Tower Semiconductor has launched production of a Coder-Decoder (CODEC) integrated circuit (IC) for Smart Link, Ltd., a leading developer and supplier of modem solutions for the communications industry.

The video compression coder-decoder increases the video compression performance up to 20 percent for faster frame rates with low bandwidth consumption.

But in this case, the analog voice-channel input had to be converted to digital form, a job performed by a codec (coder-decoder), which has the same generic function as a modern (modulatsor-demodulator), but in the other direction.