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News Release from: Kane Computing | Subject: Vitec Multimedia VP3T
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 January 2004
Multimedia board puts eight DSPs in
parallel
The VP3T video parallel programmable processing platform is an extremely powerful PCI or stand-alone board dedicated to professional and industrial video applications.
Kane Computing has an all-new high-performance video/audio multi-DSP board following the signing of a UK distribution agreement with manufacturer Vitec Multimedia The new VP3T video parallel programmable processing platform is an extremely powerful PCI or stand-alone board dedicated to professional and industrial video applications, such as H.264/MPEG4 real time, top quality encoders and decoders, high definition MPEG2 encoders/decoders, MPEG2 to H.264 transcoders and real-time industrial image processing
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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VP3 includes eight Texas Instruments TMS320DM642 digital media processors, SDI digital video inputs and outputs, AES/EBU digital video inputs and outputs, audio and video synchronisation circuits, configurable topology, efficient interprocessor communications, hardware coprocessor, TCP/IP stack/Ethernet interface and PCI interface.
The eight DM642 processors provide a maximum of 153.6 GOPS and each has a private local memory of 128Mbyte of 100MHz SDRAM.
The video ports (three per processor) are used for interprocessor communications and are configured using a crossbar implemented in an FPGA to provide a highly flexible topology, ie pipeline, parallel scheme or a mixture of both.
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The DSPs can also communicate information to each other using direct memory to memory block exchanges using high performance multicasting DMA controller services (patents pending).
VP3 comes with a complete set of software tools including LiveWire, a complete framework for developers who want to use VP3 hardware to develop a product running under Windows, providing a set of ready to use, connectable components leading to a drastic reduction in development time.
Other software tools include Windows WDM driver, to support multiboard applications in the same PC and DSP sample applications with source code.
Vitec Multimedia, a French company, has been providing leading edge digital video products and technology, since 1988, to professionals in the broadcast industry, with a focus on MPEG1, MPEG2 and MPEG4 encoders.
Vitec is also a Texas Instruments Third Party Partner.
Bruno Teissier, International Sales Director of Vitec Multimedia said: "We at Vitec Multimedia think this is a good opportunity to work together because Kane is well specialised in DSPs".
Kane Computing is a Texas Instruments Third Party Partner, specialising in Texas Instruments software development tools and emulators, and can supply and support developers with everything they need for DSP development.
Richard White, Managing Director of Kane Computing confirmed his delight with this new partnership, particularly as Kane Computing also licenses a range of image compression algorithms specifically optimised for the DM642 processor from Texas Instruments. Request a free brochure from Kane Computing ...
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