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Adaptive Digital Technologies is pleased to introduce Snowbot (TM) 1.0. Snowbot isn’t much to look at, but it packs plenty of Digital Signal Processing horsepower. The first its kind, Snowbot’s senses are driven by eight Texas Instruments TMS320C6000 series Digital Signal Processors (DSP) chips. Two DSPs at the top of Snowbot’s face handle the vision and five DSPs formed in an arc at the bottom of Snowbot’s face handle audio and speech. And within the the eighth DSP, positioned in the center of the Snowbot’s face, Adaptive Digital introduces Olfactory Signal Processing or OSP, which provides the snowbot with its sense of smell.

OSP is a field of study that is still in its infancy, but Adaptive Digital expects it to become as ubiquitous as the telephone within the coming decade as companies roll out the Smelliphone. The current state of the art is limited to the ability to identify smells by analyzing chemical makeup. But the smelliphone will be able to transmit information about the chemical makeup, along with voice and video information, across a Voice Over IP (VoIP) channel to the other party on a smelliphone call. The smelliphone on that end will recreate the smell by synthesizing the appropriate chemical compound.

The eight DSP chips provide a combined processing power of 4.8 GHz and can execute 38.4 billion operations per second. This is far greater than the capability of a typical desktop PC. But as we all know, a PC’s electronics require much power and hence dissipate so much heat that the PC requires a fan to keep it cool. The TI DSPs draw so little power and run so cold that they can be placed on Snowbot’s face without affecting its crystalline structure.

A Snowbot kit will be available in the 2010 holiday season. Using the kit, children and adults alike will be able to build their own snowbots. Availability will be limited to winter months in cooler climates.

Snowbot is a trademark of Adaptive Digital Technologies, Inc.

Happy Holidays!
Your friends at Adaptive Digital (ADT)

About Adaptive Digital Technologies (http://www.adaptivedigital.com)

Adaptive Digital continues to meet and exceed the current and future requirements of service providers, equipment manufacturers, system integrators and developers by bringing superior voice quality to speech-based applications. Adaptive Digitals highly optimized DSP Algorithms/Solutions include network, line, and acoustic echo cancellation, high-density conferencing, speech compression, telephony, and voice quality algorithms. Recognized internationally for its quality software, Adaptive Digitals customers include British Telecom, Cisco Systems Inc., Cantata Technology, Digium, General Dynamics, Motorola, Northrop Grumman, Sonus, and Texas Instruments.

Adaptive Digital is a member of the Texas Instruments Third Party Developer Network and is located in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA).