TVBLOB to Port Its ScatterMedia Software Toolkit to Toshiba TX RISC Processors
and AVM49R Multimedia Reference Platform
SAN JOSE, Calif. and MILAN, Italy, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba America
Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)* and TVBLOB(TM) Srl, today announced a
strategic relationship to provide a quick time-to-market solution for a wide
range of multimedia appliances based on the new TVBLOB ScatterMedia(TM)
Toolkit and Toshiba TX System RISC microprocessors. The Toshiba/TVBLOB
collaboration will provide customers with complete reference designs,
operating systems, drivers, middleware and application layers for systems,
including media players, streaming servers, digital video recorders,
soft-phones and video-conferencing appliances. Initially, TVBLOB will port
its ScatterMedia software platform to the Toshiba TMPR4938-powered AVM49R
Multimedia Reference Platform. The first customer demonstrations of the
TVBLOB ScatterMedia-enabled AVM49R took place at CES 2005 in Las Vegas, Nev.
"Following our recent announcement of the AVM49R Multimedia Reference
Platform, we are pleased to collaborate with TVBLOB," said Shardul Kazi, vice
president of the RISC Microprocessor and Multimedia Business Unit at TAEC.
"With the TVBLOB ScatterMedia software platform, set-top box manufacturers and
developers who want to build applications with flexible streaming and
client/server support can get to market faster and leapfrog the competition."
"We are excited to work with TAEC to provide OEMs with an unsurpassable
solution," said TVBLOB CEO Fabrizio Caffarelli. "The combined Toshiba
Multimedia Reference Platform and the TVBLOB ScatterMedia software platform
offer OEMs an extremely short time to market for an unlimited number of
multimedia-centric devices for SOHO, home, and professional use, thanks to the
highly integrated TMPR49xx chipset family and ScatterMedia's modularity."
The ScatterMedia Toolkit provides the foundation to build network-
distributed and interactive applications with strong support for real-time
streaming and media management. The ScatterMedia software platform includes
modules for quick and easy creation of media players, streaming servers,
digital video recorders, soft-phones, and video-conferencing appliances, based
on typical set-top box or professional rack-mount hardware-embedded platforms.
The ScatterMedia Toolkit offers a codec control infrastructure to easily
integrate and mix hardware and software codecs. A full implementation of the
Vweb codec chip on the AVM49R Toshiba platform provides a bi-directional, low
latency, turnkey solution supporting MPEG-1/2/4 and H.263 for video and MPEG-1
layer I/II, MP3, AAC, AC-3, G.7xx for audio. The core components are embedded
in a compact and ready-to-use daemon executable written in C/C++. The
ScatterMedia core has been optimized for the MontaVista real-time Linux
operating system; it supplies a backend gateway that offers a quick way to
create client/server and peer-to-peer applications and is based on a truly
distributed middleware. The backend server offers a plug-in infrastructure to
create data-base driven server applications and to integrate third-party
external services such as unified directories and existing billing systems.
The flexible and cost-effective Toshiba AVM49R Multimedia Reference
Platform is a complete reference design that combines a powerful, highly-
integrated 300 megahertz Toshiba TMPR4938 MIPS-based(TM) RISC processor, a
Toshiba TC86C001F PCI-to-ATA66/USB companion chip and the Vweb VW2010
MPEG-1/2/4 audio/video CODEC chip, all running under the MontaVista Linux
operating system. Offered in a compact 6.7-inch by 6.7-inch mini-ITX form
factor, it supports real-time MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoding and decoding.
Pricing and Availability
The Toshiba AVM49R Multimedia Reference Platform Hardware Developer Kit is
currently available from TAEC for customers to license at $10,000.00 per
license. The TVBLOB ScatterMedia toolkit software platform is available for
license from TVBLOB; please contact info@tvblob.com for more information.
About the Toshiba TX System RISC Family of Microprocessors and Platforms
Focusing on the digital consumer, office automation and automotive market
segments, Toshiba offers a full family of MIPS-based Reduced Instruction Set
Computer (RISC) microprocessors and peripheral circuits. The Toshiba TX
System RISC family consists of 32- and 64-bit processors available as standard
products or as a custom SoC tailored for an embedded design. The family is
comprised of a range of processors from low-power consuming to high-
performance and includes special functions essential for the design of
embedded products, such as reduced code size and real-time capability.
Toshiba offers access to expert technology professionals for design questions
and application support.
The AVM49R is a member of a family of Toshiba TX System RISC Multimedia
Reference Platforms consisting of hardware, software and system integration
tools and documentation based on products from Toshiba. This modular,
configurable approach provides a ready-to-use bill of materials and will
evolve with the customer's design and industry standards. Customers get a
jump on software development and on the competition. Platforms are available
for multimedia, industrial-control, mobile and wireless, and other digital
consumer applications.
About TVBLOB
TVBLOB was founded in 2003 by Fabrizio Caffarelli, former founder of
IncatSystems, Inc. the company that bootstrapped the CD-recording industry
with the famous Easy-CD Pro mastering software (later acquired by Adaptec).
TVBLOB products constitute the first commercially-available software platform
that can cover a range of needs from entry-level IPTV-STBs to a distributed
peer-to-peer Audio and Video streaming solution.
TVBLOB has offices in Italy and the Netherlands and technical support in
Freemont, CA. For further information please write to info@tvblob.com or
visit its site http://www.tvblob.com.
*About TAEC
Combining quality and flexibility with design engineering expertise, TAEC
brings a breadth of advanced, next-generation technologies to its customers.
This broad offering includes semiconductors, flash memory-based storage
solutions, and displays for the computing, wireless, networking, automotive
and digital consumer markets.
TAEC is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a
subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, one of the five largest semiconductor
companies worldwide in terms of global sales for the year 2003 according to
Gartner/Dataquest's Worldwide Semiconductor Market Share Ranking. Toshiba is
a world leader in high-technology products with more than 300 major
subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. For additional company and product
information, please visit TAEC's website at chips.toshiba.com. For technical
inquiries, please e-mail Tech.Questions@taec.toshiba.com.
Information in this press release, including product pricing and
specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and
believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to
change without prior notice. Technical and application information contained
here is subject to the most recent applicable Toshiba product specifications.
In developing designs, please ensure that Toshiba products are used within
specified operating ranges as set forth in the most recent Toshiba product
specifications and the information set forth in Toshiba's "Handling Guide for
Semiconductor Devices," or "Toshiba Semiconductor Reliability Handbook." This
information is available at http://www.chips.toshiba.com, or from your TAEC
representative.
All trademarks and tradenames used herein are the properties of their
respective holders.
SOURCE Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
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http://www.chips.toshiba.com
http://www.tvblob.com
CONTACT:
Judy Kahn, +1-650-948-8881,
judith.kahn@comcast.net, for Toshiba; or Deborah Chalmers of
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., +1-408-526-2454,
deborah.chalmers@taec.toshiba.com; or Deirdre Straughan of
TVBLOB, deirdre@tvblob.com
NOTE TO EDITORS: TAEC reader inquiries please publish:
Tech.Questions@taec.toshiba.com. TVBLOB reader inquiries:
please publish: info@tvblob.com
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