Easing broadcast and digital cinema development, Texas Instruments unveils industry's first real-time JPEG 2000 HD solution on multicore DSP

LAS VEGAS, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NAB -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today unveiled the industry's first implementation of the real-time HD JPEG 2000 codec on a multicore digital signal processor (DSP). Four TI TMS320C6678 multicore DSPs with JPEG 2000 codecs are available on TI's design network member, Advantech's, new DSPC-8681E half-length PCI express card, making it ideal for processing intensive, power efficient applications in industries such as broadcast and digital cinema. JPEG 2000 is an image compression codec offering significant flexibility and performance increases over previous versions.

With the JPEG 2000 codec running as a real-time application across four TI C6678 DSPs simultaneously, Advantech's low-cost DSPC-8681E video engine can support 2K/4K resolution video encoding/decoding at an extremely low power consumption of 54W. Because TI's C6678 DSP is entirely software based, switching codecs and parameters is seamless for developers, unlike on a FPGA. The flexibility of this new solution allows broadcast and digital cinema developers to more quickly and easily design applications than ever before. In addition, TI has reduced developers' costs by 50 percent, running the JPEG 2000 codec on Advantech's DSPC-8681 platform.

"TI's new codec implementations on Advantech's PCIe-based video engines offer equipment manufacturers the true flexibility that an all software methodology brings to video processing," said David Lin, director DSP solutions, Advantech. "This allows them to deploy leading edge hardware today with product lifecycles significantly extended by software, resulting in a lower total-cost-of-ownership and future-proofed solutions for their customers." To further ease development, TI's C6678 multimedia solution includes a comprehensive portfolio of video codecs, including the real-time JPEG 2000 codec, which will be accessible through TI's website. TI's full portfolio of video codecs also includes the H.264, H.263, MPEG4, MPEG2, JPEG, VC1, Soren Spark encoders and decoders. With an all software approach TI will be able to quickly bring up additional codecs in the future such as AVC Intra and H.265 on the C6678 DSP.

TI's C6678 multimedia solution is also ideal for applications in the video surveillance, medical and mission critical industries.

Availability TI's JPEG 2000 HD codec will be available free for download from www.ti.com in June 2012. For more information on the new DSPC-8681E half-length PCI express card, please visit www.advantech.com/.

For more information: Read TI's new C6678 product bulletin Watch TI's Ask The Experts series Engage with engineers and TI experts on the TI E2E(TM) Community and Multicore Mix Follow TI on Twitter Become a fan of TI on Facebook About TI's KeyStone multicore architecture Texas Instruments' KeyStone multicore architecture is the platform for true multicore innovation, offering developers a robust portfolio of high performance, low-power multicore devices. Unleashing breakthrough performance, the KeyStone architecture is the foundation upon which TI's new TMS320C66x DSP generation was developed. KeyStone differs from any other multicore architecture as it has the capacity to provide full processing capability to every core in a multicore device. KeyStone-based devices are optimized for high performance markets including wireless base stations, mission critical, test and automation, medical imaging and high performance computing. Learn more at www.ti.com/multicore.

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