Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd

Fujitsu Launches Full HD H.264 Transcoder LSI

- Extends recording time by more than 2.5 times while maintaining video quality

Singapore, September 10, 2007  — Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL) today announced the release of a new transcoder chip that can compress full HD (1920 x 1080) MPEG-2 video data to H.264 data. The new chip, MB86H52, is capable of compressing MPEG-2 video to less than half the data size while maintaining the same video quality.

With such high compression, the new chip is ideal for use in recording equipment such as hard drives, etc., where recording time can be increased by more than 250%. It also allows transmission of full HD video over narrow bandwidths. With the predicted increase in home network appliances, there are also many opportunities to embed this transcoder into equipment where the video data size needs to be reduced.

MB86H52’s superior properties are the result of a proprietary algorithm developed by Fujitsu Laboratories that automatically applies less compression to areas in the image where compression artefacts are most noticeable to human vision, such as human faces or slow-moving objects, and greater compression to other areas. Thus, high image quality for the critical zones is maximised.

MB86H52 provides a full HD H.264 CODEC (COde/DECode) for video encoding and decoding, so that uncompressed video data can be compressed to the H.264 format, while the device can also decompress video data from compressed or transcoded H.264. The CODEC is the same as that used in the previously announced MB86H51 device.

Fujitsu plans to continue to be an industry leader of H.264 video processing devices with full HD multi-decoders that can handle various video formats, and will provide customers with more video processing chips for high-performance digital equipments.

Specifications

Functions	Transcode	Video	MPEG-2 HD to H.264 HD/SD MPEG-2 SD to H.264 SD
		Audio	Time stamp re-allocation
	H.264CODEC  (*1)	Video	VBS  (*2) to H.264 HD/SD
		Audio	ABS(*3) to MPEG-1 Audio Layer2, etc.
Video	Profile	MPEG-2video main profile / high-level decoder. H.264high profile /Level 4.0 half-duplex CODEC.
	Resolution	1920x1080x60i/50i, 1440x1080x60i/50i, 1280x720x60p/50p, 720x480x60i, 720x576x50i
	Interface	SMPTE274M/SMPTE296M-2001, ITU-R BT.656
Audio	Formats	MPEG-1Audio Layer2, MPEG2-AAC (LC profile), Linear PCM, Dolby© Digital(AC-3)  (*4)
	Channels	2channel
	Interface	LRserial
System	Format	MPEG2-TSCBR/ VBR
	StreamInterface	8bit parallel or serial
Host Interface		General-purpose16-bit interface
Input Clock Frequency		27MHz
Operating Frequency		Internal:216MHz / DDR2 memory interface: 324MHz
Power Consumption		2Watt ( typ . 1.2V, at HD transcoding )
Package		PBGA496 pin, 27 sq. mm, (1.0mm ball pitch)
Process Technology		90nm

Glossary

MPEG-2
It is a video compression format that is part of the MPEG standard for video compression. Widely used in DVDs and other video products.

H.264
Formally MPEG4 AVC/H.264. A video-encoding format noted for offering more compression than MPEG-2 and other earlier formats. Jointly defined by the ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union, Telecommunication Standardization Sector) and ISO/IEC (International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission), it is the most recent international standard for video compression.

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About Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd

Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL) was established in 1986 to provide semiconductor sales and support solutions to customers in Southeast Asia, India and Oceania. FMAL offers a diverse array of application-oriented semiconductor products and solutions such as ASIC, ASSPs, microcontrollers / microprocessors (FR-V), System Memory (Flash Memory / FRAM / FCRAM) and System LSIs (DVD MPEG Source Decoders / MPEG –2 Encoders).

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