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To: BillyG who wrote (31334)	3/23/1998 11:10:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Vela Research announces that its Windows NT and Unix MPEG-2 encoder products have been certified to be DVB compliant. Vela uses CUBE's encoder chips........ newsalert.com <<Argus, Vela's Windows NT-based MPEG-2 encoder, complies with the following DVB standards: - DVB-SI / ETS-300-468 -- The Service Information system for use by the DVB decoder to configure itself and to help the user to navigate DVB bitstreams. - ETR-154 -- Digital broadcasting systems for television; implementation guidelines for the use of MPEG-2 systems; video and audio in satellite and cable broadcasting applications. These guidelines specify many MPEG-2 minimum parameter ranges and options which every DVB receiver is supposed to support. - ETR-211 -- Digital broadcasting systems for television; implementation guidelines for the use of MPEG-2 systems; Guidelines on implementation and usage of Service Information. These guidelines provide many important details for implementing the DVB-SI standard. Centaur, Vela's Unix-based MPEG-2 encoder, complies with the following DVB standard: - ETR-154 -- Digital broadcasting systems for television; implementation guidelines for the use of MPEG-2 systems; video and audio in satellite and cable broadcasting applications. These guidelines specify many MPEG-2 minimum parameter ranges and options which every DVB receiver is supposed to support.>>

To: BillyG who wrote (31334)	3/23/1998 1:29:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Some WinHec news from ATI, the Set-top-Wonder CE... prnewswire.com ATI Presents The Future of The Set-Top Box at WinHEC 03/23/98 PR Newswire (Copyright (c) 1998, PR Newswire) Windows CE-enabled RAGE PRO TURBO technology ideal for web-surfing, 3D games, DVD movies in inexpensive set-top boxes TORONTO, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- ATI Technologies Inc. (Toronto: ATY) today announced that it has developed a reference design for a Windows CE- powered set-top box that features ATI's latest 2D, 3D and video acceleration and PC to TV convergence technology. Called the Set-top-Wonder CE, the design provides a platform from which PC, consumer electronics, and cable OEMs can combine key entertainment functions into low-cost, but high performance set- top boxes. With more functions and at a lower price than other CE devices, the Set- top-Wonder CE reference design is the first set-top design to integrate DVD and MPEG - 2 playback, 3D gaming, web browsing, and intelligent TV all into a single device. As the first company to demonstrate a multimedia Windows CE platform, ATI becomes the leading Windows CE multimedia semiconductor provider. ...

To: BillyG who wrote (31334)	3/24/1998 8:39:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

More on Teralogic; TeraLogic Gains Graphic Chip Design Wins With European Set-top Vendors Semiconductor designer TeraLogic Inc. has started sampling DTV chips and already has lined up four companies planning to source the silicon for use in set-top boxes. U.K.-based set-top box manufacturers Toshiba Consumer Products, Vestel Electronics of Turkey (the third largest TV tuner manufacturer in Europe) and Symbionics Ltd. will incorporate the 32-bit TL750 graphics and video processor into hardware this fall. Raghu Rao, TeraLogic director of marketing, said he expects Toshiba to be the first to market in the third quarter with a product that includes the chip. Symbionics will use a board that incorporates the TL750 and an MPEG-2 decoder from Toshiba Electronics Europe. In addition, TeraLogic has inked a deal with Acorn Group plc, which will incorporate the chip into a reference design and make that available to hardware companies. Michael Bernstein, an analyst with Semico Research, believes the company has a head start in the set-top market. "They have a lot of good contacts, a complete solution and experience of doing it at LSI Logic [LLSI]," he said. TeraLogic will make a reference design available next month for software developers for $9,500. The platform, called Puma, includes a 233 MHz StrongARM SA-110 processor from Digital Semiconductor Corp. [DEC], 8 MB of SDRAM, 4 MB flash memory, 2.1 GB hard drive, CATV tuner for PAL or NTSC systems, IR keyboard and hand-held TV remote, 56K modem, 5.1-channel interface, keyboard and mouse interfaces and several video inputs and outputs. Broad Standards Support TeraLogic executives believe they gained design wins in Europe first because that region is farther along than the United States in offering data services in conjunction with cable and digital broadcast satellte programming. To take advantage of that market, TeraLogic has made sure its chip supports a range of international DTV standards, including DVB, DSS, British Digital Broadcasting, BskyB and DTG Canal+, MHEG5 Interactive Services Standard. The chip is expected to be available in volume later this quarter for $10. To meet demand, the company has signed on TSMC for manufacturing in addition to Chartered Semiconductor. TeraLogic will demonstrate the TL750 next month at NAB at a suite in the Las Vegas Hilton and expects to show it working with software from PlanetWeb. Network Computer Inc. also is developing software to take advantage of the chip. TeraLogic's upcoming HDTV chipset will use similar graphics technology as the TL750. As a result, developers creating programming to take advantage of it are assured future set-top boxes based on TeraLogic chips will be able to play back the content. The company plans to offer a reference design called Puma based on the technology. (TeraLogic, 650/526-2000; see MMW, Feb 25 for related story) TL750 features 32-bit graphics acceleratorvideo scaler (horizontal and vertical)display processorprogrammable anti-flicker and anti-alias filtershardware color reduction and expansiongraphics scaler (supports square pixel graphics and non-square pixel video)compositing enginefour planes (background, video, graphics, cursor)per pixel alpha blendingRGB to YUBaudio processor and mixer