LSI Logic to Supply Single-Chip DVD Decoding Engine
for SONY DVD Players - PR Newswire - March 30, 1998 21:01
TOKYO, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI)
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
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