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| Magnum Semiconductor's DX8110 Professional H.264 SD/HD Encoder Magnum Semiconductor has announced the DX8110 Professional Encode solution, the first member of the company's sixth-generation DX1 family of video encoder products. The DX8110 H.264 encoder provides a scalable platform for full-featured broadcast solutions for IPTV and satellite encoder applications. The DX1 family of chips is based on the Magnum Domino[X] media processor architecture, a flexible and scalable multi-core design for standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) encoding. The DX8110 provides a rich set of pre-processing capabilities including motion-compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) and content-adaptive deblocking, resulting in superior noise reduction for crisper images. Many professional encoders in the market today are derived from consumer market solutions. They often sacrifice key features that would benefit the more demanding broadcast applications. Magnum has taken the opposite approach with the DX8110, driving the most comprehensive set of high and main profile H.264 tools. A typical HD encoding solution based on the DX8110 provides up to 1 trillion operations per second (1 TeraOPS) of calculating power for motion estimation and video DSP processing, a performance level unmatched in the industry. Capable of both single- and multi-pass encoding, the Domino[X] scalable architecture enables sophisticated statistical multiplexing (statmux) and look-ahead functions to drive ever-deeper compression for significantly lower video bitrates. Magnum offers a complete development package for the DX8110, including the Nova multichip reference board for a typical HD encoding solution, and the DX8110 standard software package, to assist customers in achieving time-to-market goals. Source code licensing is available for select customers. The DX8110 is part of the DX1 encoder product family that also includes the DX8112 MPEG2 HD/SD encoder. The DX8110 is packaged in a 35x35mm 680-pin BGA package. It is available now for samples and production deliveries. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |