ISC WEST 2007, LAS VEGAS – March 26, 2007 – Stream Processors, Inc. (SPI), a fabless semiconductor company that is making parallel processing simple, today announced that its Storm-1™ SP16-G160 stream processor has been selected by Vidient Systems, Inc. to power the company’s next-generation intelligent video router – the Vidient SmartCatch® Intelligent Video Router IVR2400.

Vidient’s IVR2400 leverages the performance of a single SPI Stream Processor™ to encode four channels of H.264 standard definition (D1) or MPEG-4 video combined with robust analytics. In addition to providing actionable video content analysis information, the Stream Processor enables Vidient’s IVR2400 to dynamically control video compression based on content. This enables the appliance to load-balance video streams based on available bandwidth and to enhance video quality for behaviors of interest.

The fully software-programmable Storm-1 SP16-G160 platform delivers 80 billion multiply-accumulate operations per second (GMACS) , ample processing power to enabling next-generation, lower cost, higher-resolution intelligent video surveillance applications without the restrictions commonly associated with using traditional DSPs or inflexible application-specific standard products (ASSPs).

“SPI’s Stream Processor enables Vidient to re-define video surveillance,” said Steven H. Goldberg, President and CEO of Vidient Systems, Inc. “The decision to go with SPI was an easy one. The Storm-1 platform offers the best cost-per-channel and the flexibility of software programmability. This has enabled us to place unparalleled processing power at the edge in our Intelligent Video Router. The combination has resulted in a huge capabilities leap for our advanced video surveillance systems.”

“Vidient’s Intelligent Video Router is a prime example of the type of compute-intensive application that benefits from stream processing,” said Chip Stearns, president and CEO of SPI. “We are excited to continue our ongoing development efforts with Vidient and expect that this will be the first of many exciting announcements in this market.”

Vidient SmartCatch Intelligent Video Router IVR2400
The Vidient SmartCatch Intelligent Video Router IVR2400 is a high performance, field-deployable multi-port network appliance with industry leading, field-proven Vidient SmartCatch Analytics 3.0 built in. Featuring the unequalled video processing power of SPI’s SP16-G160 stream processor, the IVR2400 can simultaneously process and encode/transcode, in either H.264 or MPEG-4, four full video channels, more than double that of any other product available today. Placed at the network edge, the IVR2400 analyzes and encodes high quality video from both analog and digital IP cameras, directly converting any surveillance system into an efficient and intelligent video analytics network.

Storm-1: A New Class of DSPs
The Storm-1 family of DSPs offers a new level of video processing performance with low total system costs. The SP16-G160 features rich I/O including eight
video ports, Gigabit Ethernet and PCI, with full software programmability of 160 billion operations per second (GOPS). The available processing power provides the flexibility to support, for instance, multiple simultaneous codecs and advanced image processing. Designed to make parallel performance easily accessible to programmers, the Storm-1 architecture is built upon compiler-managed memory hierarchy and single-threaded approach. A simple C programming model allows shorter development cycles and frees the compiler and hardware to efficiently manage on-chip memory and synchronize runtime direct-memory access (DMA). Unlike traditional DSPs, there is no need to spend time manually choreographing caches, dealing with synchronization of DMA, or load-balancing processor cores, greatly increasing predictability and simplifying the overall programming task.

The Storm-1 Development Kit, reference designs and application libraries supplied by SPI and its ecosystem partners support customer product development and shorten time to market.

Additional information about the Storm-1 family can be found at http://www.streamprocessors.com/

About Stream Processors, Inc.
Stream Processors, Inc. (SPI) is a privately held fabless semiconductor company delivering an innovative stream processing architecture that helps consumer and industrial companies accelerate product development cycles and dramatically reduce system development costs. SPI was founded in 2004 to address the new era of compute-intensive applications requiring radically increased levels of processor performance and power efficiency. The company's technology and products improve application productivity by making parallel processing easier to program and use. Additional information can be found at http://www.streamprocessors.com/.

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