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White papers describe our products and technology in greater detail and are recommended for engineers and engineering managers. All white papers are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format and require online registration.

ARC’s Loudness Advantage White Paper: ARC® Sonic Focus™audio post-processing software can increase perceived loudness in consumer electronic devices at lower power consumption. This leads to important benefits such as longer battery life, lower bill-of-materials (BoM) costs and improved design flexibility.

Evaluation of ARC’s Loudness Advantage by Charles Salter Associates: This technical white paper presents the results of an independent study into ARC’s Loudness Advantage by renowned audio consultants Charles Salter Associates in San Francisco. The study investigates the sound pressure level (SPL) difference to achieve equal loudness with and without the use of the Sonic Focus algorithms.

ARC® Sound Solutions White Paper: OEMs and chip suppliers looking for a solution that can provide a rich, engaging digital audio listening experience to the mobile consumer while saving bill-of-material and silicon cost will find this white paper informative. It describes a solution that can reduce OEM BoM cost up to $3 million while saving the chip vendor up to $1 million in silicon expense. In addition, the solution comes with power savings features that enable the semiconductor supplier to provide the OEM with a chip that can power an MP3 player up to 100 hours on a single battery charge.

A Brief History of Video Coding White Paper: Almost everyone in the industrialized world uses video compression many times each day. Whether you’re watching Oprah on TV, funny clips on YouTube, Disney on DVD or homemade movies of your family, all video storage and delivery mechanisms rely heavily on compression technology.

ARC® FPX White Paper: ARC FPX is a set of licensable extensions for the ARC® 600 and 700 families of 32-bit processor cores. The extensions provide high performance floating point math instructions which dramatically accelerate computations where high precision is required. Hardware floating point arithmetic is often required in applications such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS), printing, imaging, flat panel displays (FPD), 3D graphics transformations, sensors and measurement, and automotive controls.

ARC® Video White Paper: ARC Video White Paper: The ARC Video Subsystem is a configurable multi-standard video decoding subsystem for low-power, low-cost applications. The paper describes the ARC Video media subsystem, which decodes all major video-coding standards including H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Simple and Advanced Simple profiles.

ARC® VRaptor™ White Paper: ARC’s VRaptor™ Architecture is the basis for a series of media processing subsystems under development at ARC. This white paper describes current and future requirements of media processing systems and highlights how the VRaptor Architecture addresses them.

Customizing a Soft Microprocessor Core White Paper: This three-page white paper is a quick, easy introduction to ARC’s configurable microprocessor technology. It covers the basic principles and explains the advantages of customizable soft IP over the rigid architectures of conventional CPUs and hard cores.

How to Reduce Time-to-Market for System-on-Chip Design: How can complex designs be achieved in less time? This white paper takes a look at each stage in the design cycle and explores ways developers can exploit the potential of IP to actually reduce design costs, time-to-market, and overall risk.