2025-08-21 – Chips&Media is announcing that CFrame60 will be delivered to market as an independent product; new HW core based on compression/decompression technology to contribute performance, DRAM bandwidth, and power efficiency within various multimedia applications.
Key notes:
- Significant DRAM bandwidth reduction between IP modules within imaging application
- Lossless as well as lossy, with no visual quality impact, compression/decompression
- Benefits in performance as well as bandwidth and power efficiency
- Proven technology, years of commercialization as key component in WAVE multi-CODEC
CFrame60, the independent HW IP, for DRAM bandwidth reduction to improve performance and power efficiency, is now in Chips&Media’s roadmap for the commercialization. This decision is to expand the benefit of CFrame60 technology from IP level to application level.
DRAM bandwidth is a well-known issue that impacts performance and power in multi-media applications. In other words, high DRAM bandwidth that hurts the performance and power consumption is usually received as a disadvantage of HW platform, even at end device.
Chips&Media has resolved this problem by advanced compression/decompression technology and applied it to WAVE series, the legendary HW video CODEC IP from Chips&Media, many years. As one of key components, CFrame60 contributes WAVE series by high performance as well as low power consumption through significant DRAM bandwidth reduction. To enable the same benefit even for data communication over DRAM between various IP modules in multimedia applications, CFrame60 is now available as an independent HW with new and re-designed compression/decompression technologies.
A summary of key features of CFrame60 as independent HW IP is as below.
| Feature | Description |
| Performance | 4K60@500Mhz, by singe core |
| Encoding order | Picture raster order |
| Decoding order | Picture/tile raster order |
| Tile | Tile mode for the video IP. – Column tile only |
| Format | YUV400/420/422/444 Optional: RGB and Bayer (RGGB, BGGR, GRBG, GBRG) |
| Bit-depth | 8-, 10-, 12-, 14-, 16-bits |
| DRAM interface | 128bit AXI4 |
| Direct interface | Valid/ready direct (on-the-fly) I/F |
| DRAM-less mode | Ten of kbyte of SRAM |
| Ultra-low-delay mode | 1~2 line delay from the first input to the first output |
| Multi-core | 8K30/60, by dual/quad core |
Considering the increase of resolution such as 4K, 8K, and even 12K in imaging applications, especially in high-end edge devices, Chips&Media expects CFrame60 as independent HW IP will deliver more noticeable benefits. Currently, CFrame60 is being actively discussed with several key SoC providers in north America for its customization based on specific use-cases and interfaces.
About Chips&Media, Inc.
Chips&Media is a multimedia IP leader offering HW video codec IP, image processing NPU, lossless/lossy frame buffer compression IP & others. Since 2003, Chips&Media has exclusively focused on the HW video codec IP industry. It has powered over 3,000,000,000 units in the market, adopted by more than 150 semiconductor companies. Chips&Media’s video codec IP supports all major and legacy formats from 1080p up to 8K 120fps, including HEVC/H.265, AVC/H.264, AV1, VP9, APV, VVC, JPEG & others. The recent introduction of our image processing NPU IP is transforming Chips&Media into a premium multimedia IP provider. It is custom NPU designed to work for imaging application at high-quality and high-resolution in edge devices. For more information, please visit our website at www.chipsnmedia.com
