Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: H.26L on TMS320C64x
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 13 March 2002
All the new videos run on DSP
H.26L, the emerging video coding draft standard from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), is now available on the TMS320C64x DSP family from Texas Instruments
With third-party partners, UB Video and Ingenient Technologies, TI is the first to deliver this new video coding technology designed for video telephony, video conferencing and streaming media applications. The H.26L video coding on the C64x DSP family offers excellent picture quality, very high code efficiency, low processing delay and error resilience to packet loss and bit errors.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 March 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The H.26L/C64x offering enables video and imaging OEMs to get high-quality products to market faster while the draft standard is being finalised.
With TI's fully programmable and software upgradeable C64x family of DSPs, any changes made to the H.26L standard can be addressed in software, without any expense of hardware redesign.
Video coding technology includes on average 35% bitrate savings over ISO MPEG-4 video and higher quality video at a variety of bitrates.
Additionally, the H.26L codec offers improved network connectivity and ease of use, and provides additional flexibility in handling image delay.
For consumers, H.26L offers near VHS-quality digital video, improving the viewing experience of the video function on fixed and portable devices.
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'The implementation of H.26L on TI's C64x DSP family enables video and imaging customers to develop high-quality, fully upgradeable products', said Vishal Markandey, Distinguished Member Technical Staff, TI DSP Video and Imaging.
'This new offering demonstrates the C64x platform's flexibility to manage evolving video standards and formats'.
As with several emerging standards, TI has dedicated research and development resources toward H.26L and participates in its standardisation both as an MPEG delegate and as an ITU-T member.
TI has made technical contributions to several parts of the H.26L standard, including entropy coding, transform and quantisation, intra prediction and multiple frame prediction.
Using 0.13-micron copper process technology, TI reckons its C64x DSP core combines the highest performance and lowest power consumption of any available DSP on the market today.
The C64x DSP family currently operates at up to 600MHz, delivering significant performance in advanced video and imaging applications.
The C64x family is also fully programmable and software upgradeable.
'The C64x represents an ideal and powerful platform on which to develop our H.26L based video processing solution', said Dr Faouzi Kossentini, president and CEO, UB Video.
'The high-performance and functionality of this DSP family allowed UB Video to develop the world's first H.26L based real-time video encoding/decoding software for TV-resolution video'.
'Our implementation of H.26L will take full advantage of the C64x's special features', said Sami Levi, president and CEO, Ingenient Technologies.
'By leveraging algorithm optimisations that have already achieved market-winning, high-performance MPEG video solutions for TI DSPs, Ingenient will utilise the powerful new H.26L coding tools on the C64x for maximum coding gains at minimum complexity.
TI's robust platform is an excellent selection for H.26L, offering the highest performance and lowest power consumption of any DSP available on the market'.
C64x DSPs are supported by TI's eXpressDSP real-time software technology, including the Code Composer Studio v2 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the industry's most sophisticated DSP IDE and the DSP/BIOS real-time kernel.
TI's library of DSP and imaging software modules, best-in-class software development tools and eXpressDSP-compliant products from the DSP industry's largest third party network all add up to faster time to market for the designers of video and imaging applications.
TI and UB Video will demonstrate the H.26L implementation on the C64x DSP based development platform at the 2002 Embedded Systems Conference, 13th-15th March 2002, in Booth 502S.
The conference will be held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
Other evaluation tools, including TI's C6000 imaging developer kit (IDK) and the C6416 test and evaluation board (TEB), are available now from TI's authorised distributors.
UB Video's H.26L/C64x products are scheduled to be available in late second quarter of 2002.
Ingenient Technologies plans to roll out H.26L technology-based products on the C64x DSP family and TI's digital media platform for portable devices in the third quarter of 2002.
Upgrades to the software will also be available as the standard evolves in the market.
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