BCM1180

Description

The BCM1180 is a high-quality video and multimedia processor for advanced desktop multimedia VoIP products. Based on the VideoCore®II processing engine, this is software compatible with the established VideoCore® family, allowing rapid development of next-generation products and backward compatibility for applications software. It highly integrated solution combines video and audio processing, polyphonic sound synthesis, an LCD controller, and SRAM on a single chip while retaining long battery life.

The BCM1180 fully programmable architecture enables the full range of multimedia codecs to be implemented in software. This provides total flexibility to the system designer without the costly overhead and time-to-market uncertainty of hardware accelerators.