Backgrounder

VoicePump was founded in 1993 as Analogical Systems, a developer and licensor of embedded, real-time firmware for speech coding and telecom algorithms on a variety of commercial DSP platforms. Analogical’s products were efficient assembly language implementations of the International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications Sector (ITU-T) G, Q, and V series standards.

Analogical Systems also perfomed system integration and custom design services for their OEM customers in satellite communications, wireless, videoconferencing, datacom, telecom, and ultimately VoIP and VoDSL markets.

In March 1999, the company introduced its first complete system-level product: the VoicePump-6000. This integrated DSP reference design provided a “turnkey” DSP solution for high-density H.323 VoIP gateway applications that allowed Voice Gateway manufacturers a quick time-to-market solution, without necessitating any investment in DSP hardware or software engineering.

Analogical Systems changed its name to VoicePump in July 1999, and formally announced a new focus on system-level Voice over Packet, DSP-based embedded products.

In March 2000, DSP Group, Inc., a world-wide leader in the development and marketing of high-performance, cost-effective, licensable DSP cores acquired 70% of VoicePump. The transaction immediately brought together VoicePump’s experience in optimized speech coding and telephony software with DSP Group’s DSP cores and mixed-signal technology. In March, 2001 DSP Group acquired the balance of VoicePump’s shares.

The VP100 family is the first of a series of high-performance, low-cost silicon solutions for VoIP and VoDSL applications integrating VoicePump’s field-proven speech coding and telecom algorithms.