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TOSHIBA ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY'S MOST COMPLETE REFERENCE DESIGN
Tools for DVD PC Applications
New Evaluation and Design Kits Provide All-In-One Solutions
to PC OEMs and Add-In Card Manufacturers
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba America Electronic
Components, Inc. (TAEC) today announced two DVD reference design tools,
a DVD evaluation kit and a DVD design kit, for PC OEMs and add-in card
manufacturers. The evaluation kit includes a full-featured DVD decoder
board based on Toshiba's DVD chipset as well as a DVD-ROM drive, a DVD
sample disk, software device drivers and installation manuals. The
design kit includes all of the materials in the evaluation kit with the
addition of manufacturable design data such as schematics, Gerber
files, bill of materials, sample codes, design specifications and
applications notes. These new tools provide complete, all-in-one
development solutions for DVD personal computer applications.
"As a pioneer in DVD technology, Toshiba utilized its expertise to
offer reference design tools that provide system designers with the
full- functionality and compatibility to develop complete DVD solutions
for the personal computer," said Daniel Lee, DVD program manager for
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. "Toshiba's name is
synonymous with DVD. We've set the standard and are committed to
enhancing DVD technology as well as our product offerings."
Toshiba's evaluation and design kits are compatible with S3's
ViRGE(R)/VX, ViRGE/DX, ViRGE/GX, ViRGE/GX2 and Trio64V2(TM).
"S3's multimedia accelerators provide the scaling and filtering
capabilities required to display high-quality MPEG2 video on the PC,"
said Mark Farley, manager, third-party video solutions for S3
Incorporated. "The combination of Toshiba's DVD reference designs with
S3 multimedia accelerators delivers the high quality, 30 frame per
second DVD playback that end-users expect."
Future versions of Toshiba's design and evaluation kits will offer
compatibility with other graphics cards.
Decoder Board Chipset Functions:
The DVD evaluation kit and design kit include a DVD decoder board,
which is based on Toshiba's DVD decoder chipset. This chipset consists
of six individual integrated circuits, which break down the digital
signal into component elements and perform logic decoding functions for
complete DVD feature support. The six ICs and their major functions
include:
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