IP Video Phone for TMS32064x™

Overview

Ittiam's iPVP642 reference design offers a complete embedded software solution along with an application specific reference platform on TMS320DM642™ processor from TI.

It is a single processor solution offering high quality audio, video, telephony functions and includes all the necessary on-board components for consumer-ready video-communications.

Features

• Full duplex audio and video
• Hands-free speaker phone
• Multi-way personal video and audio conferencing
• Supports multiple video coding standards including H.263, MPEG4 and H.264
• The relatively high processing overhead of H.264 harnessed through optimal innovative implementation on the DSP including 4 patent pending ideas.
• Supports multiple video resolutions at natural video frame rate
• Supports wide range of speech coding standards covering both narrow and wide band scenarios
• Supports SIP
• Fully integrated hardware and software solution
• Reference designs with built-in speaker and microphone, TFT color LCD and CCD camera with audio and video connections to interface to external TV or camera
• IP Connectivity with Ethernet and Wireless LAN interfaces

Target applications

• Standalone high quality and high performance IP video phones for home and enterprise applications
• Embedded application integrated in larger high performance systems especially IP STB
• Quality video conferencing for small and medium businesses

Specification: Software

• Video Codec
• H.264 up to CIF resolution at 30 fps
• H.263 up to CIF resolution at 30 fps
• MPEG-4 up to VGA resolution at 25 fps
• Multi-way conferencing
• H.264: 3-way at CIF and 30 fps; 4-way at CIF and 20 fps
• H.263 and MPEG-4: 5-way at CIF and 30 fps
• Full Range of speech coders
• Narrow Band: G.711, G.726 ADPCM, G.728 LD-CELP, G.723.1A, G.729AB
• Wideband: G.722, G.722.1, G.722.2 (GSM AMR Wideband)
• Acoustic Echo Canceller: For speaker-phones with configurable echo tail lengths, rapid convergence, robust double talk detection
• Silence Suppression: Voice activity detection (VAD) / Comfort noise generation (CNG)
• Telephony Functions: DTMF tone generator and detector, call progress tones generator and detector
• Adaptive Jitter Buffer: Enhanced video and audio quality with various network conditions
• Network/Signaling Features
• Media Control - RTP / RTCP
• Network Control - TCP/IP/UDP, DHCP/FTP
• Integrated Framework with
• OS abstraction layer
• Hardware abstraction layer

Hardware Architecture

Specification: Hardware

• Processor: TMS320DM642™ from Texas Instruments
• Memory
• 4 Mb Flash
• 32 Mb SDRAM
• Audio/Video Interfaces
  • Speaker, Microphone, Line-In and Line-Out
  • Composite and S-Video In/Out ports
  • VGA LCD display (640x480)
  • CCD camera module with composite video
• Communication Interfaces
  • 10/100 Base T Ethernet port
  • Dual Card-Bus 8.0 sockets to support PCMCIA based WLAN 802.11b adapter, storage device
  • Single socket to support multiple storage devices like Smart Media, Memory Stick, SD Card and MM card
  • Dual USB master and one USB slave port (full speed)
• System Interfaces
• Keypad input (alphanumeric and scroll keys)
• IR port for remote control support
• IDE interface to Hard-disk
• Touch Screen support with LCD
• Dual UART port
• JTAG port
• 5V (4A) power input
• Expansion connectors for future use

Contact

• For further information contact mkt@ittiam.com

Ittiam iPVP642 reference design unit

Ittiam iPVP642 reference design hardware platform