CoreEL Technologies Creates Broadcast & Professional Video Grade H.264 High Profile Decoder Solution

BANGALORE / SAN JOSE -- April 20, 2009 -- CoreEL Technologies, one of India’s leading  FPGA IP & Design Services Company, today announced the availability of the H.264 High Profile Decoder IP solution on Xilinx® Virtex® FPGAs, targeted for Professional decoder & Broadcast infrastructure markets.  With a maximum resolution support of 1920x1080 (FullHD) at 60 frames per second, the IP introduces a new level of performance and functionality. The H.264 HP decoder supports 4:2:0, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 chroma formats with programmable bit depth from 8-bit to 12-bits.

The decoder brings further speed improvements to achieve simultaneous multiple stream decode with resolutions up to 1920x1080 interlaced and progressive, easily decoding full HD at optimal frame-rates at only 125 MHz clock frequency with CABAC / CAVLC running at 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps respectively. The IP is capable of supporting both H.264 Intra only frame decoding as well as Inter frames (IPB) decoding. The solution is fully validated in hardware with ITU-T and Franhoufer test streams. The decoder solution is currently being licensed to one of the leading OEMs in professional decoder/ broadcast market.

Ben Runyan, Sr. Manager for Broadcast Marketing at Xilinx said “With their expertise in FPGA development and knowledge of Xilinx FPGAs, CoreEl has delivered an H.264 decoder solution which meets the stringent high performance requirements of Broadcast and Professional decoder customers. We are already seeing acceptance of  their solution with our key customers.”

"Combining our expertise in FPGA Design as well as in Video technologies, we have developed H.264 MP and HP Decoder IP solution with compelling features and performance to drive the high end broadcast & professional infrastructure markets," says Vishwanath Padur, Vice President, sales and marketing at CoreEL Technologies.

CoreEL H.264 High & Main Profile IPs are now available for licensing. The decoder runs on Xilinx Virtex®-5 FPGAs and comes with Verilog source code / netlist, a test bench, test data and complete technical documentation. For further information please contact CoreEL

About CoreEL

CoreEL Technologies, headquartered in Bangalore, India, is a Design Services Company focused on FPGA, Embedded hardware, Firmware and PCB design services. The company operates through its network of offices and representatives around the world. CoreEL’s customers include tier 1 and 2 product manufacturing companies and are distributed across U.S., Europe, Japan and Asia. For more information visit http://www.coreel.com

About Xilinx

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