HMP Solution Drives Evolutionary Wireless Digital Photo Frames, Mobile Internet
Devices and Information Dashboards to Transform the way Media is Brought into
the Home
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
RMI Corporation, a leading provider of high-performance processors for
communication and media rich applications, and Triazz, a leading software
solutions provider for connected multimedia devices, announced their partnership
in developing a turnkey Home Media Player (HMP) solution. The Alchemy-based
turnkey HMP solution enables evolutionary wireless Digital Photo Frames and is
targeted at media-based applications such as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs),
Digital Signage, Information Dashboards and other home networking and consumer
devices.
The Linux-based Triazz application is built upon RMI`s ready-for-production,
cost-optimized, high performance Home Media Player reference design and is based
on the Alchemy Au1250 Processor, the first HMP Processor solution. The Au1250,
leverages high levels of integration and very low power to achieve performance
up to 700MHz. The Au1250 Processor also includes a best-in-class LCD controller
with four graphics planes with 32-bit αRGB, and a Media Acceleration Engine
(MAE) for D1 video decoding of a wide variety of formats including MPEG1/2/4,
WMV, Divx, Xvid, and H.264.
"By working with Triazz and by offering the turnkey HMP Solution, RMI is able to
continue driving the extension of the Digital Photo Frame and to make available
unique capabilities that will transform the way media is brought into the home,"
said Mike Wodopian, vice president and general manager, RMI.
The Triazz software solution seamlessly integrates into the home network Photo,
Audio and Video content from local memory devices, PCs and Media Servers and a
variety of content sources on the Internet with a uniform and intuitive user
interface. The HMP solution includes support for Internet based services like
weather, news, traffic, email, Picasa and Flickr photo sharing sites and RSS
feeds from various sources including FrameChannel and FrameIt. A wide range of
Internet radio and TV stations from all over the globe are also supported by the
Triazz software.
"Being part of this revolutionary solution is exciting," said Pratap Reddy,
president and chief executive officer, Triazz. "This system takes advantage of
our unique products and is able to amplify the value that our media-rich
solutions offer the consumer media markets for these next generation home
appliances."
RMI is engaged with leading ODMs including Winaccord, Action Electronics,
Perception Digital, Malata, and Top Eight to quickly and effectively customize
designs and to provide quick manufacturing turnaround for complete turnkey OEM
solutions. The Alchemy-based HMP reference design is available now and contains
all essential hardware functionality including an Atheros Wi-Fi solution, NAND
flash, DDR2 memory, IR, and media card interfaces for SD/MMC/MS/xD/CF/USB flash
stick.
About Triazz
Triazz is a Silicon Valley based company with headquarters in San Jose,
California. Triazz provides comprehensive software solutions for bringing rich
content to connected multi-media devices. Our Linux based software brings a high
quality user experience to products like Wireless Digital Photo Frames,
Networked TV, Digital Signage Displays and Connected Hand Held Devices. More
information can be found at http://www.triazz.com
About RMI
RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company providing High-Performance
Super System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC) Processor solutions for the Infrastructure,
Enterprise, and Consumer Media markets. Applications include Wireless,
Networking Security, Thin Clients, and Connected Multi-Media. RMI offers a broad
platform of advanced MIPS-compatible processor solutions with both 32/64-bit
architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to 1.3GHz. RMI is headquartered
in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations in Texas, France, India,
Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. More information about RMI can be
found on the company's website at www.RMICorp.com.
© Copyright 2009 RMI Corporation. All rights reserved. RMI, the RMI logo, Home
Media Player, Home Media Processor, HMP Processor, Alchemy, Alchemy-based,
Au1250, Media Acceleration Engine, SuperSoC, and the other trademarks named on
the RMI website are trademarks of RMI Corporation. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
RMI Corporation
D. Christopher Keil, 408-434-5700
Sr. Director, Marketing
ckeil@RMICorp.com
Copyright Business Wire 2009
