Tensilica has ported the RealAudio 8, 9, and 10 decoders from digital entertainment services company RealNetworks to the HiFi 2 Audio DSP, the industry’s leading licensable audio DSP.

RealAudio uses advanced audio compression techniques to allow users to achieve high quality sound in a wide bandwidth range, and is the format used by many users of cellular phones, portable media players, and mobile internet devices.

With over 50 popular voice and audio decoders and encoders already ported to it, Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine is a popular processor core optimized specifically for audio. It has been designed into millions of cellular phones as well as consumer audio equipment.

"RealAudio content is widely available on the internet and through music services such as Rhapsody. We added the RealAudio decoders to our software library to meet the demands of our customers serving the mobile and home entertainment markets," said Larry Przywara, Tensilica's director of mobile multimedia.

The RealAudio decoder is available now.

More information: www.tensilica.com