for Single and Multi Level Cell memories and for High Speed NAND Flash memories that reach up to 200 MT/s. The controller is compatible with the ONFi 2.2 specification for compatibility with Micron and Numonyx memory chips, but also features support for memories from other manufacturers, like Samsung or Toshiba.

The controller features an internal OCP socket for straightforward implementation into any system bus. For shorter time-to-market, a set of wrappers for AMBA^® AHB, OPB, PLB, Avalon and FlexBus system buses is available.

About Evatronix

Evatronix SA, founded in 1991 in Poland, develops electronic virtual components (IP cores) along with complementary software and supporting development environments. The company also provides electronic design services. Product lines cover a multitude of solutions from interface controllers and microprocessors to integrated System-on-Chip development platforms.

Evatronix IP cores are available directly or through the sales network of its strategic distribution partner, CAST, Inc. (www.cast-inc.com).

Evatronix is headquartered in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, and employs over 75 engineers.

For more information about the company please visit the company’s website at www.evatronix-ip.com or contact Jacek Duda at +48 32 231 11 71 ext. 22 or jacek.duda(at)evatronix-ip.com.