Applications

Application Overview

Historically, most DSP markets have been compute-bound  –  products improve as more processing power becomes economically available. This model shows no signs of changing, and with risk mitigation and lower development costs becoming increasingly important, a standards-based software-driven model offers compelling advantages.

Storm-1 delivers the compute performance of a dozen traditional DSPs, and with industry-leading price/performance, power-efficiency, and scalable, C-programmable architecture customers can leapfrog multi-DSP and FPGA-based solutions while reducing BOM and development costs.

New functionality can be developed and introduced in a matter of days or weeks, not months or years.

Application Examples

In addition to other applications specifically outlined (Video Surveillance, Video Conferencing, and Multi-Function Printers), SPI's solutions are well-suited for a wide range of demanding signal and media processing applications: 

• Broadcasting: Transcoding, encoding, noise reduction, overlay insertion, mosaics, rateshaping, H.264 SVC
• Wireless Infrastructure: LTE and WiMax basestations
• Search: Indexing and image/video recognition
• Digital Television: Image enhancements; MCFRC, UHD upscaling, dynamic LED backlighting, 3D
• Medical Imaging: 4D Ultrasound
• IP Media Servers (IMS): Transcoding/transrating, QoS
• Personal Video Recorders: Multi-standard HD and place-shifting
• Military: Radar, radio
• Bioinformatics: Smith-Waterman, Hidden Markov Models

Contact SPI to discuss solutions and third party support for these applications.