"As a provider of digital consumer products, Toshiba understands the advantage of using an SoC platform that provides performance, ease-of-integration, time-to-market benefits and true IP reuse," said Jack Browne, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at Sonics. "We look forward to our continued collaboration as Toshiba expands its home entertainment developments around the globe."

First introduced in July 2008, SonicsSX accelerates video performance and eases global integration of IP cores and subsystems onto a single chip. To address increased processing for HD video, SonicsSX offers network-on-chip (NoC) capabilities for higher operating clock frequencies, native support for 2D data transactions and an expanded data bus width to 256 bits. It also contains Sonics' Interleaved Multichannel Technology (IMT), enabling SoC architectures to transition from single to multiple DRAM channels, or multichannel, while automatically balancing the traffic among the channels.

SonicsSX has built-in security features that provide protection for digital media and its low-power circuitry ensures extremely low active power for mobile battery-powered applications.

The SonicsStudio Development Environment supports SonicsSX for SoC architecture and performance analysis. Developers have the advantage of completing data flow analysis during the architecture phase of product development rather than in later stages of product completion. This provides integration with software and shorter overall product development schedules.

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Huntington Memorial Hospital, which uses Toshiba's Aquilion ONE to support its new emergency department, sends many of its non-emergency radiology patients to Huntington Hill for advanced imaging, including cardiac CTA, neuro perfusion and other radiology applications, using the Aquilion Premium. On average, Huntington Hill completes 1,000 CT exams monthly, many of which are performed using the Aquilion Premium.

The Aquilion Premium was designed to not only improve clinical accuracy, but also to make procedures safer and more efficient while increasing patient comfort and operator convenience. It features a 660 lb. patient weight couch to accommodate larger patients; front and (optional) rear table footswitches to facilitate workflow; and a single push button enabling the gantry and couch to return to the home position automatically. It also comes standard with the 72 kW generator and advanced features like iStation display and 8 cm dynamic scanning capability.

"With Huntington Memorial using the Aquilion ONE and Huntington Hill using the Aquilion Premium, the hospital system now has two of the industry's premier systems," said Doug Ryan, senior director, CT Business Unit, Toshiba. "The Aquilion Premium not only meets Huntington Hill's current needs, but is field upgradeable to the Aquilion ONE should their imaging needs change. This gives the medical community access to advanced technology today, while allowing physicians and administrators to plan for their future needs."

About Toshiba's Aquilion CT Product Line Recognition

The Aquilion(R) CT product line has received numerous accolades including the number one ranking in CT from MD Buyline since 2002 (seven consecutive years). The Aquilion CT line has also been named Best in KLAS in the Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards reports for 2006 and 2007 for CT; Best in KLAS in the Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards reports for 2008 and 2009 for 64-detector row and above; and Frost & Sullivan's "Healthcare Innovation Award in Cardiovascular Imaging" in 2008. (For more information about KLAS, visit www.KLASresearch.com.) Most recently, Toshiba's service for the Aquilion line was ranked number one in 21 out of 34 ServiceTrak Imaging's 2008 report on CT system service.

About Huntington Hill Imaging Center

At the Huntington-Hill Imaging Center, our mission is to provide you with services to optimize your health and wellness. The Huntington-Hill Imaging Center is a part of the Hill Medical Corporation, a respected team of caring radiologists, technicians and clerical staff devoted to providing the finest outpatient diagnostic imaging services in the Southern California area.

About Toshiba

With headquarters in Tustin, Calif., Toshiba America Medical Systems markets, sells, distributes and services diagnostic imaging systems, and coordinates clinical diagnostic imaging research for all modalities in the United States. Toshiba Medical Systems Corp., an independent group company of Toshiba Corp., is a global leading provider of diagnostic medical imaging systems and comprehensive medical solutions, such as CT, Cath & EP Labs, X-ray, Ultrasound, MRI and information systems. Toshiba Corp. is a leader in information and communications systems, electronic components, consumer products, and power systems. Toshiba has approximately 198,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of $77 billion. For more information, visit www.medical.toshiba.com.

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According to the company, the latest license represents an extension of Toshiba's adoption of Sonics' technology for its SoC designs. SonicsSX is the company's highest performance product with up to 16GB/s bandwidth per port and is suited for solving the data throughput requirements of powerful video SoCs.

Using the company's technology, Toshiba has designed multiple generations of SoCs for key applications ranging from digital television systems to application processors for cell phones and video game engines.

SonicsSX accelerates video performance and facilitates integration of IP cores and subsystems onto a single chip. To address increased processing for high-quality, high-definition video, it offers network-on-chip (NoC) capabilities for higher operating clock frequencies, native support for 2D data transactions and an expanded data bus width to 256 bits.

The product also contains Sonics' Interleaved Multichannel Technology (IMT), enabling SoC architectures to transition from single to multiple DRAM channels, or multichannel, while balancing the traffic among the channels.

The device has built-in security features that provide protection for digital media and its low-power circuitry ensures low active power for mobile battery-powered applications.

In addition, the company offers the SonicsStudio Development Environment, which supports SonicsSX for quick SoC architecture and performance analysis.

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"As a worldwide leader in digital consumer products, Toshiba understands the advantage of using an SoC platform that provides performance, ease-of-integration, time-to-market benefits and true IP reuse," said Jack Browne, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sonics. "We look forward to our continued collaboration as Toshiba expands its home entertainment innovations around the globe."

First introduced in July 2008, SonicsSX accelerates video performance and eases global integration of IP cores and subsystems onto a single chip. To address increased processing for high-quality, high-definition video, SonicsSX offers network-on-chip (NoC) capabilities for higher operating clock frequencies, native support for 2D data transactions and an expanded data bus width to 256 bits. It also contains Sonics' Interleaved Multichannel Technology (IMT), enabling SoC architectures to transition from single to multiple DRAM channels, or multichannel, while automatically balancing the traffic among the channels.

SonicsSX has built-in security features that provide protection for digital media and its low-power circuitry ensures extremely low active power for mobile battery-powered applications.

The SonicsStudio(TM) Development Environment supports SonicsSX for quick SoC architecture and performance analysis. Developers have the advantage of completing data flow analysis during the architecture phase of product development rather than in later stages of product completion. This provides quicker integration with software and shorter overall product development schedules.

About Sonics

Sonics, Inc. is a pioneer of network-on-chip (NoC) technology and today offers SoC designers the largest portfolio of intelligent, on-chip communications solutions. Sonics' products optimize memory access, seamlessly manage on-chip network traffic, accelerate system performance and reduce power consumption in SoCs with advanced voice, data and video features--including those found in home entertainment, networking, wireless and mobile devices. With a broad array of silicon-proven IP, Sonics helps designers eliminate memory bottlenecks associated with complex, high-speed SoC design, streamline and unify data flows and solve persistent network challenges in embedded systems with multiple cores. As the leading supplier of on-chip communications networks for the embedded market, Sonics has enabled its customers to ship more than 500 million units worldwide. Founded in 1996, Sonics is headquartered in Milpitas, Calif. with offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.sonicsinc.com and www.sonicsinc.com/blog.

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