Date: 13/09/2010

New JPEG 2000 IP cores from Barco

Barco has introduced new JPEG 2000 IP core. Barco says that this core performs at sub-frame latency while preserving the high quality of single-tile images. The new core enables cumulated latency delay to encode and decode an image is less than one frame and a total delay of 10 milliseconds in HD applications.

"Within the image processing industry, everybody is looking for ways to reduce the latency of its system, but some applications just can't afford the delay introduced by usual codec solutions," says Thierry Pauwels, Application Engineer at Barco Silex. "We are therefore excited to present these new IP cores, as they offer a unique solution to maintain the high quality of single-tile JPEG 2000 images with sub-frame latency."

The JPEG 2000 IP cores are based on a portable and flexible architecture that can be tuned to the specific needs of each application. The low-latency solution supports major vendors of FPGA platforms to provide customers with the most appropriate single-chip solution.

The new IP cores from Barco are suitable for other markets that require low-latency codecs, such as surveillance, medical or other industrial applications.