3DsoundSurge Press Release: Bose Uses Analog Devices' Signal Processing Technology to Power Music Systems

Bose Uses Analog Devices' Signal Processing Technology to Power Music Systems

- SHARC(R) DSPs enable highest performance audio signal processing.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI) today announced that Bose Corporation incorporates high performance signal processing components developed by Analog Devices across its entire line of Lifestyle® home theater systems, which includes the innovative Lifestyle 50 home theater system. These Bose systems use two Analog Devices' Melody(TM) decoders, running on the 32-bit SHARC® DSP, to perform 5.1-channel Dolby® Digital decoding and Bose proprietary Videostage® 5 decoding. The announcement was made at the Audio Engineering Society Conference, which opened here today. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000501/ADILOGO )

``The ability for Bose engineers to create innovative software without processor limitations is key to our product development process. That is why we selected the SHARC processor family. The combination of floating-point, a large internal memory, and a rich instruction set simplifies the programming task and reduces our development time and expense,'' said Dr. Paul Beckmann, Project Engineer, Bose Corporation.

``The Bose Lifestyle home theater systems take full advantage of Analog Devices' end-to-end 32-bit audio signal processing technology to deliver recording studio sound to home theatre sound,'' said Mike Haidar, general manager, Software & Systems Division, Analog Devices. ``Bose is helping to bring 32-bit digital audio to become a market reality and a de facto industry standard.''

The digital entertainment market represents an estimated $4 billion dollars in annual sales of data converters, DSPs and analog circuits used in high performance audio/video applications, according to WSTS. These applications include high end audio/video receivers, digital still cameras, camcorders, DVD players, LCD monitors, and scanners. In many of these applications, Analog Devices is the market share leader, with core technologies to enable continued leadership and customer innovations.

About the Melody Decoder

The Melody Decoder decodes and post-processes soundtracks encoded with the leading digital audio formats: DTS-ES Extended Surround (including both DTS-ES® Discrete 6.1 and DTS-ES Matrix 6.1), DTS Neo:6(TM), Dolby® Digital, Dolby® Headphone(TM) and Dolby® Pro Logic®, THX(TM) and THX Surround EX(TM), AAC and Stereo.

About Bose

Bose Corporation is best known as an American innovator in the manufacturing of quality sound systems. Founded in 1964 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dr. Amar G. Bose, the company maintains an exceptionally strong commitment to research and is the world's largest manufacturer of component quality home stereo loudspeakers, high-end integrated music and home theater systems, and acoustically customized automotive systems.

About Analog Devices

With $1.8 billion in revenues for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2000, Analog Devices is a leading manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications. Headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, the company employs approximately 8,600 people worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, Ireland, the Philippines and Taiwan. Analog Devices' stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the company is included in the S&P 500 Index.

Note to Editors: SHARC is a registered trademark and Melody is a trademark of Analog Devices, Inc.

DTS is a registered trademark and DTS-ES Extended Surround, DTS-ES and DTS Neo:6 are trademarks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc.

``Dolby,'' the double-D symbols and ``Pro Logic'' are registered trademarks and Surround EX and Dolby Headphone are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

Lifestyle, Videostage and Bose are registered trademarks of Bose Corporation.

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