Awox Enables Manufacturers to Quickly Deliver Digital Media Solutions Based on Texas Instruments’ WLAN and DaVinci™ Technology.

Montpellier, France
Mar. 1, 2006

Awox, a leader in the home networking market, today announced it will enable manufacturers to deliver best-in-class, high performance digital media solutions as a member of the Texas Instruments (TI) DSP Third Party Network.

Awox has built a roadmap of products within a long-term collaborative framework such as UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) middleware and plug-in applications that take full advantage of TI’s TMS320DM644x processors based on DaVinci technology and TI’s ultra low power TNETD1350A WiFi module, which addresses the requirements of the home networking market. This cooperative strategy between TI and Awox ensures manufacturers have access to turn-key solutions and get to market quickly with innovative digital media solutions.

“Thanks to the overall acceptance of digital formats, such as MP3, DVD and TNT, as well as high-speed Internet, WiFi and mass storage, a fundamental transformation of digital convergence has occurred in entertainment content broadcasting and in consumer electronics markets,” said Robert Rodenbucher, director of business development at Awox. “Awox is proud to be part of the TI developer community and is ready to share its know-how and experience with other developers at the TI Developer Conference this week.”

“TI’s third party network provides our customers access to the systems expertise provided by leading companies in their respective markets,” said Ben Sheppard, Customer and Partner Marketing Manager for TI’s Residential Gateway and Embedded Systems Group. “As an early collaborator to support TI’s latest WiFi-enabled consumer embedded solution, Awox has proven to be very responsive to our customers’ needs and delivers the middleware architecture and digital media solutions reference platform to help them quickly deliver differentiated products.”

As an early adopter of TI’s DaVinci technology powering its DLNA-compliant Digital Media Adapter platform, Awox will demonstrate its TI-based solution at TIDC this week in Dallas.

TIDC features the latest in high-performance digital signal processing, high-performance analog and microcontroller system designs. TI CEO Rich Templeton will be joined by industry leaders, embedded designers, engineers, project managers, educators and other TI executives from around the world for the conference, held from February 28 - March 2, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas, Texas.

For more information, visit www.ti.com/tidc2006.


About AwoX

Awox is the European leader in the development of middleware technologies for aggregation of digital content on home networks. Aggregation of content enables users to share their music or movies stored on their computer or set top boxes in digital format (MP3, DIVX…) with their audiovisual devices anywhere within the home. Various members of the family can share the same multimedia file simultaneously, in different places, and totally independently.

AWOX patented modular software platform supports a wide range of integrated multimedia products. The company's core business is developing software and electronic products for license to OEMs, operators and consumer electronics manufacturers, based on UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standards. AwoX's modular architecture helps manufacturers to rapidly add network functionality by adapting AwoX's hardware reference design, customizing AwoX's internationalized user interface, and developing new plug-ins. Awox also uses its own technologies to develop innovative electronic products for the consumer market.

With headquarters in Montpellier, France and operations in Paris and Singapore, AwoX can be contacted on the World Wide Web at http://www.awox.com.