News - Tuesday 23rd March 2004 - 2:47pm
Integrated solution optimized for Atsana’s array processor offers enhanced
gaming experience with reduced time to market for handset OEM’s and regional
operators
Atsana Semiconductor, a developer
of power-efficient, programmable multimedia processors for mobile devices, and
an enabler in the mobile gaming industry, today announced a strategic partnership
to enhance the gaming experience in 2.5G and 3G mobile phones and to reduce the
time to market in regional territories around the world.
The mophun™ games engine by Synergenix, including OpenGL® ES and JSR
184 compliant modules, is now available on Atsana’s media processors, providing
exceptional gaming performance. By offering a game-centric SDK and APIs, it shortens
the game developer’s time to market and allows for the creation of high
performance, high quality, true binary cross platform portable 2D and 3D games.
The mophun™ platform optimized to run on Atsana’s media processors
provides handset developers with over 150 game titles, offering exceptionally
high performance and quality gaming for their next generation feature phones.
“Combining mophun™ with Atsana’s new J2211 multimedia processor
gives ODMs and OEMs a competitive edge,” said Göran Sander, Business
Area Director – Handsets at Synergenix. “The embedded nature of the
J2211 makes integration simple. Having the mophun™ Run Time Engine (RTE)
execute on Atsana’s massively parallel architecture provides a significant
performance boost that is achieved at extremely low power consumption. Atsana
also has impressive traction in regional markets so the channel opportunity is
strong.”
The J2211 by Atsana is a low power, high performance, fully programmable system-on-a-chip
(SoC) that functions as a companion processor to handset baseband processors.
The J2211 features Atsana’s massively parallel Array Processor as well as
an ARM9 RISC processor, providing a powerful yet fully programmable solution for
video, image audio and graphics processing.
“The global mobile phone industry has widely adopted mophun™ with
gaming applications in dozens of handset models,” said Vivek Chhabra, Head
of Software Partnerships & Alliances at Atsana. “The mophun™ games
engine optimized to run on the J2211 accelerates the mobile gaming experience
by offering high performance, high quality games in real-time without battery
drain. The integrated solution combined with a wide variety of regional content
allows the handset manufacturers & mobile operators to offer a more competitive
gaming experience with a reduced time to market.”
About Atsana Semiconductor
Atsana Semiconductor Corp. is a leader in the development of fully
programmable, low-power consumption multimedia processors for wireless
devices such as handsets, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and network
cameras. The semiconductor company’s array processing technology enables
the
creation of multimedia wireless devices that consume two to three times less
power than solutions offered today. In addition, Atsana’s processor enables
better quality video encoding, supports higher resolution, and is easily
scalable and programmable to support a myriad of multimedia applications and
standards. Atsana is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada and has operations in
Silicon Valley, California. For more information, visit www.atsana.com.
About Synergenix Interactive
Synergenix Interactive AB is a key enabler in the mobile gaming industry.
Their software based gaming accelerator, mophun™, enables a media rich
gaming experience on all phone platforms from low end mass market handsets
to high-end Smartphones. By using mophun™ enhanced handsets mobile network
operators, mobile phone manufacturers and game developers can increase their
gaming revenue by offering games with unparalleled performance, graphics and
game play. Synergenix also supports mobile network operators and other game
distributors with an online market place to allow easy access to game
content from third party developers. The company is located in Stockholm,
Sweden. For more information, visit www.synergenix.se