Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe

Fujitsu’s SmartMPEG-C Digital Television Decoder Offers Advanced Features for PVR Applications

Langen & Cologne, May 22, 2007 — Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe today announces the latest member of its SmartMPEG family, the SmartMPEG-C, an advanced Digital Television Decoder designed to meet the needs of tomorrow’s Set-Top Box and IDTV market.

Designed using Fujitsu’s CMOS 90nm process technology, the SmartMPEG-C includes features that support personal video recorder (PVR) applications including two video decoders, hardware DMA, and encryption. It also includes an LCD output channel to enable simple connection to an LCD panel and HDMI transmitter. A 202.5MHz ARC Tangent-A4 CPU with a 2kByte data and 4kByte instruction cache is included. The CPU is connected to a shared 16-bit DDR RAM using a 135MHz bus.

The SmartMPEG-C device supports multi-word DMA for ATA devices, and includes a USB 2.0 High Speed OTG link controller for connection to USB hosts or devices. Supporting the system is an advanced hardware acceleration unit capable of performing DMA operations including complex operations such as Triple DES encryption/decryption and RGB to 4:2:2 colour space conversion. The write-back unit behind the scaler allows the implementation of a fast Mosaic Mode.

The system is optimised for PVR applications with two video decoders and output units, three independent transport stream decoders and a hardware DMA controller. The SmartMPEG-C comes with the Fujitsu Driver Application Programming Interface (FAPI) to help customers achieve the shortest possible development cycle. FAPI is a complete driver set allowing fast and efficient customer software design. In addition, Fujitsu provides the PVR Middleware, which offers stable handling for recording, playback, time-shift and trick modes.

Designed using Fujitsu’s CMOS 90nm process technology, the SmartMPEG-C has a low power consumption of 450mW (typical). It is offered in both a 256-pin BGA and 240-pin FBGA packages and has an ambient operating temperature range of 0 to +70°C.demonstrations.

Features include:

• ARC Tangent-A4 CPU@202.5MHz (4k-I 2k-D Cache)
• 16-bit 135MHz DDR RAM shared memory interface
• USB 2.0 High Speed OTG Controller
• Triple DES Encryption and Decryption
• Advanced hardware acceleration unit with DMA
• Multiword DMA ATA interface (16MByte/second)
• Universal processor interface (NAND/NOR Flash & Common Interface)
• Three transport stream decoders
• 3 DVB descramblers
• 2 hardware MPEG-2 video decoders MP@ML
• 2 flexible MPEG video resizing units (factor 1/16 to 2)
• 4-layer display controller (true-colour or CLUT)
• Individual CLUT, Flicker and Flutter fixer for each layer
• Flexible frame rate conversion (50/60Hz)
• Cross Colour/Cross Luminance filters
• PAL/NTSC/SECAM digital encoder
• RGB De-matrix (RGB or YCrCb output)
• ITU-R 656 video input & output
• DACs for analogue video and audio output
• Hardware MPEG audio decoder (Layer 1/2)
• S/P-DIF output for PCM/AC3/MPEG, Dolby Digital 5.1
• UART/2xSmart Card/I²C/GPIO/PWM output
• 7-segment LED and 5 digit keypad controller
• Fujitsu CMOS 90nm technology 1.2V core, 3.3V I/O, 2.5V DDR
• Low power consumption: 450mW (typical)

Availability

Development kits and sample volume available.

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Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) is a major supplier of semiconductor products. The company provides advanced systems solutions to the automotive, digital TV, mobile telephony, networking and industrial markets. Engineers from design centres dedicated to microcontrollers, graphics controllers, mixed-signal, wireless, multimedia ICs and ASIC products work closely with FME's marketing and sales teams throughout Europe to help satisfy customers' system development requirements. This solutions approach is supported by a broad range of advanced semiconductor devices, IP and building blocks. For more information, please see: http://emea.fujitsu.com/microelectronics

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