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Toshiba's SoC digital video broadcast MPEG decoding solution? That'll be the Daewoo!

1st June 2006

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Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced that Daewoo Electronics will use its system-on-chip digital video broadcast MPEG decoding solution in the company’s first dual stream personal video recorder (PVR). Due to launch in the UK in August and the rest of Europe later in the year, the new Daewoo PVR will use the Toshiba SoC to deliver enhanced functionality that includes the facility for simultaneous output of video to two external devices.

Toshiba’s TC9040x ‘Donau’ series of processors are high-performance SoC devices are designed to simplify the design and reduce the component count of iDTVs, set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics products such as PVRs and combination hard disk/DVD recorder systems. These devices combine the company’s Media embedded Processor (MeP) architecture with a powerful 64-bit embedded RISC host processor to create multimedia SoCs with compute performances of up to 650MIPS (at 180MHz). The MeP architecture effectively frees the host processor from compute-intensive DVB and multimedia processing tasks and allows designers to choose cost-optimised solutions for DVB applications.

The Daewoo PVR uses the power of the ‘Donau’ SoC to enable genuine dual-stream functionality for simultaneous decode and output of dual video streams. The IC also provides three-stream audio processing to AAC, MPEG and AC-3 standards; audio post-processing including surround-sound and EQ functions; and a powerful multi-plane graphics engine with hardware accelerator.