IP Licensing

To shorten development cycles and enable our customers to provide best-in-class multimedia products to their end users, Sasken Inc offers a comprehensive portfolio of multimedia software components that can be assembled in flexible combinations and run on a platform of interest from Sasken Inc’s suite of hardware reference designs.

Commonly licensed components include:

  • Board support packages and embedded operating systems including device and interface drivers, file management systems and embedded Linux or WinCE
  • Encoders, decoders and transcoders
  • Multimedia enhancement components including video, audio, image and telephony pre- and post-processing libraries
  • Multimedia management components such as file format parsers and constructors, transport stream support and watermarking
  • Multimedia system management components including the Host / DSP interface bridge, multimedia application framework and power management
  • Multi-purpose hardware reference design kits

Sasken Inc has cutting-edge implementations of the major video and audio compression algorithms in use today. The large inventory of codecs includes H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, WMV, WMA, MP3 and AAC, as well as voice and telephony codecs, all of which have been highly optimized for a wide array of TI DSPs and SoCs. Other multimedia components include video pre-processing and post-processing, scaling, blending, acoustic echo cancellation, multi-band equalizers, rate converters, filters, and file format parsers and constructors including ASF, MPG, AVI, MP4, MP3, AAC, MKV and OGM, as well as support for streaming protocols including RTP, RTSP, RTCP, Transport Stream and ASF.

The multimedia framework can be licensed to help assemble the library parts into a full high-performance multimedia system. Customers can utilize highly-optimized device drivers and an efficient general purpose hardware reference design to create a functional development platform, which can be used to jumpstart application development while custom hardware is being designed.

Solution-level reference designs are available for the following target applications:

  • Mobile DTV player: ISDB-T, TDMB, IPSTB, DVB-T/H
  • Portable Media Player
  • IP Set Top Box
  • Media Server
  • Digital Video Recorder
  • IP Video Phone
  • Low-delay Streaming Encoder
  • Broadcast Quality Encoder
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