TI Transforms Video Experience with 3x Greater HD Video Processing Performance

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has expanded its DaVinci digital media processor platform with the release of the TMS320DM8168 DaVinci digital media processor and the software compatible, power-efficient TMS320DM8148 DaVinci digital media processor. With these video processors, TI is helping provide life-like video communications to bring people together, increase public safety, enable real-time automotive vision systems to support safer driving, deliver the highest-quality entertainment to consumers and more.

The DM8168 DaVinci digital media processor offers three times the video streaming capability over competing solutions with up to three simultaneous 1080p 60fps video streams, 12 simultaneous 720p 30fps video streams or a combination of lower resolution streams. This enables customers to build video-centric systems that capture, encode, decode and analyze multiple video streams simultaneously on up to three independent displays. It also concurrently allows customers to differentiate their products with advanced analytics capabilities. It is ideal for multi-channel HD video surveillance systems, video conferencing systems, media hubs and servers and video broadcasting systems.

The lower-power DM8148 DaVinci digital media processor offers a single, high-performance, 1080p 60fps video stream, three simultaneous 720p 30fps video streams or multiple lower resolution streams at 3W. It also includes cutting-edge display and analytics capabilities, similar to the DM8168 DaVinci digital media processor, and it's perfect for power-sensitive, consumer and medical video applications requiring fewer video streams. These applications include Skype video cameras, interactive digital signage, video surveillance DVRs or IP net cams, streaming media players and network projectors.

Easy product migration options between the DM8168 digital media processor to the power-efficient, software compatible DM8148 digital media processor allow customers to create multiple, unique products quickly and easily within the DaVinci digital media platform, utilizing TI's EZ software development kit (SDK), allowing software code reuse and customization via a single software investment. Customers can also use the same EZ SDK from TI for applications not needing video processing to migrate to the pin-for-pin compatible Sitara ARM MPU or the C6-Integra DSP + ARM platforms to further leverage a single hardware and software investment.

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