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January 29, 2007
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CENTRALITY AND ATHENA SIGN
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSING AGREEMENT
Gainesville, FL - January
29, 2007 - The Athena Group, Inc. announced today an agreement
to license intellectual property to Centrality Communications,
a leading developer of GPS navigation infotainment processors.
As part of the agreement, Centrality has taken delivery of
Athena's leading signal processing product, a high performance
computation engine from Athena's Atomic™ signal processing
library.
"Athena's customers not
only value the benefits of our technology," says Dr.
Jon Mellott, CTO of Athena, "but they choose Athena because
of the reduced TCO. With our advanced technology and automated
implementation process, we can quickly deliver a customized
implementation, optimized for each user's unique requirements."
Proprietary arithmetic technology
enables remarkable levels of power reduction and area conservation
across Athena's entire family of Atomic signal processing
functions and GPS preprocessors. Though very efficient at
any performance level, Athena's technology easily scales to
extremely high performance, making it ideal for the most challenging
applications - whether that challenge is total performance
or minimum power consumption.
"Centrality requires the
highest performance IP to help deliver leading edge processors
for navigation." says David Wang, Director of Marketing
of Centrality. "Our schedule was very tight, and the
computation engine was a very complex design. Athena was able
to deliver a solution optimized for our requirements in a
matter of weeks."
About The Athena Group,
Inc.
The Athena Group, Inc. of Gainesville, Florida licenses signal
processing technology that delivers breakthrough performance,
reduced area, and reduced power consumption in a broad range
of SoC products. Athena technology is ideal for leading edge
applications such as secure e-commerce, wireless broadband,
and satellite communications.
Athena was founded in 1986
and is privately held. For more information, please visit
www.athena-group.com.
About Centrality Communications
Centrality is a leading developer of semiconductor system
solutions for GPS navigation products. Headquartered in Redwood
City, California, Centrality also has a worldwide presence
with branch offices in Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, and Brussels.
Centrality's Atlas™ and Titan™ family of navigation
processors together deliver the new standard in features and
value for the navigation infotainment systems (NIS) market.
By leveraging Centrality's suite of reference platforms, leading
NIS manufacturers can deliver compelling products and services
to market quickly. For more information, please visit: www.centralitynav.com.
Press Contacts
Dave Wang
Centrality Communications
davewang@centralitycomm.com
Pat Rugg, VP Sales and Marketing
The Athena Group, Inc.
408 W. University Avenue, Suite 306
Gainesville, FL 32601
Phone: (352) 371-2567 ext. 307
Toll-free: (800) 741-7440
Email: prugg@athena-group.com
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