APAX Application Acceleration by Samplify

Product Description

Samplify's APAX™ technology is a universal encoder for multimedia and numerical data which solves memory, storage, and I/O bottlenecks on SoCs, mobile processors, CPUs, and GPUs.

Applications:

• Image sensor acquisition: APAX™ reduces memory bandwidth by 80% for Bayer matrix pixel data at depths up to 16 bits from next generation image sensors
• Motion estimation: APAX™ encodes reference frames for motion estimation during H.264/HEVC encoding by 75%
• Video decoding: APAX™ can operate on reference frames inside the H.264 video decoding algorithm, reducing memory bandwidth by 75% without impacting video quality.
• 3D Graphics: APAX™ encodes both vertices and textures with equivalent performance as ASTC
• Numerical data sets:  For compute-intensive markets such as HPC, APAX™ shatters the memory wall by encoding numerical data sets, and data models by 75%

Features:

• Supports any numerical or multimedia data type:  int/uint 8/16/32, float, RGB/YUV/RGBA/YUVA, Bayer matrix
• High throughput encoding:  2.4 GB/sec per instance
• Multi-stream, thread-safe:  APAX™ encoding and decoding can switch between encoding contexts on a block by block basis
• Small size:  <0.08 mm² in TSMC 28 nm HPM
• Easy SoC integration with 32-bit AXI interface
• Software driver for Linux (Android, Windows Phone/RT, QNX upon request)

APAX Application Acceleration

Market Segment(s)

• Embedded
• Enterprise
• Mobile
• Mobile Computing

Target Platform(s)

• Android
• Linux
• QNX
• Windows Mobile

Companion Processor(s)

• DSP
• Flash
• I/O
• Multimedia

ARM Processor(s)

• Cortex-A15
• Cortex-A5
• Cortex-A50
• Cortex-A53
• Cortex-A57
• Cortex-A8
• Cortex-A9
• Cortex-R5
• Cortex-R7
• ARMv7
• ARMv8
• Mali55

System IP

• Interconnect Fabric
• Level 2 Cache Controller
• Memory Controller