MCW currently works in a number compute intense application areas such as HEVC, VP9, OpenCV, imaging, video, codecs, H.264, H.265, broadcast video, ADAS. Languages include OpenCL, CUDA, RenderScript, C/C++, Assembly (Intel, ARM) Platforms supported include Intel, AMD, ARM, Qualcomm, Imagination, across CPU, GPU and DSP for these platforms. A deep bench in LLVM technology with significant compiler optimization is also available for licensing and customization.

2. Global Team
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Largest Independent OpenCL Team
Founded in 2008
225 Strong and Growing
High Ratio of PhDs, Masters
Chennai
St. Louis
Parallel Processing Leaders
Champaign
Sunnyvale
Changchun
Beijing
Dr. Wen Mei-Hwu, MCW CTO and PI for the UIUC Blue
Waters Supercomputer accepts the Second Annual
Achievement Award at GTC 2013
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3. Industry Leadership
 Tools leadership role on HSA Foundation
 Khronos Contributor Member
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Strategic Relationship with University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Partnerships with CPU/GPU/FPGA Vendors
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4. Capabilities
COMPLETE
TOOLS
Exploration
Analysis
Performance
Tuning
Source-to-Source
Translation
Renderscript
WORLD CLASS
LEADING
R&D TEAM
ALGORITHMS
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES
Image
Processing
Client-specific
Video Processing
Customized
Video
Transcoding
Cryptography
Solutions
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5. Professional Services
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Parallel Processing tools
• Complete OpenCL stack for AMD Fusion
• C++ AMP
• Renderscript
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Clients globally have used MulticoreWare to maximize
performance and portability of their software
Video Encoding
Video Processing
• Scaling, color space conversion
• Resizing and rate-conversion
• De-interlacing and re-interlacing
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Video Game Engine Acceleration
Image Processing
• Semiconductor wafer defect inspection
• Raster Image Processor engine parallelization
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Bioinformatics
• Accelerated BLAST algorithm for gene
sequencing
• 3500X faster than NIH reference model
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6. Domain Expertise
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Video Processing
Video Transcoding
Video Game Engines
Image Processing
Medical Imaging
Seismic data analysis
Compression
Encryption
Fluid Dynamics
 Compilers (LLVM)
 Device drivers
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7. Platform Expertise
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Video and Imaging implementations done across many platforms
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Experience across heterogeneous compute platforms
• Mobile device platforms to workstations and cloud based platforms
• x86 Assembly Code optimization
• ARM Mali and NEON optimization
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Experience across heterogeneous programming models
• CUDA
• OpenCL
• Renderscript
• C++AMP
• MARE
• HSA
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8. Video Expertise
 X264 – Open Source H.264 Encoder accelerated for Telestream’s Vantage
Encoder
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- MulticoreWare’s H.265 Encoder
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- MulticoreWare’s H.265 Decoder
 VP9 Acceleration
 Accelerated Video Processing Library – Super – resolution, image
stabilization, detection and recognition
 Handbrake
 FFMPEG
 VLC
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9. HEVC – Commercially Supported Open Source
 Compute intensive
• Larger block size 64x64 Vs 16x16 in H.264
• More transform sizes
• New Intra prediction modes
• Quad tree structure in processing Coding Unit(CU)
• Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) filter in addition to deblocking filter
 New ideas to facilitate parallel processing of data – Tiles, WPP
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10. Renderscript
 MCW
• Developed Renderscript infrastructure for ARM Mali
• Developed 2 marquee APKs using ARM A15 & Mali
 Photo processing 2-15x speedup over ARM core
 Video transcoder with filtering and motion stabilization
 Working closely with Google
• Enabling VP9 video codec
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11. Image Processing Expertise
 Cinema DNG (debayering, noise reduction, etc.)
 GIMP/GEGL – open source PhotoShop alternative
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MCW parallelized GIMP
Accelerated kernels for color space conversion
Improved calling and data transfer mode between GIMP and GEGL
Streamlined redundant operations for improved efficiency of image processing
More than 20 algorithms (e.g. image scaling, Brightness/contrast control, gamma correction,
edge enhancement, color correction, etc.) implemented
 JPEG in browser
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Implemented accelerated libjpeg-turbo for JPEG decoding
Integration of libjpeg-turbo in Chromium.
Implementation of parallel progressive mode JPEG decoding
Implementation of Huffman decoding algorithm
 OpenCV
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Performance optimized and author of many functions
Key contributor
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12. OpenCV Functions in OpenCL
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lut
Exp
Log
Add
Mul
Div
Absdiff
CartToPolar
PolarToCart
magnitude
Transpose
Flip
minMax
minMaxLoc
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Sum
countNonZero
Phase
bitwise_and
bitwise_not
compare
pow
MagnitudeSqr
AddWeighted
blend
BruteForceMatcher
StereoMatchBM
Canny
cvtColor
Blur
Laplacian
Erode
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Sobel
Scharr
GaussianBlur
filter2D
gemm
Haar
HOG
equalizeHist
CopyMakeBorder
cornerMinEigenVal
cornerHarris
integral
WarpAffine
WarpPerspective
resize
threshold
meanShiftFiltering
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meanShiftProc
remap
CLAHE
columnSum
matchTemplate
ConvertTo
copyTo
setTo
Moments
norm
PyrLKOpticalFlow
tvl1flow
pyrDown
pyrUp
Merge
Split
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13. Automotive Algorithms in OpenCV
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Lane keeping
• Canny
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AEB
• HOG
• Haar
• Optical flow
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Traffic sign recognition
• Hough transform
• Haar
• SURF
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Driver monitor
• Face/eye detect/tracking
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Pedestrian detection and avoidance
• HOG
• StereoMatch
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14. Other OpenCV Algorithms
 MCW - lead contributor of OpenCL-accelerated OpenCV
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Face detection
HOG pedestrian detection
PyrLK/TVL1 optical flow show
Square detection
SURF matcher
Stereo matcher
CLAHE
 Extensive optimizations are applied to these algorithms
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15. Mobile Application Acceleration
 MulticoreWare MobileComputeMark
Android benchmark App
 Parallel Path Analyzer for Android
 Renderscript / OpenCL Stack Development
 Photo editing App for ARM
 Video transcode App for ARM
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16. Accelerated Libraries
OpenCL
 VPL
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Video Processing Library
Nearly 80 video kernels for broadcast
standards-conversion
Other Languages
 VP9 Codec for Google
 RenderScript
 OpenCL
 VFL
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Video pre-processing Filters Library
 IPL
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Image Processing Library
 XAL
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H.264 Acceleration Library
 Crypto
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Crypto++
AES
 Compression
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XXX_Zip
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17. PPA – Parallel Path Analyzer
 A performance-visualization tool to identify performance bottlenecks, application critical paths and
system-wide dependencies.
 Provides flexible, globally time-stamped, runtime data collection and post-processing
procedures to generate meaningful performance analysis results and display them in intuitive
graphical and textual ways.
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18. MxPA Source-2-Source Translator
 OpenCL to C on Intel X86, OpenMP, others
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• Maintain a common code base in OpenCL
• Support OpenCL enabled devices or go direct to other
compilers as needed
 Generates C source code for vendor specific compiler tools
• Integrated code sequencing and resource utilization for
highest performance
• Highest performance automated code generation method
available today
• Takes advantage of Intel SSE, TBB
Translation
 Close to ASM code performance out of box
• No need for OpenCL driver support
• Leverages silicon vendor tool optimizations
* = NDA needed for more details
upcrc.illinois.edu
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19. Thank You!
Contact : info@techrevllc.com
+1-844-TECHREV
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