Cinemo, a developer of embedded multimedia technologies, and Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe have entered into a technology partnership.
The agreement will enable Cinemo to optimise its automotive-grade multimedia solutions for its existing and planned Cortex System-on-Chip (SoC) ranges and add to Cinemo’s supported hardware list.
Cinemo’s embedded multimedia technologies are for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), consumer electronics and embedded industrial computing.
The ‘Emerald’ family is a SoC series combining ARM’s latest Cortex-A9 CPU core. According to Fujitsu, Cinemo’s Unified Media Player will be optimised to support this architecture, thereby offering frame-accurate and perfect lip-synchronised playback over a low-bandwidth network connecting multiple displays with built-in support for all popular audio and video formats, codecs, and containers.
Cinemo executive vice president Jim Corbett said Cinemo will optimise its solution to create the best multimedia experience for Fujitsu’s ‘Emerald’ platform.
This means creating the most robust and reliable solution with the lowest CPU usage possible so that Tier-One suppliers and car manufacturers can benefit from Cinemo’s and Fujitsu’s combined expertise and enjoy advanced multimedia on an advanced hardware platform.
Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe director graphic competence center Markus Mierse said, "We plan to demo the MB86R11 and MB86R12 SoCs belonging to the ‘Emerald’ family coupled with Cinemo’s Unified Media Player to Tier-Ones and car manufacturers starting in April 2011."
