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How Video Compression Works By Jeff Bier, 8/15/2007 Digital video compression/decompression algorithms (codecs) are at the heart of many modern video products, from DVD players to multimedia jukeboxes to video-capable cell phones. In this article, we explain the operation and characteristics of video codecs and the demands codecs make on processors. (More)

Tensilica Offers High-Performance Licensable Video Engine By BDTI, 7/18/2007 Tensilica has announced 388VDO, a high-performance “Diamond Standard” core. The 388VDO offers the highest performance among Tensilica’s four new dual-core video engines, which support multiple video standards including H.264 and MPEG-4. The 388VDO is also the only VDO core that supports MPEG-4 ASP encoding. (More)

ARM’s Cortex-A8 Armed for DSP, Multimedia By BDTI, 5/16/2007 BDTI has released independent benchmark results for the Cortex-A8, ARM’s highest-performance processor core, on the BDTI DSP Kernel Benchmarks™  and the BDTI Video Encoder and Decoder Benchmarks™. The results indicate that the Cortex-A8 is significantly faster than its predecessor, the ARM1176, giving it considerable horsepower for its targeted applications. (More)

Plurality's Hypercore Joins the Multi-Core Fray By BDTI, 5/16/2007 There’s no shortage of startups with massively parallel processor architectures targeting high-performance signal processing applications, but Plurality isn’t discouraged. The company recently introduced a new multi-core architecture, Hypercore, that can support from 16 to 256 RISC processors on a single chip. Plurality is betting that its patented “synchronizer/scheduler” hardware will make Hypercore stand out from the crowd. (More)

Jeff Bier’s Impulse Response – As Signal Processing Workloads Evolve, So Must Processors By Jeff Bier, 5/16/2007 Historically, DSP processors have been the default choice for signal processing applications because they could efficiently process classical signal processing functions like FIR filters and FFTs. But those capabilities aren’t enough any more. (More)

Case Study: Custom Benchmarks for Emerging Applications By BDTI, 5/16/2007 Looking beyond today’s established high-volume applications, processor and SoC vendors often seek growth in promising emerging applications. In entering any new market, vendors face two key challenges: First, they must ensure that their product is competitive. (More)

CEVA Unveils “Lite” Mobile Multimedia Platform By BDTI, 4/25/2007 In March CEVA unveiled “Mobile-Media-Lite” (MMLite), a family of multimedia solutions comprising licensable silicon IP and software. The family is aimed at low-end multimedia-enabled devices such as mobile TV players, portable multimedia players, and multimedia phones. CEVA also announced the first family member, the MM2200, a single-processor multimedia platform. (More)

Xilinx Spartan gets DSP By BDTI, 4/25/2007 In recent years, FPGA vendors have been aggressively pursuing high-performance signal processing applications. This month Xilinx broadened its target DSP markets by announcing a new lower-cost DSP-oriented FPGA family, Spartan-3A DSP. (More)

Stretch Announces Second-generation Software Configurable Processor By BDTI, 3/14/2007 On March 5, Stretch, Inc. announced its second-generation software configurable processor family, the S6000, and two initial chips. The S6000, like the previous-generation S5000 family, features a RISC processor core with a reconfigurable compute fabric embedded within the processor datapath. (More)

BDTI Evaluates TI’s DaVinci Evaluation Module By BDTI, 3/14/2007 Last month, BDTI published a white paper detailing the results of its evaluation of Texas Instruments’ Digital Video Evaluation Module (DVEVM). The DVEVM is one component of TI’s “DaVinci” digital video platform, which also includes video-oriented chips, off-the-shelf multimedia codec software, development tools, and APIs. (More)

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