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To: John Rieman who wrote (49602)	6/30/2000 10:56:24 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Broadcom's BCM7100 chip... Broadcom Delivers World's First Single Chip for Cable-TV Set-Top Boxes broadcom.com "The BCM7100 is a complete cable set-top box system-on-a-chip including the front-end, back-end, CPU, system control and peripherals. Front-end technology includes an in-band QAM demodulator, an out-of-band demodulator, and an upstream burst modulator. The back-end technology includes an MPEG2 video decoder, audio decoder, transport engine, advanced 2D/3D graphics controller and an analog NTSC decoder/encoder. The integrated CPU is a MIPs RISC microprocessor and the interactive system controller is a DAVIC Media Access Controller (MAC). Peripheral functions include ISO7816 Smart Cards for e-commerce, UARTs, counter/timers, IR Tx/Rx, a POD interface, general-purpose I/O, an IRDA interface and SPI/I2C controllers." ----- us.design-reuse.com "New MIPS-based[tm] semiconductor devices include the BCM7100 single-chip device for cable set-top boxes from Broadcom Corporation, the 64-bit µPD98501 network controller from NEC, and the TX49[tm] family of 64-bit processor cores from Toshiba." -------- PACE FIRST TO DEVELOP SET-TOP BOX WITH SINGLE CHIP pace.co.uk Pace Integrates Broadcom’s Single Chip Set into Time Warner Cable Box May 8, 2000, National Cable Show, New Orleans: Pace Micro Technology plc, the world’s largest dedicated developer of digital set-top box technology, is the first to have integrated a single chip set solution into a digital cable set-top box. Broadcom’s BCM 7100 chip combines four chips into one.