Octasic Corporation recently launched a new Opus2 DSP core series called OCT2200, designed for media gateways, HD video, and wireless systems applications. This new digital signal processing core can deliver over 36 GMACs even under worst-case process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) conditions, with power consumption below 55mW per GMAC.
The OCT2200 is based on the second-generation Opus2 DSP core technology and features 24 Opus2 DSP cores, a set of rich I/O interfaces, and an optional ARM core. Wireless application targets include single-chip femtocell and microcell solutions, as well as multi-chip cellular base station products. Media application targets include wired and wireless media gateways, IP PBX, audio and video codec gateways, HD video conferencing and streaming, video surveillance DVRs, and medical imaging systems.
In addition to the OCT2200 series, Octasic has also introduced Opus Studio, an integrated graphical development environment that enables customers to rapidly develop unique applications. Through this development environment, customers can not only develop their own program code but also take full advantage of professional program code libraries in areas such as voice, video, RF, and general signal processing.
The initial OCT2200 series products launched by Octasic are OCT2224M for media processing and OCT2224W for wireless baseband applications. The OCT2224M can perform full encoding operations on two 1080p video streams simultaneously without requiring dedicated hardware acceleration. The OCT2224W is built on the same technology and enables full multi-standard femtocell support for LTE, WiMAX, HSPA+, EDGE, or other commercial wireless standards.
In worst-case conditions, the OCT2200 single-chip core consumes less than 1.8W of power while providing over 30 GMACs. Its I/O interfaces include Serial RapidIO (sRIO), PCI Express (PCIe), GbE, multiple RF antenna interfaces, USB, smart cards, and more.