Hantro VC9000NanoE is a multi-format video encoder supporting H.264, VP8 and JPEG. It is the first HW IP encoder to support VP8 for Google’s WebM and WebRTC. Hantro VC9000NanoE was designed for battery operated devices using state-of-the-art power saving methods leading to unbeatable power consumption.
Multi-format video encoder IP Core
Overview
Key Features
- Effective Real-Time Communication tool set
- Temporal scalability (VP8)
- Simulcast (spatial scalability), multi-instance support
- Macroblock Coding Statistics
- Smart In-Frame Bit Allocation
- Two reference frames; previous and Golden (or H264 LTR)
- Intra Region/Slice/MB refresh
- Low latency
- Configurable P-frame support
- High programmability: quality improvements by SW updates
- Ultra-low CPU load: controllable even by 8051 or equivalent
- Minimal power consumption: functional level clock gating and synthesis time clock gating
- Extensive pre-processing functions: rotation, cropping, color conversion, scene change detection and video stabilization
- H.264 interlaced encoding for DVR transcodingv
- High latency resilience
- Video resolution support up to 1080p60@550 MHz, still image up to 64 Mpix
- Format Support
- VP8 (WebM, WebP)
- H.264 Baseline, Main and High, levels 1-5.1
- MVC Stereo High
- JPEG Baseline DCT (sequential)
- Bus Interface Support
- AMBA AHB, AXI, AMBA 3 APB
- Target CPU
- Any ARM or similar core (CPU load is extremely low
Block Diagram
Technical Specifications
Foundry, Node
All
Maturity
Mass Production
Availability
Now