Claimed to be the most power-efficient family of DSPs for media gateways, high-definition video and wireless systems, the OCT2200 devices are from Octasic. The DSPs use the company's Opus DSP core architecture to enable system designers to achieve both very low power consumption and high levels of performance in the same device. Competitive devices are forced to choose between either low power or high performance. Devices based on the second generation of the core (Opus2) can deliver over 36GMAC/s with less than 55mW of power consumption/GMAC, under worst case process, voltage, and temperature conditions. Up to 24 of the cores, coupled with a set of I/O interfaces and an optional ARM core can be used in wireless applications such as basestations, with single chip femtocell, picocell and multi-chip macrocells. They can be used in wireline and wireless media gateways; IP PBXs; audio/video transcoding gateways; high-definition video conferencing and streaming; video surveillance digital video recorders and medical imaging. The first two members released are the OCT2224M for media processing and the OCT2224W for wireless baseband applications. The OCT2224M allows a complete encoding for two 1080p video streams simultaneously with no dedicated hardware acceleration. The OCT2224W can implement a multi-standard picocell that can provide LTE, WiMAX, HSPA+, EDGE, or any other commercial wireless standard.
