TI and Wintech new development platform to reduce the cost of videophone system

February 21st Beijing news days ago, TI (TI) and Wintech Digital System Company (Wintech) announced the joint launch of videophone development platform (VDP), a comprehensive development platform for the video phone system based on IP is designed, which can help OEMs faster video telephone market. VDP can help developers to achieve real-time high-quality consumer video telephone system on TI digital media processor, and greatly reduce the system cost and shorten the development time. The spread of video telephony in the traditional face of the obstacles is the video image jitter, poor image quality, and high unit costs. However, with the launch of a new video codec, the video transmission bandwidth requirement is reduced by half, and the continuous development of IP broadband connection and the implementation of the single chip encoding and decoding, which enables us to overcome the obstacles of the last mile. Market demand for IP consumer video phones with excellent video quality is increasing, which has driven the emergence of new and improved systems.

Many large telecom operators have announced plans to launch IP video telephony and related services to small and medium enterprises and individuals with broadband Internet connections to further promote the deployment of videophone. Wainhouse Research expects the overall personal videoconferencing market will grow from $21 million in 2003 to nearly $180 million in 2008, the compound growth rate of about 53%.

Unparalleled development platform

TI and Wintech launched VDP is a highly integrated hardware and software development platform, which reduces the complexity of the overall system design and bill of materials, including developers immediately begin all design points needed to point videophone system. All application software is running on the TI 600 MHz TMS320DM643 digital media processor based on DSP, including audio / video compression, network stack and control protocol.

From the hardware point of view, the modular VDP provides a complete development environment for the design and construction of consumer videophone. Developers can in real time network (live network) and / or Internet connection on the development board, tested in real operating conditions, and we can easily use different video phone to configure VDP. The hardware platform includes external memory and peripherals, audio / video interface, network connection and communication interface.

The key to flexibility is based on VDP with DM643 programmable digital media processor, which allows OEM manufacturers to customize the user interface from the codec to the whole design, and create a series of products with different price line on the same platform. VDP includes the industry standards, so the products developed using VDP and other video phones and existing IP infrastructure interoperability. Similarly, VDP also uses TI compensation simulation technology, including TVP5150 video decoder and AIC23 audio codec, you can achieve the best quality video and audio. VDP contains all the necessary software for evaluating, designing, and testing video telephony endpoints, such as video codec, integrated reference framework, communication stack, and network protocol.

Price and availability

VDP has started to supply complete VDP including two DM643 plate, two five inch LCD, two cameras, network switch / hub and complete the use of application software, which is priced at $6950.