Renesas Announces New Middleware for SH-Mobile Application Processor

Renesas Technology (News - Alert) Europe has developed a new HD video middleware designed for use with SH-Mobile products. The addition of the middleware has prompted the company to upgrade their SH-Mobile application processor to capture and play fullHD (1080p) videos in mobile phones.

 

HD Video Middleware is software that provides control of the hardware accelerator.

 

Renesas Technology is a semiconductor company with a portfolio of global products, and develops and delivers system LSIs, including microcomputers, logic and analog devices, discrete devices and memory products.

 

SH-Mobile (SuperH Mobile Application Processor (News - Alert)) is designed to offload application processing from the baseband LSI, this is a solution to ease system development and realize significant performance improvement. According to officials, this processor facilitates the separation of application software and communication protocol software. As it takes out the processes dependence away from baseband, it can reduce time-to-market, and allows rapid evolution of multimedia applications whilst retaining investment in established communications protocol software.

 

The middleware also supports MPEG-2 TS (Transport Stream), a multiplexed HD video format that is rapidly gaining adoption in the digital home electronics field. This will simplify the process of turning video captured with the camera of a mobile phone into HD video files that can be displayed on digital home electronics products.

 

Renesas has stated that the processor works on the company’s proven technologies to playback HD videos with lowest power consumption.

 

The middleware is compatible with other audio middleware from Renesas that supports higher quality audio compression codec like AAC-LC (Advanced Audio Coding – Low Complexity) and Dolby Digital so that users get to enjoy high quality video along with same high quality audio.

 

HD Video Middleware employs the zero-copy technique and asynchronous high-speed transfer technique to move data between its function modules. These techniques make it possible to achieve a bit rate of 9Mbps and enables handling of the large data sizes required for high-definition video. Also supported is B (News - Alert)-frame, as defined in the H.264 standard. B-frame makes it possible to reduce the bit rate while maintaining picture quality, allowing smaller file sizes and recording of longer video clips.

 

 

 

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