A New RAW Codec in the Market: Tico RAW

Tico RAW has been introduced as the new RAW codec developed by intoPIX. It is presented as the world’s first RAW codec capable of achieving low-complexity compression values with Bayer color filter array patterns or similar.

This new codec has been developed to make the most of the sensor and make colors more real, highlights brighter, and blacks deeper, at least according to the manufacturers. They achieve this with the development of a new innovative processing and encoding. It leverages the full power of the sensor while reducing bandwidth, which translates into streamlined workflows even at high resolutions such as 160 megapixels and color depths of 8, 10, 12, and 16 bits.

Currently, it is available for hardware and software IP-cores and SDK: Xilinx and Intel FPGA, ASIC like TSMC 12, 16, 28, 40nm and Nvidia GPU, CPU: x86-64 Intel or AMD and some others upon specific request.

It is designed to work in streaming as it consumes little bandwidth and offers higher image quality, but also for production with cameras in photography and video or for mobile devices and other applications such as GIS or industrial uses. Storage space consumption is also reduced by compressing a RAW file to the size of what would be a JPEG file.

Now with the new RAW formats in the market, we’ll have to see if this new codec finds one to accompany it.

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