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News Release from: Analog Devices | Subject: Blackfin ADSP-BF561
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 January 2006
Processor powers collaboration phone
convergence
Be Here Corporation is using Analog Devices' Blackfin as a critical processor for its collaboration phone solutions integrating video, audio and data into one device.
Be Here Corporation, a venture-funded firm introducing VoIP (voice-over-IP) collaboration phones that deliver a new paradigm for multi-location meetings, is using Analog Devices' Blackfin as a critical processor for its collaboration phone solutions integrating video, audio and data into one device Be Here's product, which comprises a tabletop conferencing device and client software that runs on individual PCs, empowers each and every user in a meeting to control what they see, hear and share at any moment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Addressing such convergent-processing challenges has helped establish Blackfin as the processor of choice for networked multimedia designs.
Seeking a low-cost, high-performance signal processor for full-motion video, audio, and data conferencing for its streamlined device, Be Here selected the Blackfin ADSP-BF561 processor from Analog Devices.
The ADSP-BF561 - with two high performance Blackfin cores, flexible cache architecture, enhanced DMA subsystem, and dynamic power management (DPM) functionality, all in a single chip - processes multiple instruction sets and powers the collaboration phone's video and audio compression tasks, including its patented 360-degree optics and imaging capabilities.
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"Be Here delivers solutions that will change the way enterprises meet to do business by providing a device that allows each individual user to get what they need out of every meeting", said Ed Burfine, Chief Marketing Officer, Be Here Corporation.
"To deliver ingenuity and advanced capabilities in a competitive environment, Be Here wanted a partner, not just a silicon component vendor".
"Analog Devices sold us on its expertise in video and VoIP, and backed it up with a very cost-competitive product - Blackfin".
"Using Blackfin, we can extend the benefits of VoIP to the millions of conference tables going unserved today".
Be Here uses Blackfin's enhanced instruction set to port the H.263 and H.264 video compression codecs and G.711, G.723 and G.279 audio algorithms.
The processor also integrates a general-purpose set of peripherals, including two parallel input/output peripheral interface (PPI) units that support ITU-R 656 video and a glueless interface to analogue front-end ADCs, two dual-channel, full duplex synchronous serial ports supporting eight stereo I2S channels, dual 16-channel DMA controllers and one internal memory DMA controller.
"Analog Devices' knowledge of networked media and the integration of hardware and software necessary for those complex solutions is unmatched, with hundreds of successful end-applications on the market today", said Mike Haidar, General Manager, Software and Systems Technology, Analog Devices.
"It's natural that ADI components and expertise would be included in Be Here's drive to introduce a world-class communication device for conference tables across the globe".
"We're pleased to be part of the Be Here products that are delivering on exactly what enterprise employees say they want in a personalised rich media business meeting experience".
"As this trend toward converged solutions continues to accelerate, Blackfin will be at the forefront, not only in networked media, but also in home entertainment, car telematics, digital radio and mobile television".
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