BDTI Solution Certification™
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BDTI Solution Certification™As multimedia systems grow in complexity, system developers increasingly rely on vendors to provide “solutions”—combinations of hardware and software that together implement key multimedia functions such as audio and video compression and decompression. Vendors have responded by offering a growing number of such solutions. Unfortunately, this has created a new challenge for system developers: vendors’ claims about the performance of their solutions are difficult to interpret and often impossible to compare. Even with standards-based functions, there’s no standardization of performance claims. In reporting the performance of their solutions, each vendor may use different:
Worse, there’s no simple way to tell whether reported data is based on a solution that’s ready to be used in your product today—or on back-of-the-napkin guesstimates for a solution that doesn’t actually exist. To meet vendors’ and system designers’ need for comparable and credible performance data, BDTI has introduced the BDTI Solution Certification™. The BDTI Solution Certification is appropriate for vendors of chips, hardware IP, and software IP—any company that needs to provide prospects and customers with reliable, comparable, and credible data. Solution Certification for H.264 DecodingBDTI currently certifies H.264 decoding solutions. Future Solution Certification will support other standards and multimedia functions. For more information on BDTI’s Solution Certification™ click here. BDTI Solution Certification™ ProcessBDTI’s Solution Certification involves two phases: (1) a vendor configures an existing solution (such as a video decoder) in a manner compliant with BDTI’s specification and (2) BDTI certifies the performance of the solution. The Solution Certification process is applicable to a broad range of standards-based solutions, such as H.264 video decoders and AAC audio decoders. Contact BDTI to find out which solutions can be certified. SpecificationUnder license, BDTI provides a written specification with guidelines for configuring a multimedia solution (such as a decoder or encoder) for certification by BDTI. The specification defines:
CertificationOnce a vendor has configured, tested, and measured its solution in accordance with BDTI’s specification, BDTI carefully verifies the results by reviewing the configuration, validating functionality, and repeating the measurements taken by the vendor. As the basic certification service, BDTI repeats vendor measurements of processor loading, total program and data memory use, and cost. As an additional service, BDTI also measures energy consumption. If appropriate, BDTI certifies the performance of the solution. In order to facilitate certification, BDTI provides vendors with a template for reporting information about their solutions. Additional ServicesSeveral additional services are available from BDTI in conjunction with Solution Certification, including measurement and certification of energy consumption. A vendor may also engage BDTI to perform a detailed analysis of its solution. A BDTI analysis can highlight aspects of a solution that are not readily apparent from performance results alone. BDTI’s experienced engineers examine the performance of a solution in relation to the architecture of the solution. Such an analysis can reveal the strengths and weaknesses of a solution, providing valuable information for solution vendors’ engineering and marketing organizations. Licensing and CertificationFor information on fees for licensing and certification, to have your solution certified by BDTI, or to discuss how you can use Solution Certification to meet your needs, contact BDTI. |
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