Fast JPEG Encoder Core from CAST Used in Fastec TS3 High-Speed Camera
Woodcliff Lake, NJ, March 6, 2012 — Fastec Imaging Corporation has incorporated a JPEG Encoder IP Core from CAST, Inc. in its groundbreaking TS3™ line of handheld, high-speed digital cameras.
Sourced from long-time CAST partner Alma Technologies SA, the JPEG-E Encoder Core is one of the fastest-available baseline JPEG compression cores. This enables extremely competitive functionality for Fastec’s TS3 high-speed digital cameras, including capture of 1280 x 1024 pixel images at 500 frames per second, or 800 x 600 at 1,250 fps.
"The quality of the core plus CAST's determination to see us succeed were both instrumental in bringing our groundbreaking handheld high-speed camera, the TS3, to market on time and on spec.,” said Bob Sefton, principal FPGA design engineer at Fastec. “The JPEG encoder's features and excellent performance were as specified, and the system integration was so easy I didn't need CAST's technical support services.”
The encoder core supports the Baseline Sequential DCT mode of the JPEG standard and is suitable for still-image or motion-JPEG capture. This third-generation core offers very fast JPEG compression—up to 750 MSamples/sec in a 65nm technology—yet is compact enough to fit low-cost FPGA devices. A bit-rate control option further benefits bandwidth-limited applications.
“We envisioned demanding customer applications like Fastec’s when designing the JPEG encoder,” said Spyros Theoharis, vice president of products and technology at Alma Technologies. “It’s exciting to see yet another customer release of such a remarkable product using our technology and CAST’s support.”
The JPEG-E core is part of a comprehensive family of image and video IP cores offered by CAST. Learn more by calling +1 201.391.8300 or visiting www.cast-inc.com.
|
CAST, Inc. Hot IP
Related News
- CAST JPEG 2000 Encoder Core Provides Fast, Flexible Image Compression
- Socionext starts providing high-speed, high-quality H.264 video encoder available on Amazon Web Services
- Mars Photos from Curiosity Compressed On Demand Using JPEG Encoder IP Core in MSSS Camera System
- Shikino Launches Still Image Encoder IP Obtaining High-speed Image Processing in 16X speed (16 data/clock)
- Shikino Initiative to Commence Licensing of New High-speed JPEG Codec IP to Obtain Ultra-high Definition Images
Breaking News
- GlobalFoundries and NXP to Deliver Next-Generation 22FDX Solutions for Automotive, IoT and Smart Mobile
- Celestial AI Acquires Rockley Photonics Patent Portfolio, Strengthening Photonic Fabric IP
- Silicon IP Provider, Chips&Media Unveils New Multi Video Codec IP, WAVE6 Gen2+
- M31 Once Again Ranked Among Forbes' "Asia 200 Best Under a Billion" List
- DeepComputing and Andes Technology Partner to Develop the World's First RISC-V AI PC with 7nm QiLai SoC, Featuring Ubuntu Desktop
Most Popular
- YorChip announces Low Latency 200G Chiplet for edge AI
- Alphawave Semi Q3 2024 Trading and Business Update
- RISC-V Announces Ratification of the RVA23 Profile Standard
- Arteris and SiFive Deliver Pre-verified Solution for the Datacenter Market
- MosChip Technologies joins Renesas RZ Partner Ecosystem as AI/ML Design Partner
E-mail This Article | Printer-Friendly Page |