HHTech Co. Ltd, a leader in embedded Linux technology provider in mainland China, and austriamicrosystems (SWX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog integrated circuits, have annou-nced that HHTech will provide its customers with a complete MP4/PMP pro-duction-ready solution based on austriamicrosystems’AS3525.

AS3525 is a 32-bit ARM9 core-based high-performance and ultra-integrated single-chip IC, ideal for all portable entertainment players in the OEM market. austriamicrosystems will leverage HHTech’s design capabilities on embe-dded solutions to provide customers with complete production-ready designs and help them minimise the time to market.

The AS3525 deploys the operation system of embedded Linux with enriched software functions. It supports XVID, RM/RMVB, FLV and 3GP video, MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, FLAC and WAV audio, as well as JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and dynamic GIF photos. It delivers video decoding performance at QVGA resolu-tion with 25 frames per second (fps). It supports previewing, zooming in and out and paralleling pictures. It also enables playback Flash in SWF and su-pports GB/GBC, NES and SNES game simulators.

“We are very excited about the partnership with HHTech. The extremely ca-pable engineering team from HHTech was able to quickly adapt Linux OS and entertainment applications to the austriamicrosystems’ mobile entertain-ment platform to produce a set of production-ready solutions for virtually any por-table consumer product, ” said Roberto Simmarano, Senior Director Mar-keting BU Communications at austriamicrosystems.

“The flexibility of our integrated platform, enhanced with the Linux opera-ting system, gives OEMs options for differentiation, creation of new products, at low price points and is quickly deployable to the market. austriamicro-systems is showing its commitment to supporting HHTech and its customers by deve-loping compelling and competitive solutions for the Chinese and international markets.”

“AS3525 IC by austriamicrosystems is featured with ultra integration. The in-ternally integrated ARM9 processor with a frequency of 250 MHz, is a com-plete power management unit, with a high-quality CODEC and other nece-ssary components for audio front-end and back-end processing analogy cir-cuits and systems. Using this IC, all the functions mentioned are found on a single chip which helps customers to greatly reduce the complexity and cost of hardware production,” said Jason Geng, Deputy General Manager of HHTech.

“HHTech has rich experiences in audio - video CODEC arithmetic software and embedded Linux software - hardware integrated solutions while having ca-pabilities of designing complete solutions and products rapidly. The accumu-lated technologies enable us to collaborate with austriamicro-systems to jointly design abundant products and accelerate time to market for customers.”

Established in 1998, when Embedded Linux Industry was first introduced, HHTech Co. Ltd. now is a leading embedded Linux solution provider in main-land China. It offers a variety of products and services covering complete pro-duction solution, embedded development boards, and customised em-bedded designs. Its embedded Linux product line supports the mainstream em-bedded processors made by vendors like ARM, Coldfire, PowerPC, ADSP and MIPS. HHTech offers audio coding and decoding arithmetic like H.264/ Divx/ Xvid/Real RM/RMVB and MP3/WMA/OGG/AAC/ FLAC/APE while providing upper level software such as PPP, PPPoE, Firewall and VPN, which serves customers with one-stop design.

austriamicrosystems is a leading designer and manufacturer of high perfor-mance analog ICs, combining more than 25 years of analog design capa-bilities and system know-how with its own state-of-the-art manufacturing and test facilities. austriamicrosystems leverages its expertise in low power and high accuracy to provide industry-leading customized and standard ana-log products. Operating worldwide with more than 1,000 employees, austria-microsystems focuses on the areas of power management, sensors & sensor interfaces, portable audio and car access in its markets Communications, In-dustry & Medical and Automotive, complemented by its Full Service Foundry activities. austriamicrosystems is listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange in Zurich (ticker symbol: AMS). For more information, please visit the web site at www.austriamicrosystems.com.