Wintech Digital Systems Technology Corp today released the Video Communication Development Platform (VDP II), a combined hardware/software platform for developing IP-based video conference, videophone, IPTV and other IP-based video systems. The VDP II is based on Texas Instruments Incorporated's (TI) DaVinci technology. Wintech will exhibit VDP II at the Embedded System Conference in San Jose, California, from April 4 to April 6, in the TI's Third Party Pavilion.

TI's DaVinci technology is optimized for digital video systems and includes digital signal processor (DSP)-based SoCs, multimedia codecs, APIs, real-time OS, frameworks and development tools. DaVinci technology provides higher video quality and resolution, including D1, H.264, 25-30 FPS and also real-time application based on dual-core architecture.

The VDP II supports nearly all peripheral interfaces for customer applications, such as USB/VGA/RS232/ATA, H.323 and SIP communication stacks, and standard OS like Linux and WinCE. The platform also uses complementary TI analog technology, including the TVP5146 video decoder and AIC32 audio codec. The VDP II allows OEMs to customize their designs from codec to user interface to create different product families and price lines, shorten time- to-market and save development resources.

"The VDP II offers developers access to the latest innovative and high- performance digital video capabilities with minimum design investment. It provides developers with the tools necessary to create high resolution video communication applications," said David Dong, president, Wintech.