SigmaTel enables a true multimedia experience. Founded in 1993, SigmaTel, Inc. a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Austin,Texas, designs, develops, and markets proprietary, analog intensive, mixed-signal ICs for a variety of digital multimedia products in the consumer electronics markets, including digital media players, multi-function peripheral products, digital photo frames and digital televisions. SigmaTel provides worldwide infrastructure and complete, system-level solutions that include highly-integrated ICs, customizable firmware and software, software development tools, reference designs, and applications support to add value to multinational companies. The Company's focus is on providing system-level solutions that enable customers to rapidly introduce and offer electronic products that are small, light-weight, power-efficient, reliable, and cost-effective.

     SigmaTel Portable Media Player solutions empower device manufacturers and designers to create portable multimedia products that go beyond today's ordinary media players. The Consumer Audio product family offers high performance audio for handheld devices. SigmaTel Multi-Function Peripheralsolutions provide the core system control that enables printer, photo-printer, copier, scanner and fax machine functionality on a single device.

     SigmaTel has built a strong reputation as an innovative developer of mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, and strives to be the global leader in all the markets that it competes. SigmaTel is ISO 9001:2000 certified and is committed to providing customers with high quality products along with superior customer support.

    Sigmatel portable audio SoCs are highly-integrated, battery-optimized ICs designed to decode compressed audio files, such as MP3 files. We offer a broad range of portable audio SoCs at various price points and with a variety of features.

View the 2007 Q2 Portable SoC Product Guide

• #1 in flash-based MP3 player market segment
• Designed in the top selling MP3 players
• Longest battery life with >50 hours
• Hi-Speed USB 2.0 capability

SigmaTel audio SoC solutions provide high quality audio playback for portable devices such as MP3 flash players, language learners, and jukeboxes. These solutions offer market-leading benefits with BOM costs as much as 30% lower than competitor pricing. These benefits include Hi-Speed USB, 50 hours of life on a single AA battery and incredibly small form factor designs as small as 14.5 square cm. With flexible software support and upgrade options, the SigmaTel SoC solution offers support for MP3 and WMA audio format algorithms as well as security in WMA DRM. The SigmaTel SoC solution is a true single-chip solution that maintains a flexible interface with other integrated circuits for incorporation into PDAs or cell phones. SigmaTel SoCs offer a high level of integration and quality with low power consumption and cost, making portable audio devices with more features available to consumers at a lower price point.

SigmaTel SoC audio solutions deliver high performance digital audio with an integrated USB interface and other key interface components. The combination of SigmaTel’s high performance audio codec, DSP, USB interface, and general purpose I/O creates a powerful single-chip audio decoder for low-cost designs.