IndigoVision and Cirrus Logic pave way for MP4 video players
06 February 2001   

Licensing agreement signed to develop IP Video for Maverick Chips

Edinburgh, Scotland - 6th February 2001 - IndigoVision Group plc today announced that it has completed a licensing agreement with Cirrus Logic Inc. to develop real-time networked video capability for Cirrus Logic's industry-leading, ARM-powered Maverick product line.

The agreement will enable Cirrus Logic and IndigoVision to jointly develop a new level of market specific processor embedding IndigoVision's VideoBridge(r) technology and offering customers in the 2002 timeframe a scaleable networked video solution, satisfying major video standards in the market, including MPEG4, H26X and M-JPEG.

The combination of Cirrus Logic embedded processors and IndigoVision's VideoBridge software will enable manufacturers to deploy Maverick chip sets in future generation consumer appliances, including personal portable MP4 players, digital TVs, web TV receivers, in-car entertainment systems, handheld devices, set-top boxes, DVD players, video servers and closed circuit TVs.

MPEG-4 technology promises improved quality video over the Internet while enabling multimedia applications for both landline and mobile networks. MPEG-4 market applications include video-on-demand, Internet video games, videoconferencing, video surveillance via the Internet, videophones and other implementations.

IndigoVision has invested more than 130 man years of development time in the VideoBridge technology which now offers the most complete set of hardware and software IP Video enabling solutions on the market, combining all the elements of visual communications into one fully integrated suite: video acquisition, compression, transmission, analysis, recording, administration and viewing.

"The addition of high quality, real time video to the Maverick chip is a natural extension of our business model and of Maverick's audio capability," said Matthew Perry, vice president and general manager of Cirrus Logic's Embedded Processors Division. "That same technology also gives us the opportunity to take our knowledge of audio content distribution and security and apply it to video."

"This deal is a landmark for our business and the industry," says Sergio Tansini, IndigoVision's Chief Operating Officer. "The agreement with Cirrus Logic now offers product designers a fantastic opportunity to enable full frame, real time, audio-visual communications for Internet and telecommunications applications and will change the way the world communicates."


About IndigoVision Group plc

Founded in 1994, IndigoVision has to date developed five generations of VideoBridge(r) technology, a complete set of hardware and software IP Video (IPV) enabling solutions, which manufacturers can use in design, integrated system or product form. This enables clients to produce their own visual communications products, enabling real-time video to be transmitted over intra-, extra-, internet networks in IT, telecommunications and security & surveillance markets.

VideoBridge(r) combines all the elements of visual communications into one fully integrated suite of technology: video acquisition, compression, transmission, analysis, recording, administration and viewing. IndigoVision designs and develops next-generation, multi-standard networked IP Video (IPV) solutions on behalf of OEMs, Integrators and Installers globally.

Based in Edinburgh, with offices in the USA and an office in Japan, IndigoVision floated on the London Stock Exchange (IND.L) in August 2000.

About Cirrus Logic Inc.

Cirrus Logic is a premier supplier of high-performance analog and DSP chip solutions for Internet entertainment electronics. Building on its global market share leadership in audio integrated circuits and its rich mixed-signal patent portfolio, the company targets high-volume audio, storage and communications applications. Cirrus Logic sells its products under the Crystal(r), Maverick(tm) and 3Ci(tm) brands as well as its own name.

Founded in 1984 in Silicon Valley, Cirrus Logic operates from headquarters in Austin, Texas and major sites located in Fremont, California and Broomfield, Colorado as well as offices in Europe, Japan and Asia. Cirrus listed on the Nasdaq National Market in 1989 under the symbol CRUS

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