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LSI Logic to Supply Single-Chip DVD Decoding
Engine for SONY DVD Players
TOKYO, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI - news) today
announced that it will supply SONY Corporation with a single-chip DVD decoding engine
for SONY's recently announced second-generation DVD video players, the DVPS501D
and DVP-M30, which are being launched in Japan this spring.
The LSI Logic L64020 DVD decoding engine integrates all the key DVD player functions
into a single device. The chip integrates more than two million transistors and 45 memories,
combining more than nine discrete chips on a single package.
The LSI DVD decoder chip includes an MPEG-2 audio/video decoder, along with Dolby
Digital and Linear PCM audio decoders and sub-picture units (SPUs). The combination of
these elements provide the highest quality video and audio performance available and offer
customers a variety of advanced playback modes, including picture search, freeze frame,
frame advance, frame reverse, and variable-speed play. Other advanced features that are
also supported include on-screen menus, multi-camera angle, zoom and pan-and-scan
functions. Consumer requirements such as VCD backward compatibility are also supported.
''We are delighted that SONY has chosen our single-chip DVD decoding engine,'' said Elie
Antoun, executive vice president of consumer products at LSI Logic. ''SONY is truly the
leading innovator in consumer electronics and has become the industry leader in DVD video
by producing the world's finest quality DVD players.''
About LSI Logic
LSI Logic Corporation, The System on a Chip Company(R) is a leading supplier of custom
high-performance semiconductors, with operations worldwide. The company enables
customers to build complete systems on a single chip with its CoreWare(R) design program,
thereby increasing performance, lowering system costs and accelerating time to market. LSI
Logic develops application-optimized products in partnership with trendsetting customers,
and operates leading-edge, high-volume manufacturing facilities to produce submicron chips.
LSI Logic is headquartered at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, California 95035,
408-433-8000, www.lsilogic.com.
SOURCE: LSI Logic Corporation |
