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. National Semiconductor's CompactRISC architecture combines power, programmability and flexibility enabling telephony designers to quickly incorporate the entire DECT standard into their base designs and/or to add extended features for market differentiation.