Interra Announces SMPTE VC-1 Video Stream Analyzer and Expands Sales Network in Europe.SAN JOSE, Calif. & AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Interra Systems, Inc., the leading provider of customizable technology components and services, today expanded its video stream analyzer offering by adding the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, White Plains, NY, www.smpte.org) A professional society for motion picture and TV engineers with more than 9,000 members worldwide. It prepares standards and documentation for TV production. VC-1 Analyzer in its product portfolio. Emulating Interra's popular H264 Analyzer, the SMPTE VC-1 Analyzer verifies a range of audio/video streams for compliance with several media standards including SMPTE VC-1, MPEG-2 Transport, MPEG-4 Video, MP4, 3GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol , AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. AAC, especially MPEG-4 AAC, provides greater compression and better sound quality than MP3, which also came out of the MPEG standard. Audio, and AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. . The Analyzer is an essential tool for design and evaluation engineers in semiconductor and consumer electronics, video equipment manufacturers, video network operators, mobile phone equipment manufacturers and operators. The SMPTE VC-1 Analyzer performs detailed syntax and conformance checks on the selected stream. Interra's SMPTE VC-1 Analyzer supports the VC1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Video standards, the AMR & AAC Audio standards, MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 2 Transport, MP4, 3GPP and ASF See Windows Media formats. 1. (language) ASF - Algebraic Specification Language. 2. (body) ASF - Analytical Solutions Forum. . "Our SMPTE VC-1 Analyzer users can quickly verify, debug, and troubleshoot standards and conformance-related problems in their product or application before introducing it into the market. Design and evaluation engineers in the semiconductor and consumer electronics business, professional video equipment manufacturers, video network operators, mobile phone equipment manufacturers and operators will find our SMPTE VC-1 Analyzer a very useful tool," said Sunil Jain, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . Interra's VC-1 Analyzer will be available immediately on the PC platform running Windows 2000 or XP. The VC-1 Analyzer SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). , which can easily be integrated into customer applications, will be available in Q1 2006. For product demonstration at IBC or more specific availability and pricing information in your territory you may contact Ashish Basu at Interra Systems (ashish@interrasystems.com). Along with the announcement of its SMPTE VC-1 Analyzer, Interra announced the appointment of Digi-Box UK (http://www.digi-box.co.uk/) & MindCrea (http://www.MindCrea.com/), Finland as its partners in Europe. These new distribution relationships further extends Interra's sales footprint which already includes distribution networks in Asia, North America and a global partnering relationship with Acterna (http://www.acterna.com/). "Digi-Box and MindCrea will help us broaden market penetration in Europe and respond to the demand for our video stream analysis solutions," said Ashish Basu, Vice president of Sales and Business Development at Interra. "Digi-Box is pleased to partner with Interra to deliver their video analyzer products to the UK & Ireland markets," said Jon Philips, Managing Director of Digi-Box. On the occasion of this announcement Christer Pyyhtia, founder of MindCrea added "With Interra's H.264 and VC-1 analyzers, we can help video engineers debug standards and conformance-related problems and in achieving shorter design cycles." About Interra Systems Interra Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of highly flexible and adaptive solutions for accelerating the development of digital video products, memory, ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. , SoC and system designs. Interra's offerings include digital video IPs, a memory development system, EDA tool front-ends, which includes a RTL Synthesis, VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. and Verilog analyzers and test suites. Interra offers a breadth of services for developing Digital Video applications and DSP solutions, and for Electronic and Memory Design Automation. For more information visit Interra's website at http://www.interrasystems.com/. |
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