Amphion Semiconductor, Ltd.

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Overview

Amphion Semiconductor, Ltd. formerly (Integrated Silicon Systems), is the leading supplier of application-specific virtual components (ASVCs) for multimedia and communictions System-on-a-Chip (SoC), ASIC, and FPGA. Amphion delivers video/image compression, audio/speech compression, and channel coding solutions for consumer and communications applications.

Using proprietary techniques for direct-mapped implementations of digital signal processing functions and algorithms in hardware, Amphion delivers solutions that realize 10X to 1000X improvements in performance compared to conventional implementations using software-programmable DSP microprocessors.


AllianceCORE Products

Click here to list all AllianceCORE products available from Amphion Semiconductor. Adobe Acrobat versions of the datasheets for these can be viewed or downloaded from the resulting search entries. For information about pricing contact Amphion directly.


Additional Areas of Technical Expertise

The following table of products shows other areas of Amphion's technical expertise. Xilinx and Amphion are in the process of evaluating these to determine which are suitable as AllianceCORE products. If you have a need for a specific product then contact Amphion for information or availability. 

Product Functional Description Gates
Multimedia, Communications, DSP Functions, DSP Operators
JPEG High performance JPEG encoder, decoder, and codec
FFT High performance FFTs in 16, 64 and 256 point formats 50,000(1)
DCT DCT, IDCT and combined DCT/IDCT blocks for 8x8 2D DCT operation 45,000(1)
FIR filter library A comprehensive FIR filter capability to produce highly customized, high performance FIR filters 16,000(1)
IIR filter library A comprehensive IIR filter library for custom IIR filters 12,000(1)
Adaptive filters Including LMS filter and custom adaptive filtering 9,000(1)
Image processing library High performance front-end image processing functions including edge detectors and image enhancement filters 5,000(1)
Rank order filters 1-D and 2-D variants including programmable filters and median filters 6,000(1)
Arithmetic operators

All of the following are available in fixed and floating point formats: 

  • multiplier 
  • dividers 
  • square root operators 
  • adder 
  • data format converter 
Notes:

(1) 

Gate counts provided are for an example design from the particular core family and are for reference purposes only. Contact Amphion for more information.

Contact Amphion Semiconductor

Amphion Semiconductor, Inc.
2001 Gateway Place, Suite 130
San Jose, CA 95110 USA.
Phone: (408) 441-1248
Fax: (408) 441-1239
E-mail: info@amphion.com
URL: www.amphion.com

Amphion Semiconductor, Ltd.
50 Malone Rd
Belfast BT9 5BS
Northern Ireland , UK.
Phone :+44 28 9050-4000
Fax: +44 28 9050-4001
E-mail: info@amphion.com
URL: www.amphion.com

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