Product category: Reference Designs
News Release from: Micronas USA | Subject: MicRacerT1D-X
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 6 June 2006
Decoder design is ready for Blu-ray
MicRacerT1D-X is billed as the world's first PCI Express H.264/VC-1 decoder reference design for the PC market
Micronas has launched MicRacerT1D-X, the world's first PCI Express H.264/VC-1 decoder reference design for the PC market. The solution allows OEMs to affordably offer H.264/AVC and VC-1 content consumption on desktop computers. Micronas is leveraging its expertise and innovation into new markets emerging through the digitisation of audio and video content.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 June 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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'By pairing our unique expertise in advanced video decoding and PCI Express, we've created an approach that extends the reach of home entertainment into the family PC by achieving the price and quality deltas needed to bring H.264 and VC-1 adoption on a standard PC into the mainstream', said Kai Scheffer, Director, Media Home at Micronas.
'Consumers will continue to demand ever-increasing resolution levels that don't consume their storage reserves'.
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'This solution supports the newest compression standards to meet those requirements'.
The H.264/AVC and VC-1 compression standard supported by MicRacer 1D-X is quickly becoming the norm for delivering video at resolutions up to six times greater than conventional DVDs.
It has been adopted by both the DVD Forum for HD-DVDs and the Blu-ray Disc Association for Blu-ray DVDs.
All PC displays are high-definition ready, but until now only PCs with high-end graphics cards or quad CPUs could decode the HD content.
The design of the MicRacer 1D-X board allows it to handle the entire H.264 or VC-1 decode process in hardware so that it does not tax the system's CPU or require a special graphics adapter.
In addition, MicRacer 1D-X consumes considerably less power and enables the low-noise operation that is essential to any device operating in a living room environment.
OEMs will be able to integrate this capability at more than fifty% less than the cost of using high-performance CPUs or GPUs with H.264 acceleration.
MicRacer 1D-X PCI Express capability is provided by Micronas APB 7202A nGene multimedia controller.
The controller sources H.264 or VC-1 streams via the PCI Express bus and supplies them to Micronas DeCypher 8100 Streaming Media Decoder for H.264 hardware decode.
The DeCypher 8100, a high definition streaming media decoder, supports full decode of H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 streams.
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