Sigma Designs announced a collaboration with Wyplay. Together they have extended a porting effort on Sigma's new ARM based STB (set top box) SoC product line. A proof of concept debuted in Amsterdam at IBC 2013.

In Las Vegas at CES 2014 the middleware port is available at multiple performance tiers with Sigma's new HEVC capable SoCs. The Sigma SMP8700 series have a wealth of features that make it the ideal fit for OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), STB manufacturers and service providers. The SMP875X family is the first to enable HEVC video decoding capability with the Main-10 profile allowing processing of up to 10bit color samples and will be demonstrated at CES.

The SMP8700 series includes SOCs with multiple ARM A9 CPU configurations for 3,000 or 6,000 DMIPS of application processing. Similarly, SMP8700 series includes GPU options with multiple performance levels for new 3D user interfaces and over-the-top applications. The STB vendor thus has flexibility to combine the right pair of CPU and GPU to meet customer requirement at optimum platform BOM.

Incorporating Sigma's industry-proven expertise in multi-format Full-HD video decoding, VXP(TM) display processing, and field-proven AV software core, the SMP8700 family of SOCs is able to provide premium quality video experience. There are also multiple CAS solutions planned for this family including Verimatrix's cardless Video Content Authority System (VCAS(TM)). Frog by Wyplay is an initiative aiming to free all players in the TV ecosystem from being locked into proprietary solutions.

Thanks to Frog by Wyplay, the full source code of Wyplay's innovative and flexible set-top box middleware and backend add-ons - already being deployed to more than 10 million subscribers at Canal+, Belgacom, SFR, and Vodafone - will be accessible free of charge for evaluation and development purposes.