Aspex Took Great Advancement in HD Video Compression Technology

Published:2011/11/24 20:56:00 Author:Phyllis From:SeekIC

Aspex Semiconductor, a provider of video compression technology for next-generation HD video-enabled devices, has won the 2011 Low Power Green Design Award from the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI). NMI is the trade association representing the UK Semiconductor, Microelectronics and Electronic Systems Communities.

Aspex won this honor because of its advancements in HD video compression technology enabled by its fully programmable architecture, specifically the implementation of proprietary techniques in a high performance chip for professional video applications. The use of novel low power design techniques and the overall efficiency of Aspex’s technology implementation allow it to operate at 30% of the power required by traditional approaches.

Advanced video compression techniques that operate at both low power and support the highest resolution video are critical as consumers increasingly want to access their entertainment content across multiple screens and devices, from smartphones and portable media players to second TVs, games consoles, PCs, and laptops. As each of these devices and networks supports different screen resolutions, bitrates, and video formats, video needs to be transcoded, a hugely complex computational task, and one that requires software-programmable silicon to support existing and future technologies.

Power delivery, limiting power (and heat) dissipation and managing heat removal is a major concern across all video applications. In this case, the award-winning design was conceived to allow significant improvements in video processing performance and quality in video sub-systems within a system rack environment, while reducing the overall energy requirements and thereby reducing the heat removal burden.

Aspex addresses a solution that provides massively parallel computational capabilities combined with a fully-programmable approach that allows scalability and efficient customization and upgrades as requirements change. The technology can be implemented in a much more energy-efficient, smaller form factor, and lower cost solution than previous approaches to high-end video compression, such as FPGAs.

About Aspex

Aspex is a Fabless Semiconductor company that specialises in technology for encoding/compression of HD video. The company offers a complete route to silicon for customers requiring the highest video quality, support for multiple standard codecs and the most flexible user-programming environment. Founded in 1999, Aspex specialises in the development of software programmable media processors, based around its ASProCore DSP fabric. Headquarted in the UK, Aspex’s Engineering team includes system architects, SoC designers, embedded software developers, and video compression algorithm specialists. Aspex’s products are supported by a range of development tools, libraries, reference designs, training and support services to help our customers get to market.

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