Ambarella AmbaCast™ 8000 Platform Delivers New Capabilities for Video Infrastructure Applications
AmbaCast 8000 Enables Harmonic's New Ellipse® 3000 Video Contribution System
The AmbaCast 8000 SoC provides a flexible platform to increase the
quality and the density of video transcoders and video contribution
links. For transcoding applications, the SoC can decode and re-encode
multiple HD or SD streams into a variety of resolutions and bit-rates as
required for playback on smart-phones, tablets, and notebooks. The SoC's
twin Dual Core ARM® Cortex™-A9 CPUs provide the required performance for
encoding and transcoding multiple channels of audio, including support
for Dolby® Digital Plus. The SoC delivers the high quality, low
bit-rate, and low delay encoding required for video contribution systems
that transmit video from remote sources, such as satellite news
gathering units, to broadcast studios, or from broadcast studios to
uplink centers or cable head-ends. Harmonic's Ellipse® 3000, announced
at NAB 2013 in
"The AmbaCast 8000 codec flexibility and 10-bit support make it
well-suited for high quality contribution encoding applications," said
"Ambarella's integration of Dolby audio processing technologies on the AmbaCast 8000 will make it easier for encoding and transcoding professional solutions vendors to support Dolby Digital Plus in their products and will help make high quality surround sound delivery widely available across all media workflows -- broadcast, online, PCs, games, and mobile," said Jean-Christophe Morizur, Senior Director, Professional Solutions at Dolby Laboratories.
The AmbaCast 8000 SoC supports both the H.264 and MPEG-2 video standards and is capable of transcoding between the two. It enables exceptionally high quality video encoding, including both 4:2:2 and 10-bit video compression and with very low delay. The SoC is capable of simultaneously decoding and re-encoding four full HD channels, eight 720p HD channels or twenty standard resolution SD channels. It can encode video up to 4K or Ultra HD resolution. Fabricated in 32nm CMOS process, the AmbaCast 8000 enables systems with extremely low power consumption.
"With the introduction of the AmbaCast 8000,
Pricing and Availability
The AmbaCast 8000 SoC is currently sampling to qualified customers.
Pricing information can be obtained directly from
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