Chips&Media

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Chips&Media, Inc.
Company typePublic
KOSDAQ:094360
Industry Semiconductor IP
FoundedMarch 2003
Headquarters Seoul, Korea
ProductsUHD (4K) Video Encoder & Decoder IP Core : WAVE,

Video Encoder & Decoder IP Core : CODA,

Video Decoder IP Core : BODA,

Image Signal Processing IP : CARPO/LEDA/METIS, Computational Photography IP NIX/HYDRA/KERBEROS,

Object Detection IP

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 : c.WAVE100
Revenue KRW 14.1 billion (2018)
Increase2.svg KRW 2.0 billion (2018)
Increase2.svg KRW 2.6 billion (2018)
Website www.chipsnmedia.com

Chips&Media, Inc. is a provider of intellectual property for integrated circuits (commonly called "chips") such as system on a chip technology for encoding and decoding video (video codecs), and image processing. Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Products

Since 2003, the company has developed video technology. Its video semiconductor intellectual property cores (IP cores) cover video coding formats such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264/AVC, VC-1, RealVideo, AVS, MVC, VP8, AVS, AVS2, HEVC(H.265) and VP9. Their technologies are used by licensees including Freescale, [1] [2] [3] VIA, [4] Realtek and Novatek [5] Innofidei, [6] and Telechips.

The company announced an image processing products in 2016 and 2017, [7] [8] and reportedly signed first license deal in March 2018. [9]

In 2018, Chips&Media added object detection IP to its product line up. [10]

WAVE

WAVE is multi-standard encoder and decoder system specifically designed for ultra-high-definition(4K) resolution up to 60 frame per second. WAVE codec (encoder & decoder) supports HEVC(H.265) and H.264/AVC, while decodes formats including HEVC(H.265), H.264/AVC, VP9, AV1 and AV2.

CODA

CODA video cores are multi-standard video engines that encode and decode, with support for simultaneous multiple channel or format, suited to mobile handsets, digital camcorders, home multimedia devices, video conferencing, and video surveillance. CODA supports 2K resolution at up to 60 frames per second. The main distinguishing points compared to WAVE is CODA's inability to encode and decode HEVC(H.265) and its 2K vs 4K.

BODA

BODA video cores decode formats that include H.264/AVC, VC-1, MVC, VP8, H.263, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, RealVideo, and AVS with support in resolutions from D1 through to Full HD (1080p). Among them is the first fully hardware decoder for VP8 that can decode Full HD resolution VP8 streams at 60 frames per second. [11]

CARPO/LEDA/METIS

CARPO, LEDA, and METIS are image signal processing(ISP) tools that provide configurable ISP pipelines that support resolutions up to 2MP, 5MP, and above 5MP respectively. These are basic ISP pipelines that can be complemented by NIX, HYDRA, or KERBEROS.

NIX

NIX is a multi-exposure HDR (wide dynamic range) design. NIX supports the fusion of two exposures with a line-interleaved method.

HYDRA

HYDRA is a three dimensional noise reduction (3DNR) system that removes image noises by using multiple image frames. It uses a motion adaptive method.

KERBEROS

KERBEROS is a lens distortion correction method that corrects or flattens images distorted by wide-angled lenses.

c.WAVE100

c.WAVE100 is computer vision IP, detecting objects (e.g. car, person, cyclist) with a capability to process 4K resolution at 30fps video input in real-time. The IP implements Convolution Neural Network (CNN) algorithm for object detection and is differentiated by introducing fully hardwired and dedicated architecture to significantly reduce memory bandwidth requirements. These characteristics make the fixed function IP suitable for computing intensive edge devices in automotive and surveillance applications.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Video codec</span> Digital video processing

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Advanced Video Coding</span> Most widely used standard for video compression

Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding. It is by far the most commonly used format for the recording, compression, and distribution of video content, used by 91% of video industry developers as of September 2019. It supports a maximum resolution of 8K UHD.

libavcodec is a free and open-source library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data.

MPEG LA was an American company based in Denver, Colorado that licensed patent pools covering essential patents required for use of the MPEG-2, MPEG-4, IEEE 1394, VC-1, ATSC, MVC, MPEG-2 Systems, AVC/H.264 and HEVC standards.

Unified Video Decoder is the name given to AMD's dedicated video decoding ASIC. There are multiple versions implementing a multitude of video codecs, such as H.264 and VC-1.

