On January 7, 2010, Ubicom announced general availability of turnkey reference designs for several consumer audio products. These turnkey reference designs combine Ubicom's networking expertise with advanced multimedia capabilities of the IP7500 family of 32-bit processors.
The Wi-Fi DLNA Audio Renderer solution by Ubicom provides OEMs and ODMS a turnkey hardware and software solution enabling the quickest time to market for DLNA-compliant wireless audio products. The design is targeted at a wide range of products including wireless Audio clients, iPod docks, speakers, audio players and AV Receivers.
Ubicom's software platform is certified for DLNA 1.5, UPnP, Wi-Fi, WPS and Microsoft's Windows 7 ecosystem.
The Ubicom Internet Audio Player Reference Design enables customers with a hardware and software platform to add internet radio streaming to existing products or development of standalone tabletop internet radio products. Thousands of radio stations and music services such as Pandora are accessible through the reference design user interface. The reference design provides a stable base design to add features for further customization using Ubicom's Linux distribution as well as other open-source code bases.