Devlopment kit from CEVA for creating software for HD media processing

Media processor IP provider CEVA has released new application developer kit for developing software modules for the CEVA's HD digital media-signal-processing processor IP cores. This application developer kit allows developers to quickly develop modules which are less power consuming and works with low memory bandwidth. The CEVA's application developer kit features a standard library of more than 600 programming functions for computer vision processing based on openCV and fully optimised for CEVA-MM3000 processor IP platforms. CEVA says the standard library named CEVA-CV allows developers to use the pre-optimised standard open CV kernels for the target application. The new video stabilizing software module released today has leveraged some of the functions in this developer kit which includes Harris Corner, KLT feature detection, RANSAC, Kalman and Affine Transform. The developer kit features a software tool called SmartFrame to handle all of the system resource requirements, including data transfers, DMA transactions and the execution of kernels, thereby abstracting the system architecture and automating frame handling for the application developer. The SmartFrame tool also supports kernel tunneling, whereby multiple functions can be linked together, minimizing memory bandwidth and overall system power consumption. The kit is provided with DSP task management and...