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News Release from: 3DLabs Semiconductor | Subject: DMS-02
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 November 2006
Handheld media processor raises
resolution
Fabless semiconductor company 3DLabs has announced its entry into the handheld media processor market with the launch of the DMS-02.
Fabless semiconductor company 3DLabs has announced its entry into the handheld media processor market with the launch of the DMS-02 Based on a multicore architecture including a fully programmable array of floating-point processors, it is the first handheld digital media silicon capable of HD 720p H.264 video playback
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The pool of processing elements is equally adept at performing video, image, audio, 2D/3D graphics and signal processing tasks and provides the flexibility to adapt to emerging standards and applications, including software GPS, software defined radio, digital media broadcast and physics processing for game engines.
A full suite of hardware and software development tools, codecs and APIs, including H.264, MP3, AAC, JPEG and OpenGL ES ensure fast time to market for OEMs designing next-generation consumer products across a range of fast growing markets, including; portable digital entertainment, portable navigation, video conferencing, automotive infotainment, video surveillance and high-end mobile handsets.
"Our engineering teams were asked to deliver a breakthrough in handheld media processing and the DMS-02 shows we have achieved just that", said Hock Leow, President of 3DLabs.
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"The ability to play back a full 720p resolution H.264 video on your HDTV from a portable device consuming less than 1W is an incredible achievement".
"Combine that with rendering 3D navigation at 30 frame/s, capturing and encoding H.264 video at D1 and performing 4.8 GFLOPS of compute and you have a real testament to the architecture".
"We believe this architecture has the ability to scale and address the rich digital media content that consumers are constantly demanding in low powered mobile devices".
The DMS-02 incorporates 24 floating-point processing elements, dual ARM 926EJ cores, multi-level caches, three bidirectional video stream ports, 32 or 64bit mobile memory for up to 1.6Gbyte/s bandwidth and peripheral interfaces to LCDs, CMOS sensors, IDE disks, USB OTG, Flash memory and audio DACs.
The device is OS independent with the first software development kits supporting embedded Linux 2.6.
The DMS-02 is available now for customer evaluation and is priced at $40 in 1000-unit quantities.
The DMS-02 is the first implementation of the 3DLabs DMS architecture, which scales from mobile handsets to broadcast quality set-top systems.
"Entertainment companies, game developers, operators and device makers alike should embrace the DMS-02 for its ability to render HD content on mobile devices while maintaining battery life", said Richard Doherty, Research Director for The Envisioneering Group.
"3DLabs appears to have rolled high performance video, 3D graphics, flexibility and low power into an efficient, highly reconfigurable chip".
"The complete developer tools will also accelerate the market adoption of this chip".
"With the DMS-02 we are delivering staggering levels of performance, flexibility and competitiveness on an array running at 100MHz, which is great for low power but also gives us incredible scalability in terms of performance and capabilities as we migrate to different process nodes", said Tim Lewis, Sales and Marketing Director of 3DLabs.
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