Ambric, Inc. Semiconductor Company - Documentation Library

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Documentation Library

The following documentation supports Ambric's Silicon Devices, Design Tools, Development Boards, Video Codecs, Architecture and Applications.

Corporate

Document	Description	Format
Corporate Fact Sheet	Ambric company overview
Testimonials	Customer testimonials
Executive Biographies	Biographies of the Ambric executive team

Massively Parallel Processing Arrays

Document	Description	Format
Technology Overview	Massively Parallel Processing Arrays (MPPAs) Overview
Embedded Products	Hardware, software and development tools
Microprocessor Report	Ambric's New Parallel Processor — Globally Asynchronous Architecture Eases Parallel Programming
Rapid Media Processing (RMP) Platform	RMP is an integrated hardware and software platform that enables the development of rich media processing solutions	Registration Required
Am2000 Family	Family of Massively Parallel Processing Arrays	Registration Required
aDesigner Tools	Design tools for the Am2000 family of silicon devices	Registration Required

Development Boards and Reference Designs

Document	Description	Format
Am2045 IDB	Development board for embedded system prototyping	Registration Required
Am2045 GT	Video reference platform for OEMs	Registration Required
Am2045 GT2-SDI	Development board that supports ingest, playout and file based video processing encode and decode operations	Registration Required

Video Codecs

Document	Description	Format
AVC-Intra	AVC-Intra is an intra-frame HD video codec for professional acquisition, post-production and archival uses	Registration Required
VC-3 (SMPTE version of DNxHD)	VC-3 is the SMPTE standard format of DNxHD which Avid contributed to SMPTE. It is a high-definition video NLE and post-production, intra-frame codec engineered for multi-generation compositing	Registration Required
DVCPRO HD	Panasonic created the DVCPRO family of video codecs for professional acquisition and post-production	Registration Required
H.264	H.264 is the new dominant standard for video compression used in a wide variety of markets and applications, such as broadcast, Blu-ray authoring, internet video , IPTV, videoconferencing and surveillance	Registration Required
MPEG-2	MPEG-2 is a video codec standard that is widely deployed in broadcast distribution, as well as camera formats such as HDV and Sony XDCAM formats	Registration Required
JPEG 2000	JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard used in a variety of markets that need intra- frame quality with lossy and/or lossless compression	Registration Required
Pre/Post Processing Filters	Ambric enables rapid time-to-market for developing proprietary video filters such as advanced de-interlacing, de-noising, scaling, standards frame-rate conversion, image-stabilization, color-correction, de-mosaicing and other filters. Motion-based filters are especially efficient on Ambric devices.	Registration Required

White Papers

Document	Description	Format
High-Performance Embedded Apps	This paper discusses how MPPAs can be used to accelerate high-performance embedded system applications (application example: JPEG)	Registration Required
Multicore and Massively Parallel Platforms	Multicore and Massively Parallel Platforms and Moore's Law Scalability	Registration Required
Structural Object Programming Model	A Structural Object Programming Model, Architecture, Chip and Tools for Reconfigurable Computing	Registration Required
Synchronization Through Communication	Synchronization Through Communication in a Massively Parallel Processor Array	Registration Required
Medical CT	This paper describes an implementation reconstructing a 512x512 image acquired by a scanner with a 1024 element linear detector that acquires 1024 projections.	Registration Required
Medical Ultrasound	This paper gives a brief overview of a medical ultrasound system	Registration Required

Technical Documentation

Document	Description	Format
1024 FFT	The FFT1024 library object described in this document implements a fixed-point, forward/inverse, 1024-point, complex FFT of a 1024-size input array	Registration Required
32 bit 1024 FFT	The ComplexFFT32 library object described in this document implements a fixed-point, forward/inverse, 1024-point, radix-4, complex FFT of a 1024-size array.	Registration Required
Cyclic Redundancy Check Generator	The CRCGenerator library object described in this document generates a cyclic redundancy check for a given data packet	Registration Required
Matrix Multiplication	This library object implements a fixed-point matrix multiplier	Registration Required
2D Convolution Filter	Implementation of a 2D convolution object running on the Ambric Am2000 family of processors	Registration Required
Medical Ultrasound	Solution note that walks through a reference design of a generic ultrasound beamforming application	Registration Required

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