China Company Receives Working First Silicon for SingMai's Analogue Video Decoder
January 11, 2017 -- A Chinese integrated circuit design company, who provide professional chip solutions for intelligent cellphone, tablet computer, phablet, TV box, on-board navigation and IoT, has received first-time working silicon of SingMai’s PT5 broadcast quality analogue video decoder.
The requirements of NTSC and PAL video decoding have become ever more demanding. For example large screen displays, with their necessity for de-interlacing, will exacerbate any remaining artefact from an analogue decoder.
And MPEG compressed transmission and recording of analogue video, because the motion estimation cannot discriminate between noise/artefacts from the decoder and true image motion, can waste as much as 20% of the compressed video bandwidth with the video artefacts from a traditional line-comb video decoder.
Analogue SD video can still offer a high quality solution to many video systems, such as CCTV/security, vehicle cameras and remote inspection, as it may be transmitted very long distances with little degradation and allows long recording times, all at considerably lower costs than HD.
The PT5 decoder can produce near HD quality images from a high quality SD source, using proprietary 3D comb filters with integrated video noise reduction. Its artefact free outputs allows the following video processing such as de-interlacing or compression to perform to its maximum, whilst extracting every possible detail from the most demanding images. The required field and frame memories may be shared with subsequent memory on the video SOC, such as display processing or compression.
The PT5 is also compatible with the Sony 960H format allowing even higher resolution images yet maintaining compatibility with legacy NTSC/PAL formats. The PT5 decoder, and its companion PT8 encoder, are compact, affordable and easy to implement IP cores and are field proven with many customers for both FPGA and ASIC platforms.
For further information please contact:
Daniel Ogilvie, SingMai Electronics.
e-mail: daniel@singmai.com Tel: +66-81-7576661.
|
Related News
- SingMai's aCVi decoder successfully tapes out in China
- Ceroma Selects Silicon Image's Multistandard Video Decoder IP Core for Its Full High-Definition Capable DTV Chip
- Allegro DVT Announces the Industry's First MPEG-5 LCEVC Decoder Silicon IP
- Chips&Media Pioneering With The World's First Real-time Multi-Standard Decoder, including AV1, HW IP, WAVE517
- SingMai offer universal encoding and decoding of analogue video
Breaking News
- Logic Design Solutions launches Gen4 NVMe host IP
- ULYSS1, Microcontroller (MCU) for Automotive market, designed by Cortus is available
- M31 is partnering with Taiwan Cooperative Bank to launch an Employee Stock Ownership Trust to strengthen talent retention
- Sondrel announces CEO transition to lead next phase of growth
- JEDEC Publishes LPDDR5 CAMM2 Connector Performance Standard
Most Popular
- Arm's power play will backfire
- Alphawave Semi Selected for AI Innovation Research Grant from UK Government's Advanced Research + Invention Agency
- Secure-IC obtains the first worldwide CAVP Certification of Post-Quantum Cryptography algorithms, tested by SERMA Safety & Security
- Weebit Nano continuing to make progress with potential customers and qualifying its technology Moving closer to finalisation of licensing agreements Q1 FY25 Quarterly Activities Report
- PUFsecurity Collaborate with Arm on PSA Certified RoT Component Level 3 Certification for its Crypto Coprocessor to Provide Robust Security Subsystem Essential for the AIoT era
E-mail This Article | Printer-Friendly Page |