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| 3DLABS' Handheld Media Processor Capable of HD H.264 Playback 3DLABS announces its entry into the handheld media processor market with the launch of the DMS-02. Based on a multi-core architecture including a fully programmable array of floating-point processors, it is the first handheld digital media silicon capable of HD 720p H.264 video playback. The pool of processing elements is equally adept at performing video, image, audio, 2D/3D graphics and signal processing tasks and provides the flexibility to adapt to emerging standards and applications, including software GPS, software defined radio, digital media broadcast and physics processing for game engines. A full suite of hardware and software development tools, CODECs and APIs, including H.264, MP3, AAC, JPEG and OpenGL ES ensure fast time-to-market for OEMs designing next-generation consumer products across a range of fast growing markets, including: portable digital entertainment, portable navigation, video conferencing, automotive infotainment, video surveillance and high-end mobile handsets. The DMS-02 incorporates 24 floating-point processing elements, dual ARM 926EJ cores, multi-level caches, three bi-directional video stream ports, 32 or 64-bit mobile memory for up to 1.6 GBytes/s bandwidth and peripheral interfaces to LCDs, CMOS sensors, IDE disks, USB OTG, Flash memory and Audio DACs. The device is OS independent with the first Software Development Kits supporting embedded Linux 2.6. The DMS-02 is the first implementation of the 3DLABS DMS architecture, which scales from mobile handsets to broadcast quality set-top systems. Key Performance Figures: - High-Definition H.264 720p decode - H.264 D1 encode at 30 fps - 4.8 GFLOPS - 19,200 MIPs - 200M pixels/s, 8M vertices/s - 1.6 GBytes/s memory bandwidth. Key Features: - A low-power array architecture which is ideally suited to the parallel nature of media processing tasks - Fully programmable to handle a wide range of tasks with the flexibility to adapt to emerging standards and applications - Rich set of media processing CODECs, APIs and Libraries including H.264, MPEG2, Microsoft WMA and WMV, MP3, AAC, OpenGL ES and Image capture - Powerful integer, IEEE 32-bit and 16-bit floating-point processing - Multi-tasking which enables the array to be switched between multiple tasks to combine the flexibility of a CPU with the compute density of SIMD parallelism - Dual ARM 9 cores at 200MHz for low-power, industry standard application processing - Advanced power management; clock and voltage scaling, clock gating and a low power real-time clock - Interfaces to external peripherals for reduced complexity and system cost - Rich suite of hardware and software development tools - GUI Toolkit, high speed media synchronisation and DRM. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |