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January 30, 2001
Athena Launches Digital Camera Kit For Philips Velocity™
RSP7+ Platform
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA
- January 30, 2001-- The Athena Group, Inc., today announced
the release of its Digital Camera
Kit for development of imaging systems in the Philips
Velocity™ RSP7+ Rapid Silicon Prototyping environment.
Potential applications for the new kit include developing
both still and video imaging systems for cellular phones,
security, machine vision, automotive, and 2D scanning. The
new digital camera kit enables real-time hardware/software
co-development and co-verification. The kit comes complete
with both the software and hardware required to develop, test,
and debug embedded image processing systems on the Philips
Velocity RSP7+ platform.
Athena's high performance JPEG
Hardware Accelerator delivers ultra fast, low power image
processing on the industry-leading Philips Velocity RSP7+.
Based on an optimized software and hardware reference design
for both image capture and compression, the digital camera
kit features two Athena A7™ prototyping expansion boards
using Altera® Apex™ FPGAs and a Kodak KAC-0310 EB
color digital camera. The image processing software, based
on a reference design from the Independent JPEG Group, performs
advanced image processing functions including color correction,
sensor gain control, and color interpolation.
"We use an approach that
maintains software flexibility while offloading the most computationally
demanding portion of the JPEG compression to dedicated DSP
hardware," said Dr. Jon Mellott, CTO of Athena. "The
end result is a higher performance, lower power solution without
the design and implementation costs of a dedicated hardware-only
design."
Description
The Digital Camera Kit includes software optimized for the
Athena High Performance JPEG Accelerator, two Athena A7 Prototyping
Expansion Boards, a Kodak KAC-0310 EB color digital camera,
a camera interface cable, an ATX power supply upgrade for
the Velocity RSP7+, and user support documentation.
For more detailed information,
or to order this new product, visit: www.athena-group.com.
About The Athena Group,
Inc.
The Athena Group, Inc. licenses high-performance digital signal
processing (DSP) technology that delivers breakthrough performance,
reduced area, and reduced power consumption in a broad range
of system on a chip (SoC) products. Athena's unique patent-pending
technology powers such leading edge applications as modems,
wireless communications, and video compression. In addition
to their high value application-level solutions, Athena also
produces a full line of fundamental DSP functions, all suitable
for system on a chip (SoC) integration. Athena is a privately
held corporation located in Gainesville, FL. Visit The Athena
Group at http://www.athena-group.com.
CONTACT:
Pat Rugg, VP Sales and Marketing
The Athena Group, Inc.
5522 NW 43rd St., Suite B
Gainesville, FL 32653
USA
Phone: 352.371.2567 ext. 110
Toll-free: 800.741.7440 ext. 110
Fax: 352.373.5182
Email: prugg@athena-group.com
Internet: http://www.athena-group.com™
or
http://www.fastdsp.com™
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