Description

 

Aspex Semiconductor (Aspex) is a fabless semiconductor company developing high performance video compression technology for high definition video processing applications, based around our patented, software programmable Aspex Compression Engine (ACE) IP block. Aspex will supply ACE on a licence-only basis or can offer a complete SOC design service. The ACE core can be used to build an ASIC that in turn can be used, either as a single device or as multiple cascaded devices, to implement a family of high quality H.264, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoders, decoders and transcoders, supporting video resolutions up to and including1080p60.

Aspex has been working in the High Definition video compression market since 2006 when, together with leading software partners, Aspex developed complete board-level solutions based on it’s previous Linedancer device, for High Definition H.264 & MPEG2 video compression, where our Accelera PC plug-in cards are used by leading broadcast & post-production OEMs such as Sorenson Media and Digital Rapids.

Aspex is currently implementing ACE for a major customer in a standard 0.065u CMOS foundry (TSMC).

History

Aspex was spun out of London’s Brunel University in 1999/2000, capitalising on more than 450 

man-years of core technology development and IPR developed in a prior joint venture with the University.

Aspex is majority owned by its employees, with Spark Ventures plc holding a minority stake. The company is profitable on a run-rate basis.

Target Markets

Aspex’s has customers in the Professional Image Processing market, including segments such as:

•TV Broadcast & IPTV infrastructure

•Digital Content Creation, Post-Production & HD-DVD / Blu-Ray authoring

•Medical Imaging

•Machine Vision

Location

Aspex headquarters and product development is based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, around 30 miles west of London, UK.

Sales and customer support are provided from the UK .