Barco and Spinnaker Systems announce JPEG 2000 partnership for Japanese market
Kortrijk, Belgium --- April 10, 2008 --- Barco Silex, Barco's center of competence for electronic design services and embedded video coding, and Spinnaker Systems Inc. today announced a strategic partnership in the Japanese market for sales, marketing and support of the Barco Silex’ JPEG 2000 solutions.
“As a leading design house specialized in video coding since 1991, we understand the importance of strong and long-term partnerships to deliver complete, high-quality and tailored solutions. That’s why we are so excited to work closely with Spinnaker Systems, a leading representative of semiconductor intellectual property in Japan,” said Frédéric Devisch, Director Sales & Marketing of Barco Silex. “Spinnaker Systems’ undisputed excellence in sales and technical support strengthens/confirms our commitment to provide customers the highest quality JPEG 2000 solutions with the most excellent support.
"We are very pleased to form a partnership with Barco Silex," said Toru Katagiri, the president of Spinnaker. "Barco Silex’ has a complete set of high-performance JPEG 2000 solutions: IP cores for ASIC and FPGA, reference designs, ready-to-use plug-in boards with drivers and software development kit. Their solutions are able to encode and decode untiled images at HD resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 and DCI formats up to 4K, without compromise on quality. Moreover, their solid reputation in video coding and electronic design since many years offers our customers the best guarantee for reliable and long-term solutions with minimized obsolescence risk.
About Spinnaker
Founded in 1995, Spinnaker Systems is a provider of leading edge IP design licenses and semiconductors, and has the engineering/consulting ability to support System Level Integration (SLI). Spinnaker has vast experience in the sales and support of various EDA tools, IPs and semiconductors. Since 2000, Spinnaker has been 100% subsidiary of PALTEK Corp. (JASDAQ: 7587). Spinnaker Systems is based at Shin-Yokohama Square Bldg., Shin-Yokohama, Kouhoku-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan. For more information, see the website: www.spinnaker.co.jp.
Spinnaker Systems Inc.
IP Business Dept.
+81-45-478-3803
pr@spinnaker.co.jp
About Barco
Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco (Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with about 3600 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of euro 747 million in 2007.
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For more information, please contact
Frédéric
Devisch
Director Sales & Marketing Barco Silex
Barco
Telephone
+32 475 72 45 49
frederic.devisch@barco.com
