Belfast, UK — Amphion Semiconductor, a supplier of digital video, imaging and encryption semiconductor IP solutions, has become a member of the IBM Blue Logic IP Collaboration Program.

The IBM Blue Logic IP Collaboration Program makes third-party IP cores available for licensing directly from the IBM program members to integrate into ASICs manufactured by IBM.

Amphion has implemented customer designs for MPEG-2 in IBM's 130nm process technology and offers its MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and Motion-JPEG IP cores through the Program. These hardware cores use stream-based architectures to accelerate bit-stream performance while reducing area and power consumption.