Zenverge Announces Immediate Availability of Industry Leading Transcoder ICs

Multi-format Transcoder/Encoder/Decoder Architecture Offers Highest
Performance, Most Comprehensive Solution

CUPERTINO, Calif., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenverge, a leader in advanced media
ICs, announced today the immediate availability of its ZN200 and ZN100 classes
of transcoder ICs.

By delivering unmatched performance, quality, and breadth of features at the
lowest BOM cost, the ZN200 and ZN100 enable a new range of applications and
services previously not feasible. Each product class promises to open up new
revenue streams for operators and manufacturers worldwide.

"We're seeing a major shift in the way consumers access, store, share and
enjoy their entertainment," said Zenverge CEO Amir Mobini. "With the
unprecedented capabilities Zenverge provides today, we are giving the
operators, their box manufacturers and CE OEMs the tools they need to take
full advantage of these trends and monetize a range of new applications and
services while reducing system costs."

Groundbreaking Applications
Capable of supporting up to 4x HD performance, the ZN200 class of media ICs
combines a wide range of encoding, decoding and transcoding capabilities with
graphics, DRM, and a powerful host processor.

Products in this family offer a number of industry-leading features including:
-- Multi-format, HD to HD transcode and transrate capability at up to 4
simultaneous real-time HD MPEG2 or high-profile H.264 streams or up to
10X faster than real-time for HD to portables including cell phones,
iPhones and iPods, PSPs, and Windows Mobile devices
-- RemoteGUIDE© server-based graphics and RemoteCRUISE© server-based
smooth trickmodes for up to 4 channels of HD
-- Multi-format, full-duplex encode at up to 2 streams of HD and 8
channels
of SD
-- Fully programmable high-speed TransDRM© engine with support for all
popular formats including Multi-2, Marlin, Safia, DTCP, WMDRM
-- Fully programmable audio transcode supporting all popular audio
formats
-- Host application and network stack processing at up to 2500 DMIPS
-- Dual 1080p60 HP H.264 decode for 3D playback with MVC

-- Many IO interfaces including PCI, PCIe, USB 2.0 OTG, SPI, multiple TS
and HD/SD pixel ports as well as support for both DDR2 and DDR3

With this unprecedented set of features and capabilities, the ZN200 class
enables a wide variety of groundbreaking applications including:
-- Bitrate reduction from up to 4 HD tuners for much more recording time
on
any storage device in DVRs, HDTVs, and Blu-ray players
-- Guaranteed Video Quality of Service (VQoS) with extremely low latency
over wireless and wired home networks such as WiFi, HPNA, Powerline,
ENet and MoCA for up to 24 independent displays
-- Low-cost upgrade of MPEG2 STBs for staged operator plant upgrades to
H.264 without full replacement of millions of installed boxes
-- Simple adapter for STBs to enable high-speed distribution of HD DVR
content to portable devices and cell phones
-- Single box whole-home HD DVR, NAS or Media Server with support for
existing installed base of networked displays such as digital picture
frames and portable devices
-- PC TV, capture and DVR with high-speed editing capabilities
-- High density transcoding, and encoding at low-power for professional
headend and network equipment including adaptive bitrate streaming
support

-- 3D playback in STBs, TVs and Blu-ray players as well as distribution
equipment

Zenverge's ZN100 class shares many of the same features found on the ZN200
with a performance of up to 2 HD transcodes. These devices can be configured
as either embedded or USB bus-powered secure media co-processors. The ZN100
class is designed to support lower BOM cost for applications where the full
performance of the ZN200 class is not required.

About Zenverge
Founded in 2005, Zenverge is a fabless semiconductor company devoted to
accelerating consumer access to next generation digital content and services.
The company is a leading developer of Advanced Media ICs built around the
patented ZEN architecture, a core technology for next generation digital media
devices. The company is based in Cupertino, California. For more information
please visit the company website: www.zenverge.com.

SOURCE Zenverge

Afsoun Mobini of Zenverge, +1-408-844-4774, afsoun.mobini@zenverge.com; or
Matthew Quint of Quint PR, +1-650-599-9450, mquint@quintpr.com, for Zenverge