Long (wireless) music play-time!

MusiCore1 resolves the fundamental problem that has held back consumer acceptance of 'music phones': short battery life. 

If the phone's main processor is used for decoding digital music streams, power consumption is usually unacceptable - leading to battery durations as short as 10 hours. 

The alternative implementation option of a dedicated music processing IC delivers a long battery life when used with wired headphones, but typically very poor power economy if music is streamed wirelessly to stereo headphones (as little as <10 hours). Many handset developers are unable or unwilling to consider this option because of cost and PCB space issues.

MusiCore1 allows the phone's host processor to sleep while music is streamed, resulting in playtimes of up to 100 hours from a typical 800 mAh cellphone battery.  (A typical dedicated MP3 player offers 24 hours.)  This is possible because, unlike existing implementations, the unique design of the MusiCore1 silicon allows us to maintain the A2DP link without waking the host processor.

MusiCore1's open DSP core also provides enormous flexibility to differentiate products with audio enhancement technologies such as stereo separation (over 40 vendors currently support it).