Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium – 16 April 2012 – Barco Silex, Barco’s center of competence for embedded video coding and electronic design, announcesthe support of its JPEG 2000 IP cores on all families of 28nm FPGA devices.
Barco Silex, announces the support of its advanced JPEG 2000 IP cores on all FPGA devices using 28nm process.
“We are pleased to move forward with the new generation of FPGAs.” said Thierry Pauwels, Marketing & Sales Support for IP Business at Barco Silex. “Barco Silex is a long-time partner of both major FPGA vendors. As such, we are committed to support their latest devices as soon as they deliver.”
The flexible JPEG 2000 IP cores from Barco Silex are already available on all 28nm FPGAs.
This covers the Altera Stratix-V and Xilinx Virtex-7 devices for high performance applications. And the Altera Arria-V & Cyclone-V and the Xilinx Kintex-7 & Artix-7when cost-reduction is the key to success.
“We are committed to long term support”, commented Jean-Marie Cloquet, Product Manager at Barco Silex. “The implementation on 28nm FPGAs is the natural continuity for our flexible JPEG 2000 IP cores. These new devices will allow to further push the limit of performances for high-end applications and to reduce the cost for low-end and mid-end products. Moreover they will improve the power consumption which is always critical.”
Barco Silex offers the most flexible and comprehensive JPEG 2000 solutions on FGPA for broadcast and digital cinema applications. The support for the latest 28nm FPGA devices fits in the continuity of Barco Silex commitment to providing the industry with efficient and reliable solutions for JPEG 2000 while meeting the ever evolving constraints of cost and time-to-market.
For any questions or updated technical information about Barco Silex’ offering on the new FPGA devices, please visit Barco Silex website (www.barco-silex.com) or contact us at barco-silex@barco.com.
About Barco Silex
Barco Silex is a leader in contract engineering services, custom hardware and software development, as well as Intellectual Property (IP). Thanks to its continued stream of aggressive innovations,Barco Silex stays ahead of the competition. Barco Silex’s history as a custom electronic design house (ASIC, FPGA, DSP, Board) specialized in video coding, cryptography, security and memory controllers goes back to 1991, offering the best guarantee for continuous support throughout the complete lifecycle of products.
About Barco
Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with about 3,500 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of 1 billion euro in 2011.
