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The company believes that this is the only commercially availableJPEG-LS IP core. This addition makes CAST's family of JPEG cores the most complete from any single vendor, featuring a mix of encoders, decoders, and codecs for the JPEG, lossless JPEG,JPEG-LS, and JPEG 2000 standards.

Most have been silicon-proven with multiple customers, in applications ranging from JPEG for ultrasound topographers andcellular phone chipsets to JPEG2000 for satellites and LJPEG in high-end digital SLR cameras.

Thislow-complexity algorithm is designed to efficiently compress continuous tone colour and greyscale images (ie photos) with lossless and near-lossless levels of quality.

The core itself offers a compact physical size and unusually high processingrate - up to 161Msample/s on an FPGA - enabling HDTV processing - and has automatic and programmable features that simplify system integration.

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