| Vivace Semiconductor was founded in October 2005 to create and deliver new secure video processing chips to address the needs of next generation consumer electronic products. Through a combination of a customized processors, highly optimized firmware and silicon proven IP, Vivace is creating highly efficient chips that address the difficult requirements of media processing. The chips support multiple video compression standards including H264/MPEG4 AVC, MPEG4 ASP, Windows Media 9, MPEG2 and VC-1 and multiple encryption standards including AES, DES, 3-DES and DVB CSA. Our chips target the emerging growth markets in portable video players and integrated digital TV platforms (LCD, Plasma). Vivace's chips are supported by an integrated software development environment that supports programming on multiple, heterogeneous on-chip processors. |
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Cary Ussery
President & CEO, Founder
Vivace Semiconductor
Cary has a strong, successful engineering and management background. He has worked in a government contractor (Intermetrics, Inc.), a startup company (Vantage Analysis Systems subsequently purchased by Viewlogic Systems), and an established EDA software company (Cadence Design Systems). He is a founder and President & CEO of Improv Systems, Inc., a startup company delivering configurable DSP processor IP for multimedia and communications chips. Prior to Improv Systems, Cary was the Group Director of Core Technology for Cadence Alta Business Unit, which included system specification, language processing, system simulation and high-level synthesis. He has managed teams of up to 75 engineers and has broad experience in new product development and managing existing product lines with revenues of up to $80 million. He has written numerous papers and is co-author of the textbook "VHDL: Hardware Description and Design." He received a BA in Music and a BA in Math from Bard College. |
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