The following is a list of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC products and implementations.

PureVideo is Nvidia's hardware SIP core that performs video decoding. PureVideo is integrated into some of the Nvidia GPUs, and it supports hardware decoding of multiple video codec standards: MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264, HEVC, and AV1. PureVideo occupies a considerable amount of a GPU's die area and should not be confused with Nvidia NVENC. In addition to video decoding on chip, PureVideo offers features such as edge enhancement, noise reduction, deinterlacing, dynamic contrast enhancement and color enhancement.

Video Acceleration API (VA-API) is an open source application programming interface that allows applications such as VLC media player or GStreamer to use hardware video acceleration capabilities, usually provided by the graphics processing unit (GPU). It is implemented by the free and open-source library libva, combined with a hardware-specific driver, usually provided together with the GPU driver.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">VP8</span> Open and royalty-free video coding format released by Google in 2010

VP8 is an open and royalty-free video compression format released by On2 Technologies in 2008.

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard designed as part of the MPEG-H project as a successor to the widely used Advanced Video Coding. In comparison to AVC, HEVC offers from 25% to 50% better data compression at the same level of video quality, or substantially improved video quality at the same bit rate. It supports resolutions up to 8192×4320, including 8K UHD, and unlike the primarily 8-bit AVC, HEVC's higher fidelity Main 10 profile has been incorporated into nearly all supporting hardware.

Intel Quick Sync Video is Intel's brand for its dedicated video encoding and decoding hardware core. Quick Sync was introduced with the Sandy Bridge CPU microarchitecture on 9 January 2011 and has been found on the die of Intel CPUs ever since.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">VP9</span> Open and royalty-free video coding format released by Google in 2013

VP9 is an open and royalty-free video coding format developed by Google.

High Efficiency Video Coding implementations and products covers the implementations and products of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a consortium founded in 2015 that includes semiconductor firms, video on demand providers, video content producers, software development companies and web browser vendors. The AV1 bitstream specification includes a reference video codec. In 2018, Facebook conducted testing that approximated real-world conditions, and the AV1 reference encoder achieved 34%, 46.2%, and 50.3% higher data compression than libvpx-vp9, x264 High profile, and x264 Main profile respectively.

Nvidia NVDEC is a feature in its graphics cards that performs video decoding, offloading this compute-intensive task from the CPU.

Video Core Next is AMD's brand for its dedicated video encoding and decoding hardware core. It is a family of hardware accelerator designs for encoding and decoding video, and is built into AMD's GPUs and APUs since AMD Raven Ridge, released January 2018.

Versatile Video Coding (VVC), also known as H.266, ISO/IEC 23090-3, and MPEG-I Part 3, is a video compression standard finalized on 6 July 2020, by the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET), a joint video expert team of the VCEG working group of ITU-T Study Group 16 and the MPEG working group of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29. It is the successor to High Efficiency Video Coding. It was developed with two primary goals – improved compression performance and support for a very broad range of applications.

References

  1. ↑ "Freescale SoCs integrate Chips&Media's video tech". Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  2. ↑ "Freescale SoCs integrate Chips&Media's video tech | News about radioelectronics". Archived from the original on 2012-04-05. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  3. ↑ "Chips&Media's video codec employed in Freescale latest i.MX 6 series". Archived from the original on 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  4. ↑ "VIA chooses Chips&Media video core for Blu-ray support". Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  5. ↑ "Novatek Selects Chips&Media's HD video technology for Set-top Box and DTV Platforms". Digital TV News.
  6. ↑ "Chips&Media and Innofidei Unveil New Chip Design for CMMB in China Market". Design And Reuse.
  7. ↑ "Chips&Media unveils its first image signal processing (ISP) IP solution". Design And Reuse. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
  8. ↑ "Chips&Media announced Image Signal Processing (ISP) IP family targeting surveillance and automotive products". Design And Reuse. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  9. ↑ "Chips&Media was reportedly signed a contract to supply ISP IP package for IP cameras intended for surveillance market". Design And Reuse. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  10. ↑ "Chips&Media Unveils its first Computer Vision IP". Design And Reuse. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  11. ↑ Chips&Media delivers latest dual HD video IP core with VP8 hardware decoding capability, Design & Reuse, 2010-11-18
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