Demonstration of Cell BE for video market

Emonstrations of Cell BE technology for the professional video market will be on display at NAB2007, from 16th to 19th April at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mercury Computer Systems and IPV are to hold demonstrations of Cell BE technology for the professional video market at NAB2007, from 16th to 19th April at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mercury and IPV are collaborating to develop and deliver software tools, libraries, and applications based on the Cell Broadband Engine (BE) processor, developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba for the Sony Playstation 3 video game console and other consumer electronics devices.

Mercury is leading adoption of this powerful multicore processor in non-gaming markets that include, medical imaging, video processing, semiconductor, seismic computation, and ray tracing.

Working with IPV, a provider of video browsing technology since 1997, Mercury is helping to expand IPV's product offering to include advanced codecs and increased metadata creation and processing with Cell Technology.

These offerings are designed to support implementation and advanced performance capabilities for video codec standards such as MPEG4 (H.264).

Demonstrations in both the Mercury and IPV booths will feature order-of- magnitude processing improvement for professional video applications.

The companies will also make available a white paper that explores the benefits of implementing Cell Technology in the broadcast market.

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