TeraLogic Partners With VividLogic, Inc., Adding HAVi-Compliant Software
To TeraLogic Platform
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- TeraLogic, Inc., a leading provider of technology that enables the digital home, today announced a partnership with VividLogic, Inc. to create a robust, comprehensive and off-the-shelf development platform compliant with the HAVi standard. The HAVi standard is a home networking software specification designed to allow seamless interoperability among home entertainment products. With the enhanced platform, manufacturers will be able to create digital audio/visual devices for consumers that immediately interoperate and have shared functionality, regardless of the manufacturer's brand.
"The future of consumer electronics will be founded on the concept of the networked home," said Dr. Peng Ang, TeraLogic's chairman and CEO. "Today, we are putting powerful tools in the hands of developers that will bring multi-purpose, integrated digital devices to the consumer market faster and more cheaply than ever before."
In December 1999, eight leading global consumer electronics, software, semi-conductor and computer manufacturers, including Sony, Thomson Multimedia and Toshiba, created the HAVi Organization to lay the groundwork for the future of digital devices. They realized the next step in the digital electronics revolution would come in the form of home entertainment devices actively communicating with each other, sharing data and functionality. The HAVi standard will allow consumers -- with no extra equipment or technical skills -- to plug a new audio/visual appliance in and it will automatically begin networking with any other HAVi-compliant device in the home. For example, an entire home entertainment center (TV, DVD player, VCR, stereo, speakers, CD player and even the family PC) could be linked and controlled from one remote control, with the menu displayed on the TV or PC.
"TeraLogic's partnership with VividLogic means a significant boost up for the HAVi-standard's position in the home electronics industry," said Shiva Patibanda, chief executive officer of VividLogic. "This is a combination of two leading edge companies dedicated to enabling a quantum leap in the capabilities of digital devices."
TeraLogic and VividLogic are active members of the HAVi Organization and are committed to a universal standard for digital home products. The partnership adds even greater functionality and flexibility to TeraLogic's Cougar digital television development platform, which will be used by consumer electronics end-manufacturers to create devices that will further establish HAVi capable devices in the consumer marketplace.
VividLogic will deliver its FireBus(TM) and HAVi interoperable software package software on TeraLogic's Cougar development platform. From the beginning, TeraLogic's Cougar DTV platform has been used by digital television product designers to create new and powerful products for the consumer. Powered by TeraLogic's TL850 IC, optimized to power high quality video and graphics signals in any standard format, the Cougar platform significantly reduces the time and costs for companies to take their products from research to delivery.
About TeraLogic, Inc.
Founded in 1996, TeraLogic, Inc. is leading the way in enabling the digital home. The company designs and develops integrated circuits, platforms and software for advanced TVs, set-top boxes and PC-TV convergence products. Using products powered by TeraLogic's technologies, consumers can enjoy the digital experience of crystal clear video and audio, Internet, electronic commerce, electronic program guides and interactive data services. TeraLogic is currently shipping ICs and platforms, and licensing software, to leading consumer electronics and personal computer manufacturers in the U.S., Japan, Europe and Korea. Customers and partners include ACCESS, Creative, Hauppauge, JVC, Kenwood, Lucent, Mitsubishi, NDS, NEC, Panasonic, Quantum, SONY, TiVo and Zayante. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., TeraLogic currently has over 90 employees and more than $70 million in invested capital. More information about TeraLogic may be obtained by calling the company directly at 650-526-2000 or by visiting the company's website at www.teralogic-inc.com.
About VividLogic, Inc.
VividLogic Inc. is a leading provider of IEEE 1394 and HAVi software. The company's innovative FireBus HAVi stack powers the next generation of CE devices in the digital home. FireBus provides the necessary HAVi compliant infrastructure and open APIs for third parties to develop applications that run seamlessly on multiple devices from different manufacturers. VividLogic is based in Fremont, CA with offices offshore in Hyderabad, India. Visit VividLogic on the Web at www.vividlogic.com or by phone at 510-791-2006.