Products and Solutions

Market Ready Solutions

ARC International is a leading provider of the multimedia technology behind next generation consumer devices that capture, share and play high quality digital media. Over 150+ customers worldwide have chosen ARC’s innovative and award-winning technology and collectively ship more than 300 million ARC-Based™ chips annually. ARC products are fully integrated, cut development costs for OEM and semiconductor companies, and increase the competitiveness of customers' ARC-Based™ devices.
 
"Sound-to-Silicon" Solutions



ARC’s "Sound-to-Silicon" solutions comprise ARC’s industry-leading audio enrichment software, low power hardware platform, optimized codecs and software. These products cut OEM and chip vendor costs, shorten time to market and deliver original performance sound quality to consumer products.

 


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Sonic Focus Audio Enrichment Technology



Sonic Focus Audio Enrichment Technology significantly enhances the consumer multimedia experience by bringing greater clarity and realism to sound derived from digitized audio streams. Sonic Focus technology is optimized to the industry leading ARC Sound Subsystem.

 


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Multimedia Subsystems



ARC provides a wide range of audio and video subsystems ideal for SoCs that power the next generation consumer devices. Supported by a full suite of development tools these programmable, multi-standard subsystems reduce design risk and help designers get to market quickly.

 


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Configurable Cores



ARC provides a compatible range of configurable 32-bit processors that offer both RISC and full performance DSP capabilities in a unified architecture. They range from the world's smallest, lowest power licensable 32-bit core to a full-featured host processor that delivers over 1000 DMIPS of performance with half the die size and power of competing cores. ARC's newest cores, the Energy PRO family, take energy efficiency to a new level with advanced system-level power-management capabilities.


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Configurable Extensions



ARC offers optional configurable instruction extensions for all of its cores and subsystems, which provide full DSP capability and the performance of hardware floating point instructions, and realtime trace for rapid software debug.


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Software & Development Tools



The key to differentiating and future proofing programmable solutions is simple: Accelerate the develop/debug/optimize cycle time.

ARC's end-to-end suite of software and development tools allow the designer to “close the loop” faster, quickly iterating between IP configuration, simulation, assessment, and if required, re-configuration. The faster this loop, the faster designers are able to decide upon the optimal confirmation for their requirements and develop software

 



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Technology Leadership



ARC is bringing multiple award-winning and revolutionary technologies to build multimedia subsystems that will enable SoCs to deliver high quality consumer experience. Sonic Focus technology delivers studio quality audio. The innovative VRaptor architecture is powering the scalable multimedia subsystems. The Energy PRO system-level power management technology provides best-in-class energy efficiency. And the patented configurable technology helps SoC designers create differentiated products in minutes.


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