Generation9
®
-Elite
Integrated DTV System On a Chip
DVD
Digital Camera
Driving the Digital Lifestyle
Digital TV
Imaging
IP Core
Product Brief
Zoran Corporation
1390 Kifer Road
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-5305
Te l 408.523.6500
Fax 408.523.6501
www.zoran.com
Description
The Generation9-Elite series of ICs from Zoran builds upon the pro-
duction proven, class leading technology and integration of the
Generation9 family of products by bringing a new level of perform-
ance to Digital TV products. The Elite family adds dual CPUs, higher
memory bandwidth and increased application flexibility and perform-
ance to the high level of integration and outstanding quality of the
previous generation of Integrated DTV System ICs. The Generation
9-Elite IC architecture includes a multi-stream universal decoder
which can decode and playback two fully independent A/V streams
using separate time bases.
System Block Diagram
Key Features
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Dual High Performance 32-bit CPUs (540 MIPS)
PCI, IDE, Local BUS, UART, IR and SPI
Worldwide Conditional Access
Copy Protection
Flexi-Port Flexible Multi-channel I/O
Video Orthogonality
Video Signal Processor for Picture Improvement
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High Quality Video Scalers
Floating-Point Media-DSP
Innovative Tex/Warp Engines
Dual Display Architecture
Pin Compatible to Generation 9
Software/API Compatible to Generation 9
Dual CPU Performance
The dual CPU architecture of the
Elite
family allows for significantly
enhanced application software performance. This is accomplished by
using one CPU, to perform all of the tightly coupled real-time tasks in
the system. All of the low-level drivers and the real-time operating
system run on the other identical CPU. This allows nearly all of the
available CPU bandwidth of the second CPU, the Application CPU; to
be available for user defined application processing.
Elite
Software Architecture
The
Elite
software architecture developed for use in the
Elite
prod-
ucts allow for software written for Zoran's Generation9 products to
seamlessly migrate to the
Elite
products. This "virtual device" soft-
ware abstraction layer provides full Zoran API support to software
running on the Application CPU.
Elite
API support is fully backwards
compatible with the Generation9 product line allowing software writ-
ten for the Generation9 ICs to run unchanged on the
Elite
system.
Drop-In Upgrade
The
Elite
series of ICs are designed to be a drop-in upgrade to the
existing Generation9 IC. The Elites are signal and API compatible
with their respective Generation9 counterparts.
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®
-Elite
Integrated DTV System On a Chip
Driving the Digital Lifestyle
Product Brief
Access to World Markets
• A Global System Architecture provides a programmable system
that supports multiple international standards including European
DVB, US ATSC, US Cable CableCARD, the Japanese ARIB
standard, and proprietary standards such as NDS ICAM.
• Generation9-Elite ICs incorporate AES encryption/decryption
to/from the HDD or any other system I/O interface to protect any
digital content.
Facilitates Modular and Expandable Systems
• Due to the flexible architecture and worldwide conditional access
capabilities, a single hardware design can be retargeted at
multiple world markets.
• A core design built around this architecture provides access to
enhanced features such as PVR, additional broadcast reception
types, PIP, POP and Dual Display STBs (e.g. sharing a single
PVR HDD). OEMs can build a simple A/V system for time-to-mar-
ket and enhance it quickly with additional market enabling
features.
Flexible Integration
• Dual MIPS 32-Bit CPUs provide industry leading levels of both
system and application support
• Cost-effective integration is achieved through the use of multiple
optimized micro-controllers as well as an advanced proprietary
floating point DSP and an industry standard CPU
• A Media DSP for real-time media processing separate from the
Application CPU, rendering it Ideal for audio and enabled for
Streaming Media
• The specialized Video Signal Processor (VSP) enables user
defined features including motion adaptive de-interlacing
algorithms, reverse 3:2 pulldown techniques, and film mode
detection. Custom algorithms can be running in significantly less
time than it would take to implement in hardware
• The Texture Processor Engine (TEX/Warp) provides TV centric
graphics effects and ARIB acceleration not available to other
architectures. Implement 3D TV effects without the cost of a 3D
graphics engine as both graphics and video can be treated as
user interface objects
• The Flexi-Port Multi-Channel I/O function meets the requirements
of the most demanding DTV, PVR and STB architectures by
providing true Orthogonality with different input and output
formats including; Serial or Parallel TS, Multi BT.656 and DVI In or
Out.
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Generation9
®
Elite
Export Classification Control Number (ECCN):
5A992
For more information, contact Zoran's Sunnyvale office or the office nearest you:
Shanghai, China
Zoran China Office
Tel: 86-21-6469-9799
Fax: 86-21-6427-0545
Shenzhen, China
Zoran China Office
Tel: 86-755-8281-5777
Fax: 86-755-8322-0889
Hong Kong
Zoran Asia Pacific Ltd.
Tel: +852-2620-5838
Fax: +852-2620-5238
Israel
Zoran Microelectronics Ltd.
Te l : +972-4-8545-777
Fax: +972-4-8551-550
Japan
Zoran Japan Office
Te l : +81-3-5475-1051
Fax: +81-3-5475-1053
Korea
Zoran Korea Office
Tel: +82-2-761-7471
Fax: +82-2-761-7472
Taiwan
Zoran Taiwan Office
Te l : +886-2-2659-9797
Fax: +886-2-2659-9595
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