AS3530

The AS3530 is austriamicrosystems digital system for its new generation mobile entertainment platform. It's flexible architecture allows single chip solutions for high performance power optimised audio and video products with minimum count of external components.

AS3530 can be configured in two ways: for pure audio products the video decoder and parts of the main memory can be configured into power down. For video applications the video decoder hardware will be enabled and the speed of the system will be scaled to the actual demanded video decoder complexity and resolution. All video decoder features of AS3530 for H.263/MPEG-4/H.264 and VC-1 are implemented in a dedicated video hardware accelerator for minimal power consumption and also ultra low main processor load.

Using low power deep submicron technology gives outstanding performance of AS3530 in terms of power consumption and utmost integration densities for embedded on-chip RAM and ROM areas.

The AS3530 is intended as microcontroller chip including all digital function blocks necessary for a portable audio or video player. These function blocks of AS3530 include onchip RAM and ROM memories, interface blocks for data transfer and storage like USB, IDE, NandFlash, MMC, SD, SDIO, CE-ATA, hardware acceleration for video decoding, clock generation and digital power optimisation functions.

Based on the ARM926-EJ with large on-chip instruction and data caches and integrated MMU, the system gives full support for all kinds of operating systems from simple RTOS implementations up to Symbian OS, micro Linux and Windows CE. For all audio input/output and power management it is intended that the chip is used in combination with austriamicrosystems audio AFE products (e.g. AS3514/ AS3515/AS3517/AS3518/AS3519). For the chip family MCM derivatives with integrated AFE and integrated mobile SDRAM are planned as future products. Austriamicrosystems AS3530 provides a total system solution reference design including all necessary software blocks for low level HW drivers, device IO functions and a dedicated reference application with common audio and video features. Austriamicrosystems runs a comprehensive software partnership program which allows authorised software partners to provide variety of audio or video extensions, applications or total solutions based on austriamicrosystems powerful portable multimedia platform.