NDV8401

The NDV8401 is a "system on silicon" solution for consumer DVD Players. Significant feature enhancements are being provided on this version of the NDV8401 device to address both full-featured DVD-Players and DVD-R/W Recorder/Player products.

System Solution
` Designed for DVD Players with the capability to play DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, VideoCD 2.0, CD-DA, CD-DA in DTS format, and CD-DA with CD-TEXT content
` Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) allows sharing of single memory pool for instruction fetch, execution space,system stream demux, video decode, audio decode, video display and audio presentation
` Primary clock operating frequency range between 80 100MHz based on feature/power requirements
` Three on-chip PLLs/Frequency Synthesizers which can generate all required system clocks
` Design optimized for 16Mbit & 64Mbit SDRAM operation
` Flexible host bus, communication ports & DVD Front-End control to support all DVD system elements

Integrated RISC Processor
` 32-bit processor with an operating frequency of 67.5 MHz
` 2KB instruction cache
` 1KB data cache
` 1KB local RAM

DVD Front End Interface
` Supports DVD format, Video CD 2.0 (White Book), & CD-DA (Red Book)
` Real time error detection & correction
` Supports serial data input with sync search, descrambling, EDC, & serial to parallel formatting blocks
` Supports 8-bit parallel data input with selectable bypass of the internal Front End processing blocks
` Integrated CSS decryption/descrambling for DVD content

MPEG Transport Engine
` Accepts input from front end at up to 40Mbps+
` Program Stream demultiplexing
` Sub-stream header parsing for DVD

MPEG Video Decode
` Decodes MPEG1 video & MPEG2 main level, main profile video (720x576)
` Maximum input bit-rate of 15 Mbits/sec

MPEG & Dolby Audio
` Custom DSP design optimized for processing of DVD audio formats
` Provides 6 channel PCM outputs + simultaneous 2 channel stereo downmixed PCM outputs
` Decodes MPEG1 & 2 stereo formats
` Decodes Dolby Digital (Dolby AC-3) audio up to 5.1 channels
` Audio down sampling option for Dolby Digital
` support for all DVD PCM audio formats including 96KHz sampling rate
` Flexible interface for multiple audio DACs for 16/18/20/24 bit formats
` Integrated SPDIF encoding capability for both IEC958 & IEC1937 formats
` Support for MPEG-2 multi-channel extensions & DTS encoded material via SPDIF output
` Simultaneous SPDIF output with analog DAC output
` Integrated Karaoke audio capture port & digital mixing
` Audio Frequency Synthesizer to support multiple audio sampling rates for AudioCD, VideoCD, & DVD

Video/Graphics Processor
` 2-tap vertical filter/scaler, 8-tap horizontal filter/scaler for MPEG-1 scaling & sinx/x DAC upsampling
` YUV 4:2:0 input format with vertical filter for chroma conversion to 4:4:4
` Pan & Scan for 16:9 to 4:3 output conversion & pass-through letterbox
` Sub-Picture decoder with Alpha Blending for DVD SPUs
` 2/4/8 bit full screen OSD functions with alpha blending for flexible graphics display
` Up to 8 regions per line
` Closed caption support

NTSC/PAL Encoder
` NTSC-M, PAL-M/B/D/G/H/I
` Composite, S-Video & YCrCb component video outputs
` Teletext encoder with sequencer & filter
` Wide Screen Signalling in encoder for PAL formats
` Copy Generation Management System in NTSC/PAL encoder for both NTSC & PAL formats
` 4 field NTSC or 8 field PAL generation
` Luminance Filtering with 2x oversampling and sinx/x correction
` Chrominance Filtering with 4 times oversampling
` 3 10-bit DACs
` Macrovision Copy Protection Version 7.01

Communication Ports
` Flexible serial port communication combinations
` 2 integrated USARTs
` 2 integrated Synchronous Serial Ports
` Sharing of pins via 3 different modes that allow designer to choose the configuration of serial ports
` Integrated Consumer Infrared demodulator in one UART

Design for Test
` Full scan methodology

Low cost manufacturing
` 3.3V, 0.35?, 4-layer metal single polycide standard cell National Semiconductor technology
` 208 pin MQUAD package

The Mediamatics^TM NDV8401 DVD on a Chip Processor provides features and cost effective system integration for Universal DVD Players and Internet connected Players/Recorders. Integration of an industry standard RISC processor architecture operating at high performance levels allows system developers to combine the ease of C based application coding with flexible system extensions unavailable in other platforms. NDV8401can be equally applied to DVD-Video & DVDAudio playback and Internet Appliance products.