• News

    AMIMON and Lenovo to Demo WHDI-Integrated Tablet at CES 2012

    WHDI wirelessly transmits all content from the tablet to the bigger screen of the living room TV

    MWC Barcelona is Just Around The Corner

    February 27- March 1 2012

    About Amimon

    AMIMON is a fabless semiconductor company pioneering wireless uncompressed high-definition video for universal connectivity among CE, PC, mobile and professional video devices. Amimon is a founding member of WHDI™( www.whdi.org) consortium along with Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp Sony and LG Electronics..

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  • About

    AMIMON is a fabless semiconductor company pioneering wireless uncompressed high-definition video for universal connectivity among CE, PC, mobile and professional video devices. Amimon is a founding member of WHDI™( www.whdi.org) consortium along with Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp Sony and LG Electronics.

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    Management

    Dr. Yoav Nissan-Cohen - Chairman & CEO

    Dr. Yoav Nissan-Cohen’s twenty-year career in the semiconductor industry has covered a wide range of activities in research, technology development and corporate management. Dr. Nissan-Cohen was previously CEO of Tower Semiconductor, leading the company to advanced specialized technologies and to the construction of a $1.5B facility. Dr. Nissan-Cohen also took a leading role in the formation of Saifun Semiconductor which pioneered a novel flash technology. Prior to that, he was Engineering Manager at National Semiconductor Israel, and a research scientist at General Electric research and development center in New York. Dr. Nissan-Cohen received his Ph.D. Summa Cum Laude in Applied Physics from the Hebrew University and served as a jetfighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force.

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    Prof. Meir Feder – Co-Founder, Chief Scientist

    Meir Feder is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems, Tel-Aviv University. He is an internationally recognized authority in signal processing and information theory and has published well over 100 journal and conference papers, mostly on data compression and communications. During his academic career, Professor Feder consulted with numerous high-tech companies, including Intel on designing efficient multimedia algorithms for the MMX architecture. In 1998 he co-founded Peach Networks, a provider of server-based interactive TV systems, which was later acquired by Microsoft and in 2000 he co-founded Bandwiz, a producer of content delivery systems for enterprise networks. Prof. Feder began his professional career as an R&D engineer and manager in an elite R&D unit of the Israeli Defense Forces, where he received the "Creative Mind" award for his technical achievements. An IEEE Fellow with several academic awards to his credit, Prof. Feder holds an Sc.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..

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    Dr. Zvi Reznic – Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

    Zvi Reznic co-founded AMIMON after completing his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University in the area of Information Theory. Until 2001, Dr. Reznic served as design manager at Texas Instruments, Cable Broadband Communications (TI-CBC) where he managed a team of 45 engineers with responsibility for algorithm development, RTL design, and physical design of cable modem ICs. Dr. Reznic joined TI through the 1999 acquisition of Libit Signal Processing Ltd., a semiconductor startup developing cable modem chipsets. Dr. Reznic is the inventor and co-inventor of 20 registered and pending patents in the areas of digital communication and video compression. He also holds an M.Eng from Cornell University and a B.Sc from Tel-Aviv University, both in Electrical Engineering.

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    Issana Raudnitz - Vice President Finance

    With more than 15 years of experience in Management and Business operations, Issana Raudnitz joined AMIMON as Vice President, Finance in September 2006. Raudnitz previously served as Director of Finance and Operations at Oplus Inc., a producer of video processor solutions which was later acquired by Intel. Prior to that, she held the position of CFO at Optun Ltd., a fabless optical communication start-up. Raudnitz spent 10 years at Elscint, a medical devices company that was acquired by Marconi Medical and later by Philips. In her final position at Marconi Medical, Issana managed the Medical Division site in Israel. She holds a B.Sc in Industrial Engineering from the Technion and an Executive M.B.A. from the Kellogg-Reccanati School of management at Tel Aviv University.

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    David Shefler – Vice President, Sales & Marketing

    David Shefler joined the company in 2007.  He brings over twenty-five years of experience in Management, Sales, Global Business Development and Marketing in the Consumer Electronics, Wireless, Mobile and IT markets. Prior to joining AMIMON, David was the founder and CEO of KunaTech, a technology-enabled service company. Before that, he held several management and business positions, including Business Development Manager for Texas Instruments’ Short Distance Wireless Business Unit. David holds a BSc.EE. from the Technion in Haifa.

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    Dr. Moshe Meyassed – Vice President R&D

    Moshe Meyassed joined Amimon on June 2011 as VP of R&D. Moshe brings vast R&D experience as the former VP and Co-Founder of ZikBit Ltd., former VP R&D at Oplus (acquired by Intel in 2005) and Development Center Manager of Intel Yokneam. Previously, Moshe held the position of VP Design & Development at Ingentix (Infineon Flash, an Infineon-Saifun joint venture) and several positions at National Semiconductor Israel, the latest as Chip Design Department Manager. 
    Moshe holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, VA, USA and B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel
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    Career

    Career

    SW/System QA tester

    Job description:

    • Manual and automatic System/SW testing
    • Analyzing results, problem solving in embedded SW environment
    • Diverse and cross-functional tasks, cooperating with various teams in the company
    • Developing tools/procedures for internal QA use

    Embedded Software Engineer

    Job Description:

    • Design, implementation and integration of the MAC layer of a wireless HDTV link.

    Job Requirements:

    • Electrical or Software Engineering degree  
    • 3-5 years hands-on experience with embedded real-time SW development
    • Acquaintance with  micro controllers and peripherals
    • Experience with SW development methodologies
    • Experience in C programming on embedded real time systems
    • Experience with RTOS such as VxWorks, ThreadX, Nucleuses
    • High level system understanding
    • Digital TV architecture and applications – an advantage
    • 802.11 firmware programming – an advantage 

    Reporting to Manager of SW Design

    Customer Program Manager

    Job description:

    Full responsibility for Customers management
    Customer's focal point in Amimon and Amimon's customer manager on-site
    Manage customer's open issues. Solves most of the customer problems "on site" independently, Tailors and coordinates complicated solutions required by customers using other resources at Amimon.
    Understands the customers / market needs and feedback internally to influence future products and features

    Submit resumes to: jobs@amimon.com

    Submit resumes to: jobs@amimon.com

  • CE

    CE

    AMIMON is the largest supplier for home wireless video links. Chosen by Sony, Mitsubishi, Sharp & LG, WHDITM  is used to interconnect wirelessly between any video source and any TV in home.

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    Medical

    Stryker wireless video screens are FDA approved

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    Signage

    Reduce installation costs. Go wireless!

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    Custom installation

    Did you ever wonder how to interconnect all home video sources to all the TVs ?

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    PC

    AMIMON chipsets are used by HP, ASUS, Philips & Galaxy to provide superb, zero latency links between PCs and laptops to living room or bedroom displays

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    Tablets & Mobile

    The one thing that tablets and mobile phones lack the most is a large screen. Not anymore !

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    Camera

    Camera

    Are you sure you want to keep dragging those long cables wherever you go ?! Let yourself go wireless with AMIMON chipset

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  • Chipsets

    Chipsets

    Amimon is a fabless company, offering Integrated Circuit (IC) solutions for the rapidly growing wireless video market. Amimon's baseband and RF IC allow the assembly of complete high-quality, ultra-low latency, and robust solutions for multiple devices and applications

     

     

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    Application SW Reference design

    Application SW Reference design

    AMIMON's application SW reference designs comply with WHDI 1.0 standards and the SDK includes the WHDI protocol SW stack.  Both the VSU (Video Source Unit) and the VDU (Video Destination Unit) implement the MAC, PHY and AVCL layers

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    Full Reference Designs

    Reference Designs

    AMIMON offers reference designs for multiple products that serve various markets needs.  A reference design is used to expedite the integration into the end-product, reduce time-to-market, and offer a highly robust and bug-free module.

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    Stick AMN21430

    The 'Stick' offers users an immediate wireless connection from their notebook or tablet to their big acreen TV, allowing them to enjoy games, movies, images and any other interactive content

    AMN 2130/2230

    The 3rd  generation of AMIMON's baseband chipset is designed to meet the low cost, low power and small footprint requirements of the mobile markets.

  • MIMO + OFDM

    Amimon's Video Modem solution utilizes both MIMO and OFDM technologies to allow for the magic of Joint Source Channel Coding (JSCC) capability to transmit full uncompressed 1080p60 HD video resolution over a bandwidth of 40MHz.  The multiple-input and multiple-output, or MIMO, is the term used for multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver to improve communication performance.


    MIMO technology offers a significant increase in data throughput and link range without additional bandwidth or increased transmit power. It achieves this by spreading the same total transmit power over the antennas to achieve an array gain that improves the spectral efficiency (more bits per second per hertz of bandwidth) or to achieve a diversity gain that improves the link reliability (reduced fading). Because of these properties, MIMO is an important part of modern wireless communication standards, such as IEEE 802.11n (Wifi), 4G, 3GPP Long Term Evolution, WiMAX, HSPA+ and – WHDI.

    Since spatial multiplexing techniques makes the receivers very complex, MIMO is typically combined with Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing, or OFDM modulation, where the problems created by multi-path channel are efficiently handled.  WHDI standard incorporates MIMO-OFDM (in comparison, the IEEE 802.16e standard incorporates MIMO-OFDMA; and the IEEE 802.11n standard recommends MIMO-OFDM).
    Amimon's MIMO implementation allows for 4x5 or 2x5 MIMO channel model.


    This means the transmitter sends multiple streams (2 or 4) by multiple transmit antennas. The transmit streams go through a matrix channel which consists of all possible paths (see diagram below) between the transmit antennas at the transmitter and the receive antennas at the receiver. Then, the receiver gets the received signal vectors by the 5 receiving antennas and decodes the received signal vectors into the original information.
     

    The use of 5 receiving antennas allows the receiver to choose the "best" 4 out 5 received signals for solving the channel's matrix.

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    WHDI ATC

    As part of the WHDI Compliance Program, and as a founding member of WHDI™ consortium, Amimon has established the first Authorized Test Center (ATC) for conducting WHDI certification tests according to the WHDI Compliance Test Certification (CTS).
    The aim of the WHDI Compliance Program is to increase the WHDI logo credibility by allowing companies to test their products and/or wireless modules for compliance with WHDI standard.
    The tests are done in the ATC, by testing WHDI products in three levels:

    • Compliance with WHDI specification
    • Minimum product performance
    • Interoperability between products (including HDCP 2.0) testing

    A product that has received the ATC approval is allowed to carry the WHDI logo (According WHDI logo requirements)
    WHDI CTS defines two types of certification:

    • Product Certification - WHDI Product Certification is for products that are sold to the end user.
    • Module Certification - A WHDI module is a chip, board or system that can go through the performance testing layer in the CTS

    The tests include RF/PHY layer, MAC layer and AVCL layer compliance tests. On the Application layer the tests include usability tests, mainly for registration and user announcements.
    Prior to submitting a product for testing, submission forms and product samples should be sent to the WHDI ATC.

