MIPS Technologies and Sarnoff have announced that Sarnoff will offer its latest H.264 codecs on the industry-standard MIPS architecture, allowing MIPS Technologies to offer its customers a broad range of video solutions.
This offering enables mobile TVs, cell phones, VoIP terminals, and other portable media devices using the MIPS architecture to encode, decode, and display high-resolution, full-motion video for television, teleconferences, movies, camcorder features, music videos and other business and entertainment applications.
The codecs, part of Sarnoff's line of SelectCores silicon IP, can accommodate video at up to 30fps and up to VGA resolution (640x480). They are compatible with the ITU H.264 and MPEG-4/AVC standards. Included hardware-based accelerators may be implemented for maximum flexibility. Software-only codecs are also available, optimized for the MIPS instruction set.
Sarnoff's H.264 silicon IP draws low power for long battery life. By choosing which of the hardware-based accelerators are implemented, users can optimize the cost/power tradeoffs to the specific device being designed and customized device performance.