Date: 19/04/2010

New DaVinci processor from TI supports full HD video

Texas Instruments' new TMS320DM368 video processor from its DaVinci processor family supports full HD 1080p H.264 encoding. The DM368 is suggested for video-based applications such as HD video cameras, real-time digital video recorders (DVRs), HD video communications systems and digital signage. The ARM926EJ-S core inside this device performs faster by 40% due to offloading of video encode/decode functions to the integrated HD video accelerators.
The DM368 supports video formats such as VC1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MJPEG and H.264 up to 1080p at 30 frames per second (fps) encoding. Multi-format decode, multi-rate multi-stream and HD multi-channel are also supported. TI is providing audio, speech and other HD video codecs such as MP3, WMA, AAC LC, G.711, acoustic echo canceller, H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 JPEG, and VC1/WMV9 for this DM368. DM368 is pin-to-pin and software compatible with TI's TMS320DM365 DaVinci video processor.

The on-chip peripherals available include EMAC, USB 2.0 Phy, 16-bit DDR2, 16 KHz voice codec, real time clock and three 10-bit DACs.

Price: $29 each for 1K pieces

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