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The digital home is becoming reality with the convergence of broadband network technology, the transition of all TV to digital, and the advent of interactive and high definition content. Along with the technology, products such as set top boxes, digital TV's, personal video recorders, digital DVD recorders, and game consoles are evolving in a borderless way. The common thread among all these products is the need for flexible, high performance multimedia and network processing that can adapt quickly to changes in market needs and industry standards. BCI's gCORE is uniquely positioned to provide a platform where functions such as video compression / decompression and networking can be enabled in software rather than hardware. This allows OEM's to adapt to market needs immediately unlike hardwired SoC solutions.

The digital office is becoming a place where multimedia presentations, and color brochures created in-house are replacing the old black and white handouts and drab reports of just a few years ago. Business is now about creativity and expression; this is the business multimedia market. Digital color multifunction peripherals allow printing, copying, and scanning in brilliant color at speeds exceeding a page a second. Projectors and displays are becoming networked so that conferences are now alive with multimedia content that can connect both locally or over the Internet, including VoIP enabled video conferencing.
BCI gCORE processors provide a platform that allows manufacturers of these networked multimedia devices for the office to exploit the high processing power required for media handling, with the stability and reliability inherent in a Linux based multi-processor system. The result is simple; products that meet the professional needs of creativity in the office.