Fujitsu and Sigma Designs Announce Wireless HDAV Technology Collaboration

(Business News & Technology News, 3 Jan 2008)

Sigma Designs and Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc. will collaborate to deliver Wireless HDAV technology solutions for consumer electronics manufacturers serving the High-Definition (HD), A/V, cable-replacement market. Both companies will demonstrate Wireless HDAV reference designs at the International CES in Las Vegas, January 7-9.

Sigma's Wireless HDAV streaming is a technology for transporting HD multimedia using standard-based encoding technologies over Ultra-WideBand (UWB) to replace high definition audio/video cables. Sigma's Wireless HDAV reference designs using the Fujitsu H.264-compliant CODEC can enable developers of home networking systems to eliminate cables between a television and set-top box or High-Definition DVD player using wireless HDAV, the first technology solution to support both the H.264 format and UWB based on the WiMedia(R) standard. Wireless HDAV streams high-definition content from device to device at distances up to 10 meters.

The wireless solution combines the Fujitsu H.264-compliant MB86H51 CODEC with Sigma Designs' SMP8634 Secure Media Processor decoder and UWB Windeo chipset, the only UWB chipset that uses Intelligent Array Radio (IAR) technology. IAR ensures the highest reliability in wireless connections between devices and also delivers through-wall and range extension capabilities. Using the MB86H51 to compress raw video allows wireless HD video streaming without compromising visual quality.

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