Business Model: Licensing, pre-configured IP sales, custom SoC integration services

Market Domain: Platform solution, designer-configurable embedded DSP engine in System on Chip (SoC) solutions for fabless or IDM semiconductor companies.

• Applications: Low-power-consumption parallel processing covering conventional application fields of DSP(Digital Signal Processor), DMP(Digital Media Processor) and SPP(Super Parallel Processors).
• Architecture: RISC and VLIW mixed within the same configuration platform.
• Computing Power: Processor Arrays are configurable with heterogeneous instances of common cores (formed by commonly used ALU, etc.) and dedicated cores (formed by designer designed computing units).
• Configurability: Silicon Compiler, SoC Composer, Designer Defined Computing Units, Inter-core and Intra-slot Pipeline, Field Upgradable including DDCU.
• Dedicated design automations with commercial-grade tools for design, analysis and verification, interfaced with popular EDA flows the next generation of IC designs.

History: 

• JazzDSP Invented in 1997: Boston MA, USA, by Ussery etc. of Improv Systems (US$30+M, 150man-yr)
• JazzDSP IP migration and applications to China 2007: Beijing, by Ussery, Berman, Luo, Guo, etc. of Vivace Semiconductor (US$3M, 100man-yr)
• FusionDSP™ Concept Development in 2008: Dr. Peilin Luo, Ussery, Luo, Berman, Novick, etc. of XH Microelectronics team, documented on Frontier Science (A China Ministry of Science and Technology original and source journal), Q4, 2008.

Current Team: Leader, Cary Ussery, Technical Staff: Luo, Nystrom, Chen, Asher, Guo, Berman, etc.
An independent IP hosting in BVI since 2010: technical support by Ussery, 3rd Domain Ltd.
Academic Citation: China Frontier Sciences《前沿科技》2008, China NSF 2006-08, etc.

Enabling Mobile Embedded DSP with a Platform Approach:
Retrofit on conventional Application Specific Logic Systems (ASIC) with configurability & lean
Architecture: Heterogeneous, pipeline-processing configurable VLIW multiple DSP cores
Low-power-consumption compared to world leading Application-specific Standard Parts (ASSP) such as TI and ADI, as well other ASIC approaches
Quick-turn design backed by complete EDA solutions, simulations, and a content-rich IP library of DDCU (designer defined computing unit).

Dedicated Technologies:

• Proprietary configurable VLIW architecture
• Configurable DSP with Designer Defined Computing Units (DDCU) to support application-specific DSP algorithms
• Asynchronous Embedded FPGA delivers high-speeds supporting 2GHz SoC logic, with Reconfigurable high-speed DDCU in the DSP
• Wide spectrum of algorithm knowledge and engineering skills in variety of DSP applications

Architectural Comparison:                          

JazzDSP’s practical advantages: International Embedded Micorprocessor BenchmarkConsortium has tested the following results on DecoderMark™ (Main Score, the optimized test) the first place; then single measured out-of-box in front, in comparison with similar-scale processors (details see characterizations announced on EEMBC website):

Marketing and application history: JazzDSP & MicroDSP embedded processor have been successfully used by Vivace, Freescale, Philips, Thrane&Thrane, Conexant, etc.