Ambarella AmbaCast 6000 Universal Broadcast Video Processor
Ambarella announced the AmbaCast 6000 universal broadcast video processor. The AmbaCast 6000 is a single-chip platform (encode, decode, transcode, transrate) for H.264 and MPEG-2, up to 1920 x 1080P60. AmbaCast 6000 can be configured to deploy MPEG-2 SD/HD services for North American Cable TV market, or H.264 SD/HD services for Telco TV market in Europe. The AmbaCast 6000 platform is currently sampling.
AmbaCast 6000 Features
- One Platform for Many Services
- Satellite – Increase number of channels per transponder
- Cable – Increase number of channels per QAM modulator, support different video formats for Video-on-Demand (VOD) or Switched Digital Video (SDV)
- Telco – Increase the reach of the services, drastically improve video quality, enable 3-Screens application
- Terrestrial – Increase number of channels, support different video formats, e.g. MPEG-2 SD/HD for ATSC, H.264 for mobile and handheld
- Unparalleled Video Quality
- RDO – World’s first single chip supports RDO implementation for HD video
- 3D Noise Reduction – Pre-processing capabilities include an advanced, highly programmable 3D spatio-temporal filters with Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering
- Low Power
- High density – 65nm process and advanced power management technology enable dense and efficient form factor
- High reliability – High level of integration lowers system component counts, and low power reduces thermal dissipation so overall system reliability is improved
- Green technology – Help build environment-friendly Head-end offices
- Future Proof
- SD to Full HD – Clear path for upgrade from SD all the way to 1080p60 Full HD
- MPEG-2 to H.264 – Unmatched compression quality for both MPEG-2 and H.264 to enable format migration
- Full Re-Encode Transcoding – Flexible transcoding from MPEG-2 to H.264 or H.264 to MPEG-2
- Proxy stream – High quality 2nd stream for Youtube, mobile TV or other emerging Internet and Mobile applications
More info: Ambarella
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