Radvision, a provider of products and technologies for unified visual communications over IP and 3G networks, announced the selection of Freescale Semiconductor's high-performance MSC8144 multicore digital signal processor for use in its latest high-definition SCOPIA Elite 5000 Unified Communications Video Infrastructure Multiparty Conferencing Unit.

Radvision's (News - Alert) next-generation SCOPIA Elite 5000 Series is a solution for high-definition multiparty conferencing. Through this deal, the SCOPIA Elite platform will now utilize Freescale's MSC8144 DSP to deliver multi-channel 1080p processing, telepresence connectivity, dynamic resource allocation and individual video layouts per participant, yielding uncompromised high-definition support.

Freescale Semiconductor (News - Alert) specializes in embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets.

"Freescale's MSC8144 significantly improves our overall SCOPIA product-line efficiency by providing support for the latest video standards and resolutions, very high channel densities, throughput and increased system flexibility," Orly Nicklass, vice president of R&D for Radvision. "As a leading supplier in the video infrastructure market, Radvision is pleased to offer our customers products that leverage the performance and programmability of Freescale's industry-leading DSP technology."

Both the companies believe that Freescale's MSC8144 DSP is capable of enabling Radvision with high channel density, energy efficiency and form factor advantages. The MSC8144 combines four high-performance 1 GHz DSP cores based on SC3400 StarCore technology with 10 MB internal memory and high-speed interconnects such as Serial RapidIO (News - Alert) and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.

 "Radvision is recognized as a worldwide leader in videoconferencing technology and has helped make possible a never-before-achievable level of reliability and consistency within the videoconferencing environment," said Scott Aylor, director and general manager of DSP products for Freescale's Networking and Multimedia Group. "Videoconferencing technology is rapidly becoming more mainstream, and Freescale's investment in highly advanced DSP technologies is helping drive new levels of performance for video infrastructure applications."