Equator Announces Starfish Hardware Platform for Linux-based, Multi-format Video-over-IP Appliances.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 2004 Sub-$80 BOM cost and production ready - Starfish cuts cost and development time for volume deployment Equator Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance, programmable and power-efficient system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors for video streaming See streaming video and video stream. and image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished applications, today announced the immediate availability of Starfish(TM) - a new embedded hardware platform designed for rapid deployment of low-cost and Linux-based, multi-format video-over-IP appliances. Target applications for the multi-format Starfish hardware platform include: IP set top boxes, video streaming appliances, digital media players, personal video recorders (PVR See DVR. ) with extra long recording, DVD jukeboxes and digital media adaptor products for sharing media between PCs and TVs. The Starfish hardware platform features a low-cost, single BSP BSP Bromsulphalein, a dye used in the study of liver function. See also sulfobromophthalein clearance test. (TM)-15 processor chip that handles all system and media functions. Equator's BSP-15 SoC processor runs Linux and system software natively while delivering high-performance audio and video processing Video processing techniques are used in video codecs, video players and other devices. For example—commonly only design and video processing is different in TV sets of different manufactures. . The BSP-15's advanced processor architecture, strong optimizing compilers and on-chip MMU (Memory Management Unit) The part of the computer that governs memory access. Either part of the CPU chip or housed on separate chips, the MMU controls memory partitions and virtual memory. See memory and virtual memory. MMU - Memory Management Unit support full-featured Linux with memory protection, making multi-threaded complex application software more robust. The BSP-15 is 100 percent C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ programmable, providing adopters of the Starfish reference design low development cost and fast time-to-market with advanced functions. Linux-based audio/video applications can be ported to Starfish quickly using Equator's gcc-compatible compiler tools. Starfish's key advantage is Equator's signature multi-format video support, providing digital media appliance support for the industry's widest selection of audio and video formats, including certified Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Media 9 Series at Main Profile. "With the Starfish hardware platform, we spared no effort to reduce our customers' overall system cost to drive consumer adoption and volume production. The result is a compelling platform for rapid-deployment, market-leading, multi-format video over IP appliances," said Frans Sijstermans, vice president of engineering at Equator. "We finalized the hardware design with our manufacturing partner to reduce the ultimate BOM cost and established relationships with our manufacturing partners to pass on all the savings to our customers. With Linux on board, our customers can reduce software cost, as well as reducing their development time by taking advantage of the abundance of Linux applications that are available." Availability The Starfish hardware platform, which is fully supported by the company's iMMediaTools(R) software development toolkit, is available immediately from Equator Technologies, Inc. About Equator Technologies Equator Technologies is a provider of high-performance, programmable and power-efficient system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors for video streaming and image processing applications. Equator offers its proprietary BSP family of chips, iMMediaTools(R) software development toolkit, media libraries and reference platforms to more than 100 customers worldwide. Equator's video-centric SoC solutions are available for digital media, digital video communications and video security and surveillance applications. Founded in 1996, Equator is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Campbell, California Campbell (IPA: /ˈkæmbəl/) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, part of Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area. [2] As of 2007 population estimates, Campbell's population is 39,200. , with additional offices worldwide. More information about Equator is available online at www.equator.com. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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