videantis announces 65nm silicon for v-MP2000 family

Hannover, Germany - August 14, 2006 - videantis GmbH, a leading IP provider of multi-standard video processing solutions, announces the availability of silicon samples of its v-MP2000 video processor family manufactured in the most advanced 65nm technology.

"We consider the availability of 65nm structured system on silicon with our video processing cores as another important milestone on our way to providing most advanced solutions to our customers," said Hans-Joachim Stolberg, CEO & CTO of videantis. "Our customers with high volume applications in consumer and mobile applications get a solution now to leapfrog anyone in terms of performance, integration, and power consumption."

The videantis chip, manufactured in a low-power technology and specifically designed for mobile multimedia applications, comprises two v-MP2000M subsystems, a controlling RISC processor, additional on-chip SRAM, multi-standard video input/output interfaces, and host processor and memory interfaces. The full programmability of the v-MP2000 family of video IP supports the whole range of video compression standards like H.264/AVC and MPEG-4 at full frame rate up to standard TV resolution. On top of encoding and decoding applications, additional value-add features for image quality enhancement are supported.

About videantis

videantis GmbH, Hannover, Germany, is a leading chip, silicon IP, and software solutions provider for mobile, home, and custom multimedia applications. videantis combines the expertise of an application-adapted, yet fully programmable architecture, an extensive portfolio of optimized applications, and system-on-chip integration services to offer comprehensive one-stop video solutions. Based on its application-optimized processor platform family, videantis licenses multi-standard capable video IP solutions for the most advanced video coding standards including H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, H.263, DivX, WMV9/VC-1, and MPEG-2, and video enhancement. As a fast-growing company, videantis continues to extend its technical expertise with further build-up of personnel at its location Germany. For more information about videantis GmbH please visit http://www.videantis.com.