e.Digital licenses both technology platforms and reference products to optimize product development cycles. e.Digital technology platforms bring together customizable chip sets, PCBs, firmware and software for digital products such as audio players and video players. These technologies are fully developed and ready for integration into the next generation of portable digital audio, video and imaging products. e.Digital`s custom design, software, firmware, and hardware platforms allow our customers to take their cutting-edge technology and easily integrate with e.Digital and other 3rd party technologies to create cutting edge portable products.

MicroOS® - Micro Operating System - e.Digital`s proprietary MicroOS® is extremely compact, full-featured and highly customizable embedded operating system designed specifically for portable digital devices. MicroOS® manages data files as well as codecs, integrates security systems for content protection and handles uploading and downloading files to PCs. Important features include:

Power and memory conservation - eliminates the need for a high-powered CPU by paring down all code to run efficiently on a low-cost microcontroller preserving valuable memory for other applications.

Extends Flash memory capabilities - Memory management transparently deals with bad blocks, erase blocks, wear leveling and is independent of data and erase block sizes.

Advanced editing features - insert and delete allows editing of files by inserting material at any point without erasing what follows, and deleting of selected portions of a file without spaces, blanks, or silences being left behind.

MicroOS® is applicable to any product that utilizes flash memory or rotating media as its primary storage medium including:

Voice Recorders

One and two way voice pagers

Digital cameras

Cellular phones

Portable Internet music players

Handheld PCs

Set-top boxes

Kiosks

Patent-pending content encryption technology to secure Hollywood`s `First-Run` content