The QL303 and QL305 full HD (high-definition) H.264 codecs support baseline, main, and high profiles of the H.264 standard for resolutions ranging from 320×240-pixel QVGA to 1920×1080-pixel HD. The codecs provide full HD H.264 encoding using less than 275 nW of power. Features include an on-chip DSP; a JPEG compression/decompression engine allowing simultaneous still-frame processing; and an ARM core for audio/visual synchronization, bit-stream packetization, and peripheral-interface management. The QL305 also provides additional peripheral interfaces, suiting communication and computing platforms. The QL303 and QL305 HD codecs cost $20 and $24 (10,000), respectively.

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