ARC International

Products

Market Ready Product Technology

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.
 
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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ARC Sound Family Audio Subsystems



Whether your SoC provides low power, premium sound on today’s portable devices, or powers multiple channels of surround sound in the living room, ARC’s Configurable Audio Subsystem is perfectly suited to your requirements. ARC’s audio subsystems provide the most efficient, most complete Audio DSP’s in the industry.

 


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ARC Video Family Video Subsystems



Whether your SoC is streaming video from the internet, playing back transcoded content in a portable media player, or capturing video on your cell phone for video conferencing, ARC’s Video subsystems provide the most flexible, efficient solution for programmable, SD Video encode and decode. .

 


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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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ARC Codecs



Whether you’re building an SOC for ultra-low power portable applications or for high performance broadcast and connected home entertainment systems, ARC provides the audio and video codecs you need: heavily optimized, easy to integrate and thoroughly tested and developed and supported by ARC staff.

 



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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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