Oak Technology's DVD Player Reference Design Delivers a
Ready-for-Production System for Consumer Electronics Manufacturers
11/02/98
Business Wire
(Copyright (c) 1998, Business Wire)
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1998--
The Atlanta Reference Design will Enable OEMs Worldwide to Bring Low-cost, Feature-Rich DVD, Super Video CD and VCD Players
to Market Rapidly
Oak Technology (NASDAQ:OAKT), a provider of semiconductor solutions that enable the delivery of digital content to the home, today announced the availability of the Atlanta, a ready-for-production DVD player reference design based on its OTI-226 DVD system chip. Supporting the DVD 1.0, Super Video CD, VCD (2.0, 1.1 and 1.0) and CD-DA specifications, the Atlanta solution offers OEMs a production-ready video disc player design that includes robust navigation and control software, fully consistent with all the requirements of the DVD 1.0 specification.
"The Atlanta reference design will enable Oak's customers in a broad range of geographies to rapidly bring DVD products to market with competitive bill-of-materials costs," said Paul Vroomen, president of Oak's Consumer Group. The Consumer Group at Oak Technology develops integrated circuits and system-level solutions for consumer electronics OEMs in the digital media and broadcast markets. Applications for these solutions range from DVD players to cable, satellite and terrestrial set-top boxes (STBs) and digital video servers. Oak's consumer products share an evolving system-level and chip-level architecture. This common architecture philosophy allows OEMs in these global markets to quickly and cost-effectively develop products that support the convergence in the digital television (DTV), DVD and STB markets.
Using Oak's OTI-226 DVD system chip, the Atlanta platform supports both NTSC (720x480 @ 30 Hz) and PAL (720x576 @ 25 Hz) video output through composite RCA and S-video connectors as well as DVD-standard Pan & Scan, wide screen, and 4:3 video formats. The OTI-226 chip performs both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video decompression, along with Dolby Digital (Dolby AC-3), MPEG-1 and Linear PCM audio decompression. The Atlanta design enables the playback of discs recorded in D1, 2/3 D1, and 1/2 D1 video formats, thereby supporting the Super Video CD standard in China as well as the DVD standard. Optical and coaxial digital outputs are provided for an external Dolby Digital home theater decoder-amplifier as well as left and right stereo audio outputs, a jog-shuttle wheel and an infrared remote control that accesses all player functions in the system. The Atlanta reference design features an on-screen display (OSD) with a 256-color palette and 16 levels of transparency, which provide simultaneous display of graphics with full-motion video. Content Scramble System (CSS) authentication and decryption are integrated. Because many emerging DVD markets require Karaoke functions in addition to movie playback, the Atlanta allows multiple Karaoke configurations on the internal circuit board assembly, allowing manufacturers to offer different product configurations using a single hardware design. Two microphone inputs are available on the front panel.
The Atlanta reference design has been optimized for high-volume manufacturability, with component selection criteria based on low-cost volume pricing and maximum flexibility in sourcing those components. Available immediately from Oak Technology, the kit includes a schematic, bill-of-materials (BOM) list, user's guide, and DVD player. For more information, contact Oak Technology's Consumer Group at 408/737-0888 or visit www.oaktech.com.
The foregoing statements may consist of forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. Factors that could cause actual outcome to differ materially from those set forth include, without limitation, the economic conditions in the Asian market, the rate of adoption of new technology, including DVD players, market acceptance of the product, competitive pricing actions and marketing programs, among others. For a discussion of such risks, see the Company's most recent SEC Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
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