Simple Profile Video Decoder

The Diamond Standard 381VDO Video Engine is customized for multi-standard, multi-resolution video in SOC designs. Targeted at mobile handsets and personal media players (PMPs), the Diamond Standard 381VDO supports the following video standards:

• H.264 decode - Baseline Profile @ D1, 5 mbps, 30fps
• MPEG-4 decode - Simple Profile @ D1, 6 mbps, 30fps
• VC-1/WMV9 decode - Simple Profile @ D1, 6 mbps, 30fps
• MPEG-2 decode - Main Profile @ D1, 6 mbps, 30fps

Resolutions up to 720x480 (NTSC) and 720x576 (PAL) are supported, as are lower resolutions including QCIF, QVGA, CIF and VGA.

Tensilica supplies both the hardware (in RTL) and the software decoders for the Diamond Standard 381VDO video engine. Tensilica also provides a complete matching software development tool-chain including an advanced integrated development environment based on the ECLIPSE framework, a world-class compiler, a cycle-accurate SystemC-compatible instruction set simulator, and the full industry standard GNU toolchain. In addition, Tensilica's wide partner network provides operating systems, debug probes, ICE solutions, and other support needed to help get Tensilica's video engines and processores designed in quickly.

Features

• Multi-standard video decoder engine
• Fully programmable to support most video decoder algorithms
• Very low power, low area
• Full matching software tool chain
• C-level system model available for evaluation with video test streams and for software development
• FPGA prototype available for demonstration and evaluation

Benefits

• Fast time-to-market for applications requiring digital video support
• Low power and small area footprint is ideal for portable applications
• Single video engine supports many codecs, reduces hardware overhead compared to separate hard-wired hardware blocks for each codec
• Programmable engine can support new future codec implementations
• Pre-packaged, ready to drop-in module for easy integration into SOC designs
• Uses custom instructions for better code density and fewer cycles

Turnkey Video for SOC Designs

The Diamond Standard Video Engines host all the key video processing functions in software on the cores - including the network abstraction layer, slice layer, bit-stream parsing and entropy decoding and encoding.

An Advanced Architecture Optimized for Video

Please click here for more information on the architecture behind the Diamond Standard VDO processors.

See the Diamond Standard 38X VDO family product brief.