SGS Thomson's DVD Chips.....................................
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June 23, 1997, Issue: 1063
Section: Semiconductors
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SGS-Thomson Preparing PC-DVD Decoders
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SGS-Thomson Microelectronics will soon sample two single-chip decoders targeted at the PC-DVD market. The STi3560 is designed for high-performance, full-hardware DVD decoding on the PC and integrates MPEG-2 video decoder, two-channel Dolby audio decoder, and other DVD peripheral functions. The STi3540 is designed for lower-cost implementations in which DVD audio decoding is performed in software.
The STi3540 is sampling now, is scheduled for fourth-quarter production, and is $21 in100,000s. The STi3560 will begin sampling in September, with production expected in the fourth quarter; it is $27 in 100,000s.
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June 23, 1997, Issue: 959
Section: Design
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STM samples its Omega MPEG chip
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SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Inc. (STM; Lincoln, Mass.) has begun sampling one of the Omega MPEG-2 audio/video recorders that it described at last winter's Western Cable show. The STi5500 includes MPEG and peripheral functions to allow the implementation of full DVD or set-top decoder subsystems in a single chip.
The One-chip Multimedia Engine Architecture, called Omega, uses as its core the ST20-C2 RISC architecture, a processor with a 40-MHz clock. The memory/cache subsystem in the chip includes 2 kbytes of instruction cache and 2 kbytes of data cache. Another endec subsystem provides all MPEG-2 encode/decode functions, as well as PAL/NTSC encoding functions.
The chip is packaged in 256-pin ball-grid array, and will be priced at $35 in 10,000-unit quantities. Call (617) 259-0300, or access www.st.com.
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