Atsana Semiconductor (Programmable Multimedia Applications in Mobile Phones)
| "The Nucleus RTOS and middleware development environment provides Atsana and its partners a foundation to rapidly develop and deploy best-in-class multimedia video, imaging and graphics applications for mobile handsets. We adopted the royalty-free Nucleus RTOS as one of the solutions for our family of media processors because of its high performance, wide acceptance and features support targeted at mobile environments." --Vivek Chhabra, Head of Software Partnerships, Atsana Semiconductor Corp. Programmable Multimedia Applications in Mobile Phones
The J2211 media processor Atsana's J2211 media processor has been optimized for media-rich feature phone handset designs offering superior power efficiency coupled with high performance. The J2211 integrates a comprehensive set of interfaces to handle communication with common baseband processors and provides a low bill-of-materials cost solution controlling camera, LCD, media storage and peripherals. The J2211 media processor provides mobile phone developers a low power, highly integrated solution incorporating video camcorder, video playback, VOD, megapixel digital still camera, graphics and audio functions. Nucleus selected for integration with the J2211 processor Gone are the days of talk-only mobile phones. Now customers demand more and more complex features on their handsets. Aware of these needs, developers at Atsana wanted a real-time operating system (RTOS) that The Nucleus RTOS is ideal for mobile telephony and has been used in hundreds of handset designs to date. The reliability of the Nucleus RTOS, the breadth of middleware available and the high performance features have made the Nucleus RTOS the most widely deployed source code, royalty-free RTOS solution today. Atsana was recently acquired by Mtekvision |
Atsana Semiconductor Corp., headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, is a leader in the development of fully programmable, low-power consumption multimedia processors for wireless devices such as handsets, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and network cameras. The semiconductor company's Array Processing technology enables the creation of multimedia wireless devices that consume two to three times less power than solutions offered today.
had a proven record in the telephony industry and could accommodate a long list of intense multimedia features. Atsana developers agreed that the Nucleus RTOS fit those requirements.