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| Eutecus Moves Video Analytics into Surveillance Cameras |
By BDTI, 6/18/2008
 Digital video has become a killer app for signal processing technologies, and video analytics—that is, analysis of digital video to identify specific events or characteristics—is quickly becoming a significant driver in digital video. Video analytics isn’t one of those solutions looking for a problem; it has an enormous range of potential applications, both commercial (such as intelligent surveillance and traffic monitoring) and military (such as target detection and tracking).
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| 3DLabs Aims Massively Parallel Chips at Portable Multimedia |
By BDTI, 4/23/2008
 When people talk about massively parallel, multicore chips, they’re usually talking about chips for high-performance line-powered applications, like WiMAX base stations or desktop video processing. But 3DLabs is headed in a different direction. The fabless chip company offers a massively parallel media processor, the DMS-02, which the company says is a perfect fit for portable multimedia devices with demanding video and audio processing requirements—such as high-end cellular handsets and portable media players. According to 3DLabs, the chip is in full production and costs $40 in small (1K) quantities. The company is currently shipping chips to initial customers, including a video surveillance equipment vendor, Grandeye.
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| Hantro 8190 Will Bring YouTube to Cell Phones |
By BDTI, 3/19/2008
 A few months ago, video codec vendor On2 announced its acquisition of Hantro, a company that offers licensable video codec accelerators and software. At the Mobile World Congress in February, On2 unveiled the first offspring from the marriage—the Hantro 8190 licensable silicon IP core.
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| Ambric’s Video Accelerator Card Tackles HD H.264 |
By BDTI, 2/27/2008
 At Macworld last month, Ambric announced that it is using its massively parallel processor architecture as the basis for PC plug-in video accelerator boards. The new video platform is based on Ambric’s AM2045 programmable processor chip and includes off-the-shelf video codec software written by video codec house MainConcept (which was acquired by DivX late last year).
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| Jeff Bier's Impulse Response— How to Make Money in Video IP |
By Jeff Bier, 2/27/2008
Digital video is almost everywhere. And where it isn’t now, it soon will be. As a result, the market for digital video intellectual property components—hardware, software, you name it—is wide open, with lots of opportunities for money-making. And there are roughly five buzillion vendors jockeying for position within a highly fragmented field.
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| Behind the scenes: Dolby’s acquisition of Coding Technologies |
By BDTI, 12/19/2007
 Dolby, based in San Francisco, CA, has acquired audio compression specialist Coding Technologies. Dolby is well-known for its AC-3 audio compression algorithm (also known as Dolby Digital), used worldwide in cinema sound and more recently accepted for audio for digital television in North America. Coding Technologies focuses on audio compression for mobile, digital broadcasting and Internet markets worldwide.
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| TI Launches Low-Cost DaVinci Processor with HD Video Capability |
By BDTI, 9/26/2007
 This month Texas Instruments launched the DM355, the latest chip in its “DaVinci” family. The DM355 supports high-definition MPEG‑4 video encoding and decoding (but not both simultaneously) and is intended for low-cost imaging and video applications such as digital still cameras, IP video cameras, digital photo frames and video baby monitors.
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| ARC Introduces Configurable Video Subsystems |
By BDTI, 8/22/2007
 Adding to its growing portfolio of licensable silicon IP subsystems, ARC has announced five configurable video processing subsystems. The subsystems range from the smallest-size AV 402V to the highest-performance AV 417V, and support multi-standard video encoding and decoding at resolutions ranging from CIF to D1.
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| Jeff Bier's Impulse Response—All Video Apps are Not Alike |
By Jeff Bier, 8/22/2007
Pretty much everyone agrees that digital video has become a killer app for embedded processing engines. But “video” can mean different things to different people; the term encompasses a diverse set of applications with very different requirements. A processor you’d use for video playback in a low-cost cell phone, for example, isn’t going to cut it for an HDTV set and vice versa.
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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.
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