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Mirics and NVIDIA bring software-based TV to more PC platforms
Innovative use of GPUs for signal processing enables broader range of PC platforms to receive global over-the-air digital TV
Sunnyvale, CA. – September 29th, 2009: Mirics today announces it has developed a global broadcast TV solution for NVIDIA® GPUs (graphics processing units). By leveraging the massively parallel NVIDIA CUDA™ architecture for the Mirics FlexiTV™ [...]
Using software modems to enable low-cost, converged wireless
Chet Babla of Mirics Semiconductor has published a technical paper on multistandard Broadcast receivers implemented with a Mirics FlexiTV RF front end plus x86 processing for the baseband.
They implemented this on a 2.6GHz dual core x86 processor. Benchmarking standard definition (SD) DVB-T required 25% of the CPU load. The media player decoding of the SD [...]