Texas Instruments has added full HD 1080p H.264 encoding to its range of DM36x DaVinci video processors.
The TMS320DM368 video processor opens the way for HD video in digital signage.
The processor provides multi-format HD video, including VC1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MJPEG and H.264 up to 1080p at 30 frames per second encoding.
Multi-format decode, multi-rate multi-stream and HD multi-channel are also supported.
Audio, speech and other HD video codecs are also available for the DM368.
Pin compatibility means designs can be scaled up from TI’s earlier TMS320DM365 DaVinci video processor.
The chip’s ARM926EJ-S core runs faster at 432 MHz, while the video accelerators take the load for the video encode/decode functions.