SPIRIT DSP and RMI Corporation have signed a Partnership and Platform License Agreement to deliver high quality voice and video over IP for RMI’s Alchemy Processor family, an advanced MIPS-compatible processor solution.

According to the agreement, SPIRIT licensed to RMI its award-winning TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine bringing high quality wideband real-time voice and video to the next generation electronics based on RMI’s highly integrated SoC, starting with the Alchemy Au1250, a power-optimized single-chip media processor. TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine is a comprehensive pre-integrated solution with flexible architecture framework which includes a library of highly optimized speech and video codecs, voice and video synchronization tools, speech enhancement algorithms for superior voice quality and network optimizing functionality to handle varying delay (jitter) and packet loss. TeamSpirit is optimized to minimize CPU load and memory consumption, allowing OEMs to lower BOM-costs and to deliver video-enabled products at mass-market price. This partnership enables SPIRIT and RMI to deliver a complete video communication solution for vendors of Mobile Internet Devices, portable media players, personal navigation devices, home media players and other audio/video applications, based on MIPS processor core.

SPIRIT and RMI are consolidating their experience for the booming category of products in the home networking and consumer market - Digital Multimedia, Home Media Players and Photo Frames. Adding rich IP-communications Multimedia and Photo Frames are going to be the hype at the electronic devices marketplace (according to IDC forecast, worldwide shipment of digital photo frames and home media players are expected to reach 42.3 million units in 2011 from 2.8 million units in 2006). SPIRIT technologies will bring the highest possible voice and video quality for the RMI Alchemy Processor family that will include added functionality of peer-to-peer content sharing and communication (streaming IP radio and video content, VoIP and video calls) to Multimedia devices and Digital Photo Frame/Home Media Players.