OVERVIEW

The Athena Group, Inc. (Athena) licenses high-performance digital signal processing (DSP) semiconductor intellectual property (IP) that delivers breakthrough improvements in speed, power consumption, and cost. Athena supplies reusable IP rather than a chip or chip-set solution: technology ideal for system on a chip (SoC) devices. These SoC devices are at the heart of new generations of consumer electronics such as secure e-commerce, cell phones, and digital set-top boxes.

With TeraFire™ Athena redefines ultra-high performance digital signal processing. While leading DSP processors execute tens to hundreds of millions of multiply-accumulates (MACs) per second, TeraFire engines are capable of sustained execution of over one trillion 16-bit MACs--a huge leap forward in computational performance--without the exponential increase in power. This improved "Performance Density," approximately 100 Billion MACs/Watt, is characteristic of Athena's proprietary arithmetic technology.

Athena's mission is to become the leading provider of licensed IP for the secure products, wireless, wired, and consumer SoC markets. The low power consumption and high-performance of TeraFire give Athena's customers a competitive advantage in the design of these complex SoC devices for next generation secure communications, wireless communications, and multimedia solutions. In addition to application-level solutions, Athena also produces a full line of fundamental DSP functions suitable for SoC integration.

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