Sigma Unveils Media Processor for Smart Media Devices

- Alert), said, "The SMP8672 provides the level of performance that OEMs need for building today's 3D-enabled media devices and IPTV hybrid systems. Featuring a high performance CPU, deep L2 cache, and powerful 3D accelerator, the SMP8672 significantly boosts HTML5 and JavaScript benchmarks that reflect the expected user experience with a growing list of OTT applications. Furthermore, with its small footprint and low power profile, the SMP8672 can be designed into the most aggressively sized packages while still delivering full performance."

The recently introduced software development kit, or SDK, from Sigma is also compatible with the SMP8672 product series. Rapid time-to-market porting of Hybrid STB middleware is possible using the perceptive novel porting layer, SAPI or Simple API introduced in the Sigma SDK. Sigma is expected to make the SMP8672 available by the middle of July, this year.

An assortment of reference deployments for OTT applications like Netflix and VUDU is possible with the latest SDK. Deployments are also possible with proprietary application frameworks for developing Webkit-HTML5 applications or Adobe (News - Alert) Air applications, thereby enhancing developer efficiency. A custom-designed high-end media jukebox experience is possible with the fixed-price XBMC middleware, which is completely compatible with the SMP8672, in collaboration with supplementary OTT plug-ins. Latest 3D user interface capabilities and upcoming applications are also supported by the SMP8672 with WebGL.

Sigma Designs, Inc. is a major provider of connected media platforms across the globe. The important semiconductor technologies, which act as the cornerstone for a majority of IPTV set-top boxes, connected media players, residential gateways and home control systems across the world, are designed and built by Sigma Designs.  

Edited by Brooke Neuman
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