Samplify Systems Announces Next Generation Signal-Compression Technology,...( ...),Health

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Samplify Systems, Inc., a next generation mixed-signal semiconductor company, today launches Prism 3.0, the company's newest real-time signal compression algorithm for implementation on popular FPGA platforms and its award winning intelligent data converters. Prism 3.0 was developed to help solve transmission issues faced by high-data bandwidth signal processing applications, with numerous enhancements for wireless base station, computed tomography (CT), and medical ultrasound applications.

"With Prism 3.0, Samplify truly extends its leadership in signal compression technology," says Al Wegener, Samplify founder and CTO, "Prism 3.0 is the result of two years of engagements with customers in dozens of application areas, and will serve as the digital kernel foundation for Samplify's future semiconductor products."

Reduced Complexity and Latency

In most applications the value of compression is maximized the closer compression is to the analog domain and decompression is to the software domain. Among the enhancements in Prism 3.0 is a significant reduction in decompression complexity without sacrificing compression ratios. The Prism 3.0 decompression engine uses nearly half the FPGA logic resources than its predecessor. In addition, the encoding format has been optimized for software decoding, resulting in a 200 percent improvement in decompression performance on x86-based CPUs or graphics processing units (GPU). For example, a trend in medical imaging applications is to move more and more of the signal processing into the software domain. Yet in these systems, the speed of data acquisition hardware has outstripped the capacity of backplane technologies. With 3x the decompression performance on the back-end processor, Prism 3.0 eliminates these backplane bottlenecks between the data acquisition hardware an
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