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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: Digital media processors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 04 June 2004
Digital media processors empower
portable players
Two new portable media player/recorder reference designs from leading third-party partners are based on TI's family of DSP-based digital media processors.
Two new portable media player/recorder reference designs from leading third-party partners are based on TI's family of DSP-based digital media processors The new designs meet the scheduling demands of OEMs and offer unparalleled performance for a wide range of portable multimedia applications, including portable video recorders, audio/video jukeboxes and solid state video cameras
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The two reference designs from Federal Technologies (Fedtec) and Ingenient Technologies are hard disk drive-based (HDD) designs, which provide the hardware and software foundation developers need to bring fully functional portable media players and recorders to market quickly.
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"As the leaders in this market, we continue to produce technologies that drive the future of portable media jukeboxes, enabling new features to be added while making the products easier to use", says Chris Schairbaum, Worldwide Business Manager of TI's Portable Audio and Infotainment business unit.
"Working with Fedtec and Ingenient, we are able to help OEMs begin development within days of deciding to launch a portable media player".
The MP4900-BRD-DM320-20 hardware reference design from Ingenient runs Embedded Linux or Ingenient's own optimised Microkernel with Ingenient's Multimedia Framework software, including application software and customisable graphical user interface (GUI).
The reference design can decode either half-D1 resolution Windows Media Video 9 (WMV) or CIF resolution H.264 at 30 frames per second, and can encode high quality full D1 resolution MPEG-4 at 30 frames per second.
The FPMC320 ready-to-manufacture Portable Multimedia Centre reference design from Fedtec runs the FedLinux operating system, with drivers, system and application software and a customisable GUI.
It can encode and decode full D1 resolution MPEG-4 at 30 frames per second apart from all popular audio, video, image and speech codecs.
Fedtec, in collaboration with its third-party manufacturers, also would sell customised portable media players/recorders to OEMs, per their specifications as an original design manufacturer.
Both reference designs are available now and offer the complete hardware and software needed to create high-quality consumer portable multimedia players, including the operating system, all popular multimedia algorithms, system code and documentation.
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