ExpressDSP-compliant Offerings Target Voice/Wireless Applications

By Mark Long -- e-inSITE, 1/28/2002

HelloSoft has released ExpressDSP-compliant voice and wireless communications components for the company's HelloVoice, HelloWireless, and HelloWLAN product lines. Targeted at next-generation VoIP Gateway, IP Phone, GPRS PDA/Handset and WLAN Adaptor/Access Point applications, the components are based on Texas Instruments' TMS320C5000 and TMS320C6000 DSP platforms.

"Designers developing on TI's power-efficient C5000 DSPs and the highest-performance C6000 DSPs can benefit from HelloSoft's newly announced ExpressDSP-compliant algorithms," said TI's ExpressDSP platform manager John Schanzenbach in a prepared statement. "By using Hellosoft's ExpressDSP-compliant algorithms in their design, product developers will have an edge over their competition by incorporating tested and approved code allowing them to get to market as quickly as possible ahead of the competition."

HelloVoice is a voice-over-packet communication offering for low-end IP phones, mid-range customer premise equipment (CPE), and high-end gateways. The technology includes VoIP codecs, as well as telephony and networking protocols.

Integrating both the Physical Layer and networking protocols, HelloWireless is a wireless data offering for 2.5G/3G mobile, EDGE/GPRS/WCDMA (UMTS) GSM network applications.

Designed for integration with commercially available RF product lines, the company's HelloWLAN release is an optimized implementation of the IEEE 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g standards that integrates both the Physical layer and the MAC layer, as well as QoS and security functionalities.