Wave Issue 2001 1/10/00 Article 7-01

***Cellport Selects Lucent's Hands-Free Cellular Phone Chip
Targeting Automobiles and Telematics Markets
(January 3)

Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group announced a chip set
for hands-free cellular phone products that helps eliminate the
need for manually dialing cellular phone numbers while driving.
The chip set also enables drivers using cellular phones to be
heard more clearly without the need to speak loudly into their
phones, and frees them to turn up the volume on their cell phones
to hear more clearly. The announcement is being made during this
week's Consumer Electronics Show.

Boulder, Colorado-based CellPort Systems will use Lucent's
digital Signal processor (DSP)-based chip set in the company's
universal hands-free system, scheduled to be introduced by
CellPort in the first quarter. The Telematics Communications
Group of Motorola will use the chip set in its hands-free phone
systems slated for use in Motorola's embedded telematics systems,
which they expect to be available by 2001.

Targeted for use in the range of hands-free markets, including
automotive telematics, embedded cell phone hands-free kits, and
completely portable hands-free kits, Lucent's DSP operates at 100
million instructions per second. On a single DSP chip, Lucent can
simultaneously enable voice recognition; hands-free, full-duplex
speakerphone functions including adaptive acoustic echo
cancellation, line echo cancellation, and noise suppression;
simultaneous voice and data; and voice memo recording functions.
Because of its DSP horsepower, Lucent reduces the chips typically
required for such functions from three to one, thereby reducing
overall circuit board and component costs for its customers.

The Advanced Communications Technology Center of Bell Labs
developed several software algorithms for the Lucent DSP
offering. The algorithms were fine-tuned for the hands-free
application, tapping Bell Labs' extensive experience in speech,
audio, and other communications technologies.

There is worldwide momentum driving the hands-free cellular phone
market. Twenty countries, including England, Australia and
Brazil, currently have laws requiring use of hands-free cellular
phones in automobiles; Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, and 11 other
U.S. states have introduced legislation to implement hands-free
cellular phone laws. Brooklyn, Ohio has already passed a local
hands-free law.

Lucent's offering consists of the DSP1627 and DSP1629, both of
which operate at 100 MIPS and 2.7 volts. The DSP1627 has 32
kilowords of Read Only Memory (ROM) and 6 kilowords of Random
Access Memory (RAM). The DSP1629 has 48 kilowords of ROM and 16
kilowords of RAM on chip. A complementary part of the offering is
Lucent's CSP1027 coder/decoder (codec) chip.

Lucent's complete chip set solutions, based on both the DSP1627
and DSP1629, are now available in sample quantities, and in high
volumes in the first quarter of 2000. The DSP1629-based chip set
is priced under $17 in quantities of 100,000, with a feature rich
complement of software functionality and two linear codecs.

Both chips can be used in the various global wireless standards
including Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications, Code
Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access,
and Advanced Mobile Phone System.