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posted on 06 March 2008 15:42

LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI), a leader in deep packet inspection silicon, today announced that it is supplying accelerator technology for Microsoft Silverlight. 

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web.  LSI offers capabilities to the Silverlight platform that result in shorter time-to-market for developers creating complex video applications for the online video, broadcast and High Definition DVD markets. LSI’s silicon components for Silverlight result in a high performance system for content developers and hardware OEMs.    

LSI has adapted its deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to create a deep frame inspection (DFI) capability.  In contrast to DPI which looks for viruses and intrusive code in packets, DFI examines each frame of video to calculate what has changed from the previous frame.  The result is a compressed video stream – up to 10 to 1 - which enables richer video formats such as high-definition to be streamed over the internet or corporate networks and saved efficiently on storage systems while still maintaining a high level of video quality.

Web developers now can design new applications that can efficiently include video content that can be merged with live data to create a layered application of multiple data types. Previously, it was time consuming to create these applications because of the long encoding time for video objects. LSI’s implementation of Silverlight turns the possible into the practical by accelerating the underlying Microsoft Windows Media codec while maintaining a high degree of video quality for standard or high definition output on a fully compliant, production ready, Windows VC-1-based codec SDK platform.

“The collaboration between LSI and Microsoft is strategic as exemplified by our charter membership in the Silverlight Partner Initiative” said Jim Wilson, Director of Engineering Programs at LSI. “Close involvement and long term interaction between Microsoft and LSI developers has been key to delivering LSI-enabled Silverlight products.  As more and more content aware applications are developed, LSI’s key technologies will be used to help deliver efficient storage, networking and video solutions on the Microsoft platform.”

“We are pleased to have LSI engineers working directly with our development teams to enable hardware acceleration for Silverlight,” said Brian Goldfarb, group product manager in the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp.

About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world’s best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.