Fujitsu Digital Television Decoder Offers Advanced Features for PVR Applications

LANGEN & COLOGNE — Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe today announces the latest member of its SmartMPEG family, the SmartMPEG-C, an advanced Digital Television Decoder designed to meet the needs of tomorrow’s Set-Top Box and IDTV market.

Designed using Fujitsu’s CMOS 90nm process technology, the SmartMPEG-C includes features that support personal video recorder (PVR) applications including two video decoders, hardware DMA, and encryption. It also includes an LCD output channel to enable simple connection to an LCD panel and HDMI transmitter. A 202.5MHz ARC Tangent-A4 CPU with a 2kByte data and 4kByte instruction cache is included. The CPU is connected to a shared 16-bit DDR RAM using a 135MHz bus.

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