Bringing Rich Media to Your Television

SAN JOSE, CALIF. January 3, 2006 - C2 Microsystems, Inc., the leading developer of fully programmable media processor for low cost, high performance and networked media, today announced the release of first generation Media Processor CC1000 for Digital Home Media Devices and Portable Media Devices.

The CC1000 media processor is a high performance, great integration and fully software programmable SoC (System on Chip) design. The advanced CC1000 architecture includes a 250MHz (800 DMIPS) super scalar Host Processor, on chip caches and memory management unit, running Linux Operation System, middle-ware, browser and other system applications. It also integrated software programmable 256-bit Vector DSP and co-processing engines optimized for video, audio and image processing. The CC1000 also includes an interleaved 32-bit DDR2-667 memory controller, which provides critical memory bandwidth for real time video processing.

There are 3 bidirectional video ports and 2 bidirectional audio ports on chip. That is enough to interfaces to acquired digital content and source to display unit. A high speed PCI-Express controller was integrated within CC1000 for network capability. It is capable support full bandwidth Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11n Wireless LAN. "More and more family has deployed home network beyond 100Mbps, CC1000 network bandwidth supports tomorrow digital home requirements. It reserves customer's investment", said Steve Stone, Vice President of C2 Microsystems.

Other important peripheral interfaces include SATA for Hard-Disk, and 2 USB 2.0 for mouse and keyboard and storage, irDA for remote controller. "The low BOM cost, high performance interactive TV with PVR and networking features can be easily implemented based on CC1000 using embedded rich I/O", said Steve Stone.

The fully software programmable feature and innovative system architecture offers flexibility to CC1000 capable of HD decoding and SD encoding any video, audio, image formats including MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264/AVC, WMV9/VC1, Real-networks, JPEG, GIF and customer proprietary formats. "Tomorrow's Digital Media Devices will all be connected, which make an request for content sharing like transferring recorded TV programs from IP-STB to PMP. The digital media's resolution, bit rate and format originally used for TV needed to be converted to PMP's relative smaller screen, i.e. transcoding. The CC1000 can do simultaneous encoding and decoding. The devices using CC1100 is capable of doing transcoding and connecting digital media." said by Steve Stone.

The CC1000 and Digital Media applications powered by CC1000 will be demoed at CES 2006.

About C2 Microsystems, Inc.

C2 Microsystems, Inc. was founded by a group of veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in May, 2004 with the target to create the best technology in the world for digital home and mobile entertainment. C2Micro is developing a family of low-cost, high performance, fully programmable SOCs which includes an integrated software development environment that is optimized for networked media from portable to high definition applications. C2's unique approach to media processing involves a blend of hardware and software implementation of all major audio and video codecs and an application framework that allows programmers total control of media applications: any codec, any resolution, any time, any where. For more information, visit C2 Micro online at www.c2micro.com.