Silicon Works adopts Hardent’s VESA DSC decoder IP

The growing trend for UHD displays in consumer electronics products brings new ASIC design challenges for electronics manufacturers, as high-throughput video needs to be carried between a device's components. Released in April 2014, the VESA DSC standard applies visually lossless video compression between the application processor and the display sub-system. This allows manufacturers to use current industry transport mechanisms, such as MIPI DSI and VESA DisplayPort, with higher resolution displays while decreasing transmission bandwidth by up to three times.

Hardent’s VESA DSC decoder and encoder IP cores are the first of their kind on the market and provide a ready-made solution for adopting the VESA DSC 1.1 standard.

“The visually lossless performance of VESA DSC enables us to deliver display resolutions beyond what was previously possible”, says DR Young Sun Na, Principal Research Engineer and Design Leader, Silicon Works. “Hardent’s DSC decoder IP provided us with a low-risk solution and a faster tape-out date”.

“We are pleased to have a market leader such as Silicon Works adopt our VESA DSC IP solution”, said Alain Legault, Vice President of IP products, Hardent. “Silicon Works’ successful adoption of our IP demonstrates how industry leaders can easily and reliably support the VESA DSC standard”.