Texas Instruments Expands Support For Portable Media Players with Two Digital Multimedia Reference Designs

The two reference designs from Federal Technologies Limited (Fedtec) and Ingenient Technologies are hard disk drive-based (HDD) designs, which provide the hardware and software foundation developers need to bring fully functional portable media players and recorders to market quickly. TI's OEMs can easily choose from the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of off-the-shelf video, audio, imaging and networking codecs, protocols and enhancement algorithms, including MPEG-4 SP, ASP, H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, DivX(TM), WMV9 and MJPEG. Developers also can take advantage of the power efficiency and performance headroom of TI's Digital Media processor by differentiating their products with their own software for advanced functionality.

"As the leaders in this market, we continue to produce technologies that drive the future of portable media jukeboxes, enabling new features to be added while making the products easier to use," says Chris Schairbaum, worldwide business manager of TI's Portable Audio and Infotainment business unit. "Working with Fedtec and Ingenient, we are able to help OEMs begin development within days of deciding to launch a portable media player."

Availability

The MP4900-BRD-DM320-20 hardware reference design from Ingenient runs Embedded Linux or Ingenient's own optimized Microkernel with Ingenient's Multimedia Framework software, including application software and customizable graphical user interface (GUI). The reference design can decode either 1/2 D1 resolution Windows Media Video 9 (WMV) or CIF resolution H.264 at 30 frames per second (fps), and can encode high quality full D1 resolution MPEG-4 at 30 fps.

The FPMC320 ready-to-manufacture Portable Multimedia Center reference design from Fedtec runs the FedLinux operating system, with drivers, system and application software and a customizable GUI. It can encode and decode full D1 resolution MPEG-4 at 30 fps apart from all popular audio, video, image and speech codecs. Fedtec, in collaboration with its third-party manufacturers, also would sell customized portable media players/recorders to OEMs, per their specifications as an original design manufacturer.

Both reference designs are available now and offer the complete hardware and software needed to create high-quality consumer portable multimedia players, including the operating system, all popular multimedia algorithms, system code and documentation.

For more information about the Ingenient MP4900-BRD-DM320-20, visit http://www.ingenient.com/ or contact Bill Spears at (847) 357-1978.

For more information about the Fedtec FPMC320, visit http://www.fedtec.com/ or contact Rathan Kumar at +91-80-2229 8555.

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