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Digital Cameras
Today's digital cameras perform a broad range of functions that require strong processing power. In addition to image capturing and compression, cameras must handle intense image processing and a long list of functions including display management, menu generation, battery management, connectivity support, and the list goes on. The list of demands is long and battery lifetime is critical.
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A large percentage of Digital Still Camera (DSC) devices today are MIPS-Based™. Samsung introduced the world's first HDMI-enabled digital camera based on MIPS. Zoran, Toshiba, NEC, Sunplus, LSI Logic and others supply the DSC market with MIPS-Based ICs. OEMs include Samsung, JVC, Pentax, Casio, Minolta and Fujifilm. Several digital camcorders also use MIPS-Based ICs.MIPS® Solutions
MIPS Pro Series® cores include the CorExtend® capability that allows system designers to extend the functionality of the MIPS architecture, allowing designers to define and add instructions that operate on data in the general-purpose registers in the same manner as standard MIPS instructions.While many digital cameras have used a combination of DSP and RISC cores for image processing, CorExtend can reduce the two cores down to one, saving die size and battery life. For those implementing JPEG baseline decoding fully in software, an application note is available that leverages programming tricks to reduce the cycle count of the publicly-available code from the Independent JPEG Group (www.ijg.org).
