Image Compression IP
Alma Technologies offers the broadest image compression IP portfolio for FPGA and ASIC designs, consisting of carefully crafted and highly configurable JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-LS and CCSDS IP cores that offer maximum image quality and performance, while maintaining ease-of-use and simplicity during the integration.
Product Selection Matrix
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| Numerically lossless compression | |
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| Lossy compression efficiency | very good | − | − | excellent | excellent | visually lossless |
| Lossless compression efficiency | − | good | excellent | excellent | excellent | − |
| Maximum bits per sample | 8/12 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
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| Rate control |  |
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| Multiple quality layers | |
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| Standalone CPU-less operation | |
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| Requires external memory² | no | no | no | yes | no | no |
| Silicon requirements | low | very low | low | high | medium | medium |
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| Available for Altera FPGAs | |
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| Available for AMD-Xilinx FPGAs | |
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| Available for Efinix FPGAs | |
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| Available for Lattice FPGAs | |
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| Available for Microchip FPGAs | |
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Notes :
¹ Near-lossless function(s) available.
² Typical use case.
: Supported. : Optional. : Not Supported.
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