Dolphin Integration Announces their new generation of CODEC providing a Signal to Noise Ratio of 100 dB

Grenoble, France -- December 21, 2006 -- Dolphin Integration SA is proud to announce their new generation of  CODEC providing a Signal to Noise Ratio of 100 dB is now available for integration into advanced mixed-signal SoC.

A real 100 dB CODEC per the “Practical benchmark”, at no compromise of power consumption, silicon area and yield, was the true challenge now faced successfully.

shCODlp-100.01 is the best contributor to the Return-On-Investment of a SoC:

• a silicon area of 4.2 mm2 for the whole CODEC at no extra fabrication cost:  5 metal layers over a logic process at 0.13 µm
• SNR is guaranteed at ViC level with complete integration guidelines, including characterization to resilience from Rest-of-SoC noise

User-specific configurations with adapted features can be released on request with silicon area down to 3.2 mm2