Why aren’t high-speed signal processing systems already using compression?
High-speed signal processing systems are found in diverse applications – medical imaging, test & measurement, IC test, radar and software radio…the list is long, the signals are quite diverse, and the range of sample rates is broad. Also, since the signals are varied and NOT of the type that have historically been compressed (speech, audio, and video signals), most people think that these other signals are too different to be compressed effectively with one algorithm. Also, some users will need lossless compression, while others will want fixed rate or fixed quality compression. In contrast, Samplify has discovered that many of these signals are bandlimited, and that their dynamic range doesn’t need the data converter’s full resolution all the time. Samplify simply offers a useful set of lossless, fixed rate, and fixed quality compression algorithms that work on many of these signals, with good compression ratios.
