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Alma Technologies Announces Availability of a New Ultra High Throughput JPEG Decoder IP Core
ATHENS, Greece, June 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Alma Technologies S.A., a semiconductor IP provider, today announced the immediate
availability of a new Ultra High Throughput JPEG decoder IP Core, completing its UHT(TM)
JPEG compression family of IPs. This new UHT JPEG decoder IP, paired with Alma
Technologies UHT JPEG encoder, offers massive pixel rates with very low end-to-end latency
in video transmission systems using constrained bandwidth channels. The low complexity of
this solution enables 4K/8K resolutions and high frame rates using highly cost-effective
FPGA or ASIC technologies.
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http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150619/224308 )
The key advantage of using JPEG compression is the simplicity of the resulting
implementation, which keeps system costs to a minimum even when multiple parallel
processing engines are used to speed-up processing. JPEG is capable of visually lossless
compression in low compression ratios, while retaining a very good image quality up to
medium compression ratios. In addition, the Constant Bitrate feature of the Alma
Technologies UHT JPEG encoder, permits minimal memory buffering in the decoder side,
enabling sub-frame latency in a live video system with compression, transmission and
decompression. Applications such as video surveillance, operating remote machinery over
video feedback, ultra high speed video recording and playback, or upgrading an available
transmission channel from Full HD to Ultra HD video, can benefit from using the UHT JPEG
encoder - decoder technology.
The UHT-JPEG-D [https://www.alma-technologies.com/ip-core.UHT-JPEG-D ] IP is based on
a multiple internal processing engine - scalable parallel architecture. In a similar way
to the UHT JPEG encoder, the input JPEG stream is split into chunks allocated to each of
the decoding engines. This is done in a way which is totally transparent to the system
utilizing the IP, abstracting all the parallelization complexity from the rest SoC
components. The number of the available internal decoding engines is configurable, ergo
the performance and the footprint of the design are scaled according to the application
requirements. Rates up to 32 MSamples/MHz are possible by the UHT-JPEG-D architecture,
enabling ultra high throughput even in low-cost FPGA devices.
The UHT JPEG decoder is strictly compliant to the ITU T.81 and ISO/IEC 10918-1
specifications. It supports 4:4:4, 4:2:2, 4:2:0 and 4:0:0 chroma sampling formats, in 8,
10 or 12 bits per component sample depth. The core uses a single compressed data input
interface - accepting the standard compliant JPEG byte stream generated by the UHT-JPEG-E
[https://www.alma-technologies.com/ip-core.UHT-JPEG-E ] IP core - and produces the decoded
raw video data in interleaved raster scan format. Its operation is completely standalone,
without needing any host processing power. The decoder can be implemented using only
on-chip memory resources, while using off-chip memory is also natively supported.
Alma Technologies IPs are designed to ensure a fast and trouble-free integration in
any FPGA or ASIC design. They are available either as standalone, high quality and
implementation technology independent VHDL or Verilog RTL, or as optimized Netlists for
Altera, Lattice, Microsemi and Xilinx FPGA and SoC devices.
About Alma Technologies
Alma Technologies is a semiconductor IP provider, developing high quality IP cores
since 2001. Its products stand out for their engineering, being complete, easy-to-use and
reliable IP solutions. Best-in-class technical support and a long track record of proven
designs by more than 200 licensees provide Alma Technologies customers with the best
service and value. Learn more at: http://www.alma-technologies.com
[https://www.alma-technologies.com ].
UHT is a trademark of Alma Technologies.
All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
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http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150619/224308
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Alma Technologies S.A.
CONTACT: Contact: Vassilis Spiliotopoulos, media@alma-tech.com, +30 210 6039 850 ext.107
Alma Technologies Announces Availability of a New Ultra High Throughput JPEG Decoder IP Core
ATHENS, Greece, June 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Alma Technologies S.A., a semiconductor IP provider, today announced the immediate
availability of a new Ultra High Throughput JPEG decoder IP Core, completing its UHT(TM)
JPEG compression family of IPs. This new UHT JPEG decoder IP, paired with Alma
Technologies UHT JPEG encoder, offers massive pixel rates with very low end-to-end latency
in video transmission systems using constrained bandwidth channels. The low complexity of
this solution enables 4K/8K resolutions and high frame rates using highly cost-effective
FPGA or ASIC technologies.
(Photo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150619/224308 )
The key advantage of using JPEG compression is the simplicity of the resulting
implementation, which keeps system costs to a minimum even when multiple parallel
processing engines are used to speed-up processing. JPEG is capable of visually lossless
compression in low compression ratios, while retaining a very good image quality up to
medium compression ratios. In addition, the Constant Bitrate feature of the Alma
Technologies UHT JPEG encoder, permits minimal memory buffering in the decoder side,
enabling sub-frame latency in a live video system with compression, transmission and
decompression. Applications such as video surveillance, operating remote machinery over
video feedback, ultra high speed video recording and playback, or upgrading an available
transmission channel from Full HD to Ultra HD video, can benefit from using the UHT JPEG
encoder - decoder technology.
The UHT-JPEG-D [https://www.alma-technologies.com/ip-core.UHT-JPEG-D ] IP is based on
a multiple internal processing engine - scalable parallel architecture. In a similar way
to the UHT JPEG encoder, the input JPEG stream is split into chunks allocated to each of
the decoding engines. This is done in a way which is totally transparent to the system
utilizing the IP, abstracting all the parallelization complexity from the rest SoC
components. The number of the available internal decoding engines is configurable, ergo
the performance and the footprint of the design are scaled according to the application
requirements. Rates up to 32 MSamples/MHz are possible by the UHT-JPEG-D architecture,
enabling ultra high throughput even in low-cost FPGA devices.
The UHT JPEG decoder is strictly compliant to the ITU T.81 and ISO/IEC 10918-1
specifications. It supports 4:4:4, 4:2:2, 4:2:0 and 4:0:0 chroma sampling formats, in 8,
10 or 12 bits per component sample depth. The core uses a single compressed data input
interface - accepting the standard compliant JPEG byte stream generated by the UHT-JPEG-E
[https://www.alma-technologies.com/ip-core.UHT-JPEG-E ] IP core - and produces the decoded
raw video data in interleaved raster scan format. Its operation is completely standalone,
without needing any host processing power. The decoder can be implemented using only
on-chip memory resources, while using off-chip memory is also natively supported.
Alma Technologies IPs are designed to ensure a fast and trouble-free integration in
any FPGA or ASIC design. They are available either as standalone, high quality and
implementation technology independent VHDL or Verilog RTL, or as optimized Netlists for
Altera, Lattice, Microsemi and Xilinx FPGA and SoC devices.
About Alma Technologies
Alma Technologies is a semiconductor IP provider, developing high quality IP cores
since 2001. Its products stand out for their engineering, being complete, easy-to-use and
reliable IP solutions. Best-in-class technical support and a long track record of proven
designs by more than 200 licensees provide Alma Technologies customers with the best
service and value. Learn more at: http://www.alma-technologies.com
[https://www.alma-technologies.com ].
UHT is a trademark of Alma Technologies.
All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
Photo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150619/224308
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150619/224308
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Alma Technologies S.A.
CONTACT: Contact: Vassilis Spiliotopoulos, media@alma-tech.com, +30 210 6039 850 ext.107