JPEG2000 Codecs available

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jun 30, 2006

Kane Computing (KCL) is now supplying BroadMotion's JPEG2000 compression/decompression (codec) technology

Kane Computing (KCL) is now supplying BroadMotion's JPEG2000 compression/decompression (codec) technology for a hardware platform that combines an Altera CycloneT II FPGA and Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320DM64xT DSP-based digital media processor.

"Supporting the Altera FPGA platform was a logical move for us," said Jeff Brooks, president of BroadMotion.

"JPEG2000 implementations require a high performance hardware platform and the combination of a TI DM64x digital media processor and Altera's Cyclone II FPGA provides the right mix of performance and price for many customers".

"We are excited about having BroadMotion as a partner for its JPEG2000 technology".

"BroadMotion's codecs have now been optimized for our low cost Cyclone II FPGA family" said Brian Jentz, senior DSP marketing manager for Altera.

"BroadMotion was able to speed development of their FPGA+DSP implementation using Altera's Cyclone II DSP kit and TI EMIF reference design".

"We continue to see JPEG2000 performance demands that require use of a DSP and FPGA environment", said Michael Sharpless, Western Region Third Party business development manager, TI.

"Having BroadMotion's technology optimized on TI's DM64x and Altera platform is a key step in meeting this demand".

"TI's Third Party Programme continues to innovate by bringing the right partners together to meet customer requirements".

JPEG2000 is the next-generation ISO (International Organization for Standardisation) still image and video compression standard.

In July 2005 it was adopted by the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) as the format for the storage and distribution of major motion pictures.

JPEG2000 addresses several weaknesses inherent in existing video formats by improving visual fidelity at high compression rates, increasing error resiliency in wireless network environments and providing efficient lossy and lossless coding in one single source file.