The Aspex Compression Engine (ACE) at the centre of our Q transcoder family is available for license as a stand-alone block, which can be integrated into a custom ASIC or ASSP implementation for specific applications, such as:

• Handset Application Processors
• Wireless HDMI chipsets
• PC Graphics chipsets
• HD Camcorders
• Digital Still Cameras
• Webcams

Available as fully synthesizable Verilog RTL, the inherent scalability of the ACE architecture allows it to be easily scaled to support any price, power, performance or quality point required for your applications.

At the heart of the ACE architecture is our 8th generation ASProCore, a SIMD architecture optimised for pixel- and macroblock-level processing functions, such as transforms, intra-prediction, sub-pel motion estimation & deblocking. The number of Macroblock Processing Units in the ACE can be easily be scaled up or down to accomodate any desired performance.

The compression engine can also be configured with optional flexible hardware accelerators for motion estimation and entropy coding.

Software running in the ACE's Control Unit can implement a wide range of codecs, including

• H.264 / AVC (Baseline, Main and/or High Profiles)
• VC-1 / Windows Media (Simple, Main and/or Advanced Profiles)
• Scalable Video Codec (SVC)
• MPEG-2
• MPEG-4 Part 2 (Advanced Simple Profile)
• AVS
• Flash (On2 VP6)
• Motion JPEG
• JPEG-2000

With industry-leading die size and power, the ACE provides a futureproof, flexible media processing engine for video encoding, decoding and transcoding.

To find out more about licensing the Aspex Compression Engine for your application, please contact us directly.