TriMedia Races Ahead with Media Processing Core

By Susan Hospod
iApplianceWeb
(11/28/01, 09:26:50 AM EDT)

TriMedia Technologies introduced the industry's fastest .13u media processor today at the Western 2001 Show in Anaheim, California. The company's latest embedded media processing core, the TM32-A, is based on TSMC's .13u low-voltage process and operates at 250MHz (worst case) and 350MHz (typical). With the ability to perform greater than 7 Giga-Operations-Per-Second and at an area of 10 square millimeters, TriMedia's TM32-A provides the media-processing horsepower and form factor needed in next-generation digital consumer products and interactive video games.

TriMedia's proven IP is designed for seamless integration into SoC (system-on-chip) products and supports standard real-time operating systems (RTOS). TriMedia's VLIW architecture is ideally suited for performance-hungry media processing tasks, such as coding/decoding MPEG video streams in real-time, coding/decoding multi-channel audio streams, or multiplexing/demultiplexing broadcast transport streams.

Design teams developing next-generation consumer products (such as personal video recorders, set-top boxes with interactive games, HDTV, and SOHO wired and wireless networks) can incorporate the TM32-A into their SoC designs to create end products that process multiple MPEG streams, which is difficult for current .18u technology. The standards-based TM32-A is built on mature VLIW technology and its IP database is compatible with most standard EDA tools. The processor is also supported with a complete line of TriMedia software applications and development tools.

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