KORTRIJK, BELGIUM and SUNNYVALE, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 04/06/06 — Barco Silex, Barco’s center of competence for electronic design services and IP focused on image and video-processing, and Cradle Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company delivering high-performance and flexible Multi-core DSP (MDSP) platform solutions for real-time video, audio and imaging applications, today announced the availability of a multi-channel SD MPEG-4 encoder on Cradle’s CT3616 MDSP.