HD video codec companion solution

Features

• Companion solution
• Smallest silicon footprint
• Highest integration flexibility
• Flexible load balancing with host CPU
• Multi-standard video codecs
• H.264/AVC, MVC
• MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, H.263, Flash (Sorenson)
• WMV-9/VC-1, RealVideo 8/9/10
• Google VP8 / WebM Project, On2 VP6
• MPEG-2, MPEG-1, JPEG
• Extensible to further standards on same silicon, e.g., H.265/HEVC
• Video encoding, decoding, codec, transcoding
• Extended image/video processing features
• Image enhancements, rotation, scaling
• Graphic overlays, blending, picture in picture
• Deinterlacing, denoising, deblocking
• Color conversion (RGB/YUV, YUV/RGB)
• Error robustness
• Customer-specific extensions
• Very small silicon area footprint
• 196kgates core logic + 84kB memories
• Target technologies: 90nm…22nm
• 0.79mm2 silicon area in 40nm technology incl. synch. bus interface & all memories
• Very low power consumption
• Only 10mW for H.264 BP 720p@30fps decoding in 40nm technology
• Very low clock frequency requirements for advanced video functions
• Easy system integration
• Seamless integration with industry standard system CPUs: ARM, MIPS, custom CPU
• SoC bus interface options: 32/64 bit, synchronous/asynchronous interfaces
• AMBA AHB, AXI, OCP, others
• Short time to market & future proofness
• Reliable core, pre-verified in silicon
• Various FPGA prototyping platforms supported
• Field-upgradeable features and codecs by firmware download
• Complete solution
• Comprehensive applications suite, fully optimized for performance and resource usage
• Fully documented API in C source code for codecs and features
• Example integration in application framework
• One-stop offer including full integration support options

Benefits

• Highest flexibility companion solution
• Works with any host CPU
• Very small area footprint
• Ultra low power
• Enhanced image/video processing feature support
• Field-upgradeable codecs and features

Applications

• Voice & Video over IP
• High quality video conferencing
• Car infotainment
• Streaming video
• Camcorder, DSC
• Portable media player

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