[April 18, 2013] Texas Instruments announces availability of new pre-production codec for H.265 Tweet Apr 18, 2013 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- Texas Instruments Incorporated, or TI, a semiconductor design and manufacturing company, has announced the availability of a pre-production codec based on the new video encoding standard, H.265. This codec is optimized for TI's TMS320C6678 KeyStone-based multicore digital signal processor (DSP). The H.265 standard has been designed to take advantage of parallel processing, making the C6678 multicore DSP a platform for H.265 implementation via its eight 1.25 GHz DSP cores capable of delivering 320 GMACs and 160 GFLOPs of combined fixed- and floating-point performance. TI's software-based implementation of the H.265 standard offers customers plenty of room to add differentiation in the codec and other pre- and post-processing algorithms. In addition, TI's design provides flexibility in developing video infrastructure equipment such as multimedia gateways, IMS media servers, video conferencing servers and video broadcast equipment, the company said. The performance of the C6678 coupled with TI's tools, software and support help accelerate video infrastructure development. TI's C6678 multimedia solution includes a portfolio of video codecs, including the H.265 codec, which will be accessible through TI's website. TI's full portfolio of video codecs also includes the H.264, H.263, MPEG4, MPEG2, JPEG, JPEG2000, AVC Intra, VC1, Soren Spark encoders and decoders. "The highly-efficient video coding algorithms employed in TI's H.265 codec are optimized for execution on Advantech's DSPC-8681 and DSPC-8682 PCIe cards to help customers accelerate the evolution of their media processing solutions," said David Lin, Senior Director DSP Solutions, Advantech. "Our customers can upgrade their installed base to H.265 with no extra hardware costs while new solutions can be quickly deployed with greater density and lower cost-per-channel." http://www.datamonitor.com Republication or redistribution, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without prior written consent. Datamonitor shall not be liable for errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]