Gennum's VXP(R) Demonstration Showcases First Commercial Solution to Drive 4Kx2K Display.New Reference Design Highlights Consumer Availability Roadmap for 4K Displays ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Continuing to drive innovation in the 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 market, Gennum Corporation (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :GND GND Ground GND GIG (Global Information Grid) Network Defense GND System Ground GND Circuit Reference (Zero) Voltage Level GND St Georges/Grenada, Grenada - Pt Saline (Airport Code) ) showcases the most advanced processing for large screen displays this week at InfoCom 07. Leveraging its popular VXP VXP Visual X Programmer technology, Gennum is demonstrating an image processing solution to drive 4096x2160 pixel (4Kx2K) displays, highlighting the commercial opportunity for displays that provide a dramatically more detailed image than can be realized on current high definition televisions (HDTVs), plasmas, computer screens or digital projection systems. Gennum's new reference design is the first commercially available solution for 4Kx2K applications. "The 4K display has been eagerly anticipated by professional video and industrial display manufacturers for its unprecedented image resolution," said Craig Thompson, director, image processing products for Gennum. "As the movie industry moves to 4K technology, we are definitely seeing a desire to accelerate the commercial availability of this technology. Our VXP 9450s are able to deliver the performance required and enable these manufacturers to begin commercial designs." Reference Design Delivers 4Kx2K Performance Today While previous industry demonstrations of 4Kx2K have used custom processing solutions, often utilizing multiple field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to manage the complexity, today's demonstration uses Gennum's new 4Kx2K reference design, incorporating two of Gennum's popular GF9450 image processors to power the display. The GF9450s, powered by VXP technology, provide full motion-adaptive deinterlacing, professional quality scaling up to 4Kx2K, frame rate conversion and various image enhancement See image editing. technologies such as 3D noise reduction, compression artifact reduction and detail enhancement. The low power of the GF9450, under 3.5 watts, is also key to emerging 4Kx2K displays as it will eliminate the need for a fan to cool the device, which is increasingly required for high bandwidth image processors. This makes it possible for Gennum's solutions to be incorporated into the small footprint of flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time electronics while delivering the processing bandwidth and image quality expected of very high resolution displays. Gennum also disclosed its roadmap for a single chip solution that delivers the performance necessary for 4K displays. The integrated, single-chip processor is expected in Q4'07, enabling consumer availability as soon as 2H'08. 4Kx2K delivers roughly four times the resolution of today's HD displays, making it highly desirable for advanced home theatre equipment, such as front and rear projectors and emerging LCD displays. The move to wide quad eXtended graphics array (hardware) eXtended Graphics Array - (XGA) An IBM display standard introduced in 1990. XGA supports a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels with a palette of 256 colours, or 640 x 480 with high colour (16 bits per pixel). (WQXGA WQXGA Wide Quad Extended Graphics Array (Computer Video Display Configuration 2560×1600 16:10 4.1m) ) displays is also highly desired for industrial display applications such as command and control monitoring, industrial design and medical imaging equipment. With Gennum's reference design, manufacturers can begin design and implementation of a commercial solution for their WQXGA and 4Kx2K applications. Pricing and Availability The RDK RDK Reference Design Kit RDK Red Dragon Karate (compilation of different major styles, mostly based on Shotokan) RDK Reload Delay Kit RDK Report Developer Kit RDK Rapid Deployment Kit RDK Re-Distribution Kit RDK Render Developer Kit 9450-4K reference design is available for sampling in August 2007. About Gennum Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) is a leading designer and manufacturer of semiconductor solutions for the global video, data communications and audio markets. A winner of a Technical Emmy[R] award for advances in high definition (HD) broadcasting, Gennum's broad portfolio of products and technologies include image processors, video timing and transport products, ICs for optical transceivers, backplane interconnects and low power digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive ) solutions. Gennum is headquartered in Burlington, Canada, and has global design, research and development and sales offices in Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom. www.gennum.com Emmy[R] is a registered trademark of the National Television Academy Gennum, the Gennum logo and VXP are registered trademarks of Gennum Corporation. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. Gennum Corporation, 2007. |
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