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Technology Stocks : CRUS, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Calvin Scott who wrote (5444)	3/30/1998 10:45:00 AM
From: Frank Povoski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8193

IT looks like Oak has a parts that has the digital side without the RFamp, prml, and servo controller. Oak Technology's OTI-9800 DVD-ROM controller contains new features and enhancements to support both today's and tomorrow's ATAPI DVD-ROM drives. Due to its flexible architecture and enhanced features, the OTI-9800 supports peak transfer rates of greater than 4X DVD-ROM speed. This speed can be achieved while supporting the PIO Mode 4 and DMA Mode 2 timing requirements. The OTI-9800 DVD-DSP interface provides a high-speed flexible parallel port interface to facilitate direct connection to popular DVD-DSP processors, and an enhanced serial interface to other common DVD-DSP and CD-DSP processors. The embedded CSS (Content Scramble System) authentication processor is fully compliant with the DVD forum requirements in order to support copy-protected DVD titles. The OTI-9800 has advanced power management and EMI (electromagnetic interference) reduction features. It also has a programmable DRAM refresh rate and programmable I/O drive buffers on all of its major interfaces. This, in conjunction with a more efficient internal architecture and the OTI-9800's ability to use a lower clock frequency with 16-bit DRAM, provides a reduction in both power consumption and EMI when compared with other competitive devices. The OTI-9800 supports audio data synchronization with nX-to-1X audio playback. The OTI-9800 also performs simultaneous disk data buffering, real-time CD-ROM error correction, and 31-block transfers with 120ns cycle times to the host. This provides the fastest possible access to data because it is available from the DSP interface during transfers at peak disk speeds and after-seeks. The ability to perform 31-block transfers with a 120ns cycle time provides ideal throughput over the IDE interface.