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News Release from: Imagination Technologies | Subject: PowerVR MSVDX
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 November 2005
HD-video core supports many decode
standards
The PowerVR MSVDX HD-video core is available now from Imagination Technologies.
The PowerVR MSVDX HD-video core is available now from Imagination Technologies PowerVR MSVDX is a multi-standard high definition video decoder core enabling HD-DVD/Blu-ray decode and HD-broadcast reception with maximised video-quality
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The decoder supports the wide range of decode standards including: H.264 (to High Profile), WMV9 (to Main profile), VC1 (to Advanced profile), MPEG-2 (Main profile), MPEG-4 (to Advanced simple profile), DivX (Certified) and JPEG.
MSVDX can be configured with any subset of these standards, enabling effective management of codec royalty costs.
According to David McBrien, VP Business Development, Imagination Technologies: "PowerVR MSVDX goes from video stream reception, through decode, to produce the final picture without the requirement for any processing workload on the host processor other than frame buffer management and basic housekeeping".
"With the broadest range of supported standards, a small silicon area and comprehensive supporting IP for image enhancement or HDTV baseband MSVDX is the prime choice for HDTV silicon devices".
Imagination Technologies provides a comprehensive range of HDTV image technologies.
Its display IP includes scalable display pipelines supporting PIP, overlay, advanced de-interlacing and image enhancement enabled by IP including the PowerVR TVE digital TV encoder, the PowerVR PDP pixel display pipeline family and the PowerVR IEP image enhancement processor.
MSVDX can be combined with Imagination Technologies' encode IP to create a highly integrated and effective HD-codec solution.
PowerVR MSVDX is also suitable for handheld video devices, such as personal media players, where its advanced block and register level clock gating implementation and small silicon area ensure low power consumption.
The design has been optimised to further reduce power by enhancing the ratio of the design that can benefit from register level clock gating.
Advanced error recovery is enabled with logic to increase resilience to errors on reception of a corrupted bit-stream.
A microcontroller within the stream manager enables high level error recovery while low level activity monitors quickly detect and lock up error conditions.
The PowerVR MSVDX design is available as a soft IP macro coded in VHDL with full documentation, Synopsys Design Compiler scripts and VHDL simulation test benches.
The core is synthesisable at a minimum of 150MHz in a 0.13um process.
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