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Rationalising Consumer Audio - The Perspective from a Fabless Startup

Consumer audio products are poorly integrated by the standards of a modem PC. Global Silicon, a three year old company, has designed a chipset to rationalise these products. This paper describes some of the steps involved in the set-up of the company the design process and aspects of the chips design. The relevance of the chips to CD MP3 playback is discussed.

Author: Brennan, Martin
Affiliation: Global Silicon Ltd, Marlow, UK
AES Conference:UK 16th Conference: Silicon for Audio (April 2001)
Paper Number:uk019 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Silicon for Audio

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