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As mobile phones continue to grow in popularity, so does the demand for advanced multimedia processing. CogniVue has developed a highly integrated mobile multimedia product family for MtekVision Co Ltd called Maple. The Maple product line consists of a programmable high-performance parallel processing engine for multimedia called APEX™, a comprehensive flexible software framework and platform, and extensive IO interfaces enabling Maple processors to handle compute-intensive multimedia applications including:
- Multi-standard video encoding and decoding
- Still image capture
- Audio encoding and decoding
- GPS demodulation
- DVB-H/T mobile TV with picture-in-picture
- Image and video editing
- 2D/3D graphics processing
Maple processors can be configured to suit a multitude of customer platforms. In the case of host/slave systems, the Maple processor may be configured as a slave processor to a host device such as a baseband processor in a mobile handset. Alternately, if configured as an application processor for a smart phone, the Maple device acts as a master to the baseband processor in the system.
| Host/Slave Based Architecture - Maple Master Mode | Host/Slave Based Architecture - Maple Slave Mode |
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For these mobile phone applications, a fully-programmable software suite including an extensive range of video, audio and still image codecs is available. A multitude of peripherals are supported including Host Processor Interface (HPI) for communication with the baseband processor, Â camera sensor, TV Out for display to a television, display interface for rendering images and video to the cell phone display. In addition, system memory is stacked ensuring a smallest solution footprint.
Maple processors are found in over 10 million mobile phones sold world-wide. Whether a feature phone such as a camera phone or a music phone, or a mobile phone with mainstream multimedia applications such as GPS and mobile TV, the CogniVue Maple product line of processors have provided MtekVision with  best-in-class solutions for high-performance, small footprint, low power, programmable multimedia processing.
For more information about CogniVue Mobile Phone solutions, call +1.819.595.4999 or email sales@cognivue.com.