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    Video Modem

    Video Modem

    Practically all of the hundreds of millions of wired connections between video sources and displays today are based on delivery of uncompressed video. In order to replace these wired links, the wireless interface needs to be uncompressed as well.
    Solutions that are based on delivery of compressed video do not solve the problem of providing a universal wireless video link that can connect between any source and any display. Although most of the digital sources are distributed to the home in compressed format, compressed video is rarely provided at the output of most video sources such as DVD players and set-top-boxes. One reason for this is copy-protection: Compressed outputs are more susceptible and more sensitive to theft. Another reason is that interoperability on the compressed level is extremely challenging as there are so many video codecs, and displays cannot be expected to support all of them. Moreover, there are many sources that are generated uncompressed, such as gaming consoles and PCs.
    Other solutions try to overcome this constraint by applying real-time compression to the uncompressed outputs of sources. However, this significantly reduces quality, adds latency, and is expensive. (For a more detailed analysis of uncompressed vs. compressed, please refer to the White Paper on this topic – link provided at the end of this page)
    Enabling the wireless delivery of such high video rates calls for a radically different approach for the video transmission. WHDI™ is based on AMIMON’s revolutionary video-modem technology in which the video coding and modulation are jointly optimized to enable capabilities far beyond those of traditional wireless modems that have been optimized for data.
    Traditional wireless video approaches have failed to provide an adequate solution to the problem of wireless HDTV connectivity because they treat the problem as a special case of data delivery. In a wireless data modem (e.g. 802.11n, MBOA-UWB) all bits are treated equally ― they all get the same level of protection from channel impairments. However, in video, different bits have different level of importance and the effect of an error greatly depend on which bit was corrupted.
    For example: A typical uncompressed stream is represented by a stream of 8 or 10 bit numbers, each representing the primary color value of a given pixel. Clearly, the most significant bit (MSB) of each of these numbers has greater visual importance than the least significant bit (LSB). If an error occurs on the MSB, that pixel gets an entirely different (and unwanted) value. However, an error in the LSB will result in a minor change in the pixel’s value. Wireless data-modems ignore this characteristic of video. They provide the same level of protection to the MSB and LSB, which means they either protect the LSB too much, resulting in inefficient use of channel capacity, or protect the MSB too little, resulting is a low quality video link; or a combination of both. WHDI™ provides a different level of protection to the different bits, enabling the delivery of very high video rates with very high quality.
    Amimon’s Video-Modem takes the uncompressed HD video stream and breaks it into elements of importance. The various elements are then mapped onto the wireless channel in a way that give elements with more visual importance a greater share of the channel resources, i.e. they are transmitted in a more robust manner. Elements that have less visual importance are allocated fewer channel resources, and therefore are transmitted in a much less robust way. Allocation of channel resources can include, for example, setting power levels, spectrum allocation and coding parameters.
    The result of this unique video-modem approach is that any errors in the wireless channel are not noticed as they only affect the less important bits. Very high rates of video information can be transmitted because the human eye can tolerate the errors that fall on the less important bits.

  • Contact

    Taiwan,Amimon Ltd

    6F., No.6, Sec. 4, Hsinyi Rd., Da-an District, Taipei City 106, Taiwan
    思典商務中心, 台北市信義路四段6號6樓
    Tel: 886-2-5551-1266
    Fax: 886-2-2703-6007

    contact.taiwan@amimon.com

     

    Japan, AMIMON Japan K.K

    TK Gotanda Bldg 409, 5-10-18 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku,

    Tokyo, Japan 141-0022

    Tel: 81-3-3444-4305

    Fax: 81-3-3444-4351

    contact.japan@amimon.com

    USA, AMIMON Inc

    2350 Mission College Blvd. Suite 500
    Santa Clara, CA 95054 Tel: +1 650 641 3191

    info@amimon.com

    Israel, AMIMON Ltd

    2 Maskit St., Building D, 2nd Floor, P.O Box 12618
    Herzlia 46733, Israel.
    Tel: +972 9 962 9222
    Fax: +972 9 956 5467
    contact@amimon.com

    China, AMIMON Ltd

    Rm801,West Block, Coast Cavenaugh Building,No.12069 Shennan Road,

    Nanshan District, Shenzhen,518054,Guangdong,China.

    Tel: 86 755 33379055

    Fax: 86 755 33379059

    contact.china@amimon.com