Chip is Part of Winbond's Telephony IC Family
(San Jose, CA) Winbond Electronics Corporation America, a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions, today introduced the W681512, a single channel voice CODEC chip aimed at telephony, communications and consumer applications requiring analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog conversion. The W681512 is part of a growing family of voice CODEC chip solutions that Winbond offers. The chip is currently sampling and is competitively priced at under $1.15 in 25,000 quantities.
"The W681512 is suited for a wide variety of applications that require voice converted to digital data including VoIP, telephony and communications applications," said Boaz Efroni Rotman, CODEC product marketing manager for Winbond America. "The chip is based on Winbond's advanced mixed-signal technology and as such, provides a high-quality solution that is compliant with the latest industry standards. In addition, the feature rich solution is extremely competitively priced and offers very low power consumption."
The W681512 is a single channel CODEC for voice-grade, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion. The voice CODEC includes a fully differential output to minimize noise and is a drop-in replacement for the Motorola MC145480 and MC14LC5480. In order to provide the cleanest signal possible, the chip complies with ITU-T G.712 and ITU-T G.711 industry standard specifications. The 5V IC features low power consumption and enables system level customization. In addition, in compliance with environmental mandates due to take effect by 2006, the W681512 is the first in Winbond's voice CODEC product line to be made available in lead-free packaging.
For more information:
Julie DiBene
Director, Corporate Communications
Winbond Electronics Corporation America
Phone: 1-408-544-2625
Fax: 1-408-544-1787
E-Mail: :jdibene@Winbond.com