Products & Solutions

ARC® Multimedia Subsystems

Enhance the Consumer's Multimedia Experience with ARC’s Market Ready Audio and Video Solutions

Next generation multimedia-capable devices have to enable capture, sharing and playback of digital media and at the same time meet increasingly demanding levels of realism, clarity and convenience. Designers face the challenge of creating SoCs that meet the needs of the consumer market while minimizing risk and remaining competitive. ARC International’s extensive portfolio of market ready solutions enables engineering teams to address these very issues and create highly differentiated SoCs that deliver high quality multimedia experiences.

ARC® Multimedia Subsystems Benefits

Create SoCs that Enable Unsurpassed Consumer Experiences 

• Playback any content, any where, on any device
• Capture and playback exceptional quality video
• Deliver studio quality sound using Sonic Focus technology
• Extend battery life using Energy PRO technology

Differentiate to Keep theCompetitive Edge

• Get a head-start by picking the right application-optimized subsystem
• Fine-tune to create efficient, custom solutions using configurability
• Programmability allows for user-defined value-add creation

Maximize Success and Minimize Your Design Risk

• Silicon proven subsystems ensure right-first-time solution
• Target multiple markets with the same solution
• Full programmability permits “future-proof” design
• Complete development tools and design flow support

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ARC® Multimedia Subsystem Family

ARC® Sound Subsystem

Enable Capture and Playback of Studio Quality Audio

The ARC Sound Subsystem enables a studio-quality, multi-channel experience from lossy-compressed audio using the Sonic Focus technology. This multi-standard, programmable decode/encode solution from ARC supports all popular formats and is capable of handling multi-stream audio and additional pre- and post-processing at the lowest power consumption.
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ARC® Video Subsystem

Enable Capture and Playback of Exceptional Quality Video

ARC Video Subsystems provide high quality video encode and decode solutions to facilitate the creation of highly differentiated video-capable devices.  Each ARC Video family member incorporates must-have video and imaging codecs in a pre-verified, programmable environment.  Designers can choose from the five different application-optimized subsystems for their ideal solution.   
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ARC® Media Subsystem

Fully Integrated, High Quality Audio/Video Playback Subsystem

ARC Media 401V is an integrated, pre-verified audio and video subsystem that delivers a high quality multimedia experience using Sonic Focus technology. The programmable AM 401V Subsystem supports all popular audio and video formats and synchronous audio/video playback. By integrating and pre-verifying audio and video capabilities ARC has eliminated the integration task for SoC designers thereby accelerating time-to-market.
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ARC® Multimedia Subsystem Development Tools

Advanced Hardware and Software Development Environment for Quick Time-to-Market

ARC provides tools for integrating hardware IP and software licensed from ARC into customer SoCs.  ARC tools support configuring customized versions of ARC subsystems, as well as developing, modeling, and debugging software and hardware.  ARC’s advanced tools work with a broad offering of third party industry standard tools needed for taking products from concept to production.
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ARC® Codec Libraries

Enable Long-Term, Strategic Development and Planning of Multimedia SoCs

ARC’s codec libraries address the ever growing need for SoC designers to support more and more multimedia formats. The codec libraries provide access to current and future formats required for their applications. This simplifies long-term strategic planning of chip companies, allowing them to better meet the changing requirements of evolving consumer electronics devices.
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ARC® Multimedia Subsystem Selector Chart

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Customer Testimonials

“ARC presented a programmable solution to accommodate the evolution of standards.”		“Our investment in ARC is a strategic decision for Fujitsu.”		“We are pleased to standardize a key element of our technology strategy on ARC.”

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