Designed to have an extremely tiny footprint in FPGA/ASIC fabric, it is nevertheless also powerful in software applications for real-time operation. At present, images and video are transported and stored uncompressed into many systems such as cameras, video servers, displays, recorders or mobile devices. However, this revolutionary compression technology has been conceived for use as a mezzanine compression format.

TICO can be utilized as a smart upgrade path to manage HD and higher resolution (4K, 8K…) workflows and frame rates. TICO assures visual quality using a 2:1 to 4:1 compression ratio, but keeps power and bandwidth at a reasonable budget. On top of this, its selectable latency down to as little as 1 pixel line ensures absolute real-time and instant operation. The main highlights of the TICO compression technology include...

• Visually Lossless compression quality between 2:1 and 4:1
• Persistent and Robust: Indistinguishable image loss over multiple generations
• Fixed Latency: down to microseconds – single pixel line (selectable from 1 to x)
• Small complexity and ultra-compact codec: easy to implement in low-cost chips (FPGA/ASIC). Limited internal memory - no external memory required
• Powerful , Real-time or faster than real-time in CPU
• Compatible with different resolutions, from mobile to 4K/8K UHDTV, via multiple traditional transport schemes. Support of 4:2:2/4:4:4 formats

Designed to be a standard for industry-wide support: TICO compression technology will be available on multiple software and hardware technologies. Code, hardware IP-cores and software libraries can be licensed from intoPIX.

intoPIX welcomes all to their booth (10.D31g) and at the Altera booth (10.A10) at IBC 2013 (September 13-17) to discover the new TICO compression and enjoy the first technology demos.