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MIPS Technologies and Tensilica will work together to accelerate system-on-a-chip (SOC) design activity for mobile devices running Google’s Android operating system. The companies will display a demo of a MIPS32 processor core integrated with Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio digital signal processor (DSP) at the International CES in Las Vegas next month.

Together, the two technologies will help other companies speed up the development of devices such as mobile phones, high-definition TVs, and Blu-ray players that run Android. Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio DSP has low power consumption and more than 60 audio codecs covering almost every standard from MP3 to DTS, said Art Swift, vice president of marketing for MIPS Technologies.

The MIPS ecosystem around Android enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to quickly optimize Android for their specific platforms and debug their solutions across the entire software stack.