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News Release from: Toshiba Electronics Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 June 2004
Convergence helps with set-top box
integration
Toshiba Electronics has contracted Convergence to port its Multimedia Home Platform certified LinuxTV to its newest single-chip solutions for digital video broadcast and MHP applications.
Toshiba Electronics has contracted Convergence of Berlin, to port its Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) certified LinuxTV to the company's newest single-chip solutions for digital video broadcast (DVB) and MHP applications With the forthcoming delivery of Toshiba's SoC family for free-to-air (FTA) and pay-TV digital television applications, the two companies will soon provide set-top-box (STB) manufacturers with a bundle of hardware and tailor-made software that provides unprecedented flexibility and cost advantages
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The TC90400 generation of SoC processors (codenamed Donau) integrates convergence's LinuxTV to provide a single-chip solution that offers manufacturers greater cost advantages and wider flexibility in designing and configuring STBs and iDTVs.
The fast memory management unit of the RISC CPU supports all functions of LinuxTV that, through its built in system-rescue-kernel, offers optimal stability and flexibility.
All graphics functions are swiftly handled by DirectFB and its corresponding custom graphics hardware - even exceeding relevant MHP standards.
A "sound-proof" digital audio experience is guaranteed through multi-stream-decoding and audio post-processing.
The co-operation between Convergence and Toshiba has resulted in a prototype system running LinuxTV MHP (1.0.2) inside an iDTV.
This prototype was shown last week at Mediacast.
One of the first manufacturers to deliver interactive, digital set-top-boxes enabled by convergence's LinuxTV and the TC90400 chipset will be Galaxis Technology, a subsidiