Campbell, CA — (press release excerpt) — Equator Technologies Inc. today announced Embedded Linux support for its Broadband Signal Processor (BSP) chip family. The high performance and low power consumption of the software-programmable BSP chip family is now paired with the accessibility and flexibility of Linux.

The company's family of BSP chips is a unique, fully functional, software-programmable system-on-a-chip solution designed for the development of platforms for demanding video applications — from “Pixels to Packets.” Recognized for delivering unprecedented levels of video processing power, Equator's technology has been adopted by more than 120 customers in a variety of video-centric market segments such as digital media, video security and surveillance, digital communications, digital imaging and telematics. At ESC, Equator will demonstrate several applications for these market segments, including low bit-rate video-on-demand (VOD), personal video recorder (PVR), object tracking capability for video security cameras, and an MPEG-4 media player.

“We are committed to providing our customers with the industry's most widely used operating systems. By providing a Linux option, Equator is enabling our customers to benefit from the lower system and application costs of open source,” said Dr. Avi Katz, president and CEO, Equator Technologies. “Linux support opens up new market segments for our customers and gives them a head start in creating new products quickly as they can easily migrate their application base on top of our Linux implementation. The value of our Linux offering is in perfect harmony with our strategy to bring costs down . . .”

Equator's Embedded Linux solution has a small footprint and frees up additional memory resources for supplementary applications and functions — reducing overall system costs, while maintaining sufficient processing power for other tasks. These characteristics make the solution ideal for low power consumption for low cost consumer electronics and high-end professional video equipment, which requires increased video processing speed and performance.

General availability will be late Q2 2002.

 
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