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News Release from: Surf Communication Solutions | Subject: Multimedia processing platforms
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 February 2008
Processing platforms upgrade to six-core
DSP
Surf has integrated TI's DSP into its advanced mezzanine card (AMC), PCI Express card and chip-level solution to support the development of multimedia gateways and servers.
Surf Communication Solutions is leveraging Texas Instruments' high performance TNETV3020 six-core digital signal processor (DSP) to promote the development of open architecture, multimedia processing solutions for telecomms applications Surf has integrated TI's DSP into its advanced mezzanine card (AMC), PCI Express card and chip-level solution to support the development of multimedia gateways and servers that deliver video, voice, fax and modem over mobile and wireline networks
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The combined solution offers impressive processing performance for video codecs, such as H.264, alongside a large amount of voice channel instances.
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"The low power consumption, small footprint and exceptional processing performance of TI's TNETV3020 provide telecomms equipment manufacturers with the highest performance/density ratio available", says Ofer Talmor, Product Marketing Manager at Surf Communication Solutions.
"This makes the TNETV3020 DSP on Surf's multimedia processing platforms the most optimised solution for development of voice and video telecom applications".
"The fact that customers can choose to use the TNETV3020 DSP-based solution within Surf's cards or as chip-level provides plenty of opportunities to build heavy duty media processing products using the best available building blocks".
Both the SurfRider/AMC mezzanine card and the SurfExpress/PCIe board feature a modular plug-in that carries up to four pairs of DSPs.
The resulting eight multicore DSPs per board delivers unprecedented price performance, ideal for converged distribution of video and voice for a wide variety of telecom applications, including voice and video gateways, MMSC content adaptation engines and multimedia servers.
"The advanced set of communication peripherals in the TNETV3020, like Telecom Serial Interface Ports (TSIP) and Gigabit Ethernet, along with the outstanding processing performance and low power consumption per channel, make it the ideal platform for TDM and IP-based systems", says John Smrstik, Manager of TI's High Density Core Networks Group.
"Coupled with Surf's ability to process video, voice, and data simultaneously, this combined solution will reduce time to market for OEMs building fixed and mobile media gateways, and transcoding applications".
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