Parsippany, New Jersey-based Dialogic Corp, which established the Signal Computing System Architecture as a proposed standard for building open signal processor-based systems a couple of years ago, and won the support of Spectron Microsystems Inc, Santa Barabara developer and proponent of the SPOX signal processing operating system, has now decided to buy Spectron. It has a letter of intent to acquire the privately-held company in a share exchange on undisclosed terms. Dialogic provides open standards-based hardware and software components for multi-user computer-integrated telephony applications; as well as SPOX, Spectron provides development environments for signal processors and multimedia and communication processing on the Pentium processor. SPOX enables signal processors to be used to process digitally the analogue media in a phone call – speech play and record, data modem and facsimile signals, speech synthesis and recognition, video. Dialogic says that if the deal goes through, Spectron will maintain its focus on its traditional embedded and multimedia markets, but will get additional resources to support open software environments for multimedia processing more energetically. Dialogic will continue the development of Spectron’s technology, including the SPOX operating system, which is designed to be processor-independent. It currently supports signal processors from suppliers including Texas Instruments Inc, Motorola Inc and Analog Devices Inc. WinSPOX is a Windows implementation of SPOX for multimedia; Spectron and Intel Corp developed WinSPOX-compatible Intel Architecture SPOX, IA-SPOX, to support Intel’s Native Signal Processing initiative for Pentium.
