National Semiconductor, founded in 1959, is one of the world's leading suppliers of high technology integrated circuits. National focuses primarily on three major market segments: Home, Wireless and Enterprise electronics. National chips are at the heart of systems such as local and wide area networks, telephones, cellular phones, pagers, TVs, DVDs, set-top boxes, medical equipment, desktop, portable and thin-client computers, and thousands of other types of electronic devices. National is using its analog expertise as a leading developer of products for Information Appliances - the fast growing category of electronics that access the Internet without a computer.
National Semiconductor's CompactRISC architecture was created from the ground up as an alternative solution to CISC and other accumulator based architectures.
DECT is an open standard, widely used throughout Europe and Asia for consumer-oriented, cost-driven, cordless telephone communications. The use of a 16-bit CompactRISC core, combined with a baseband transceiver module and on-chip specialized DSP, provides a complete 'system on a chip' that can be readily used in DECT handsets throughout the world. The CompactRISC architecture's combination of power, programmability and flexibility enable telephony designers to quickly incorporate the entire DECT standard into their base designs and / or to add extended features for market differentiation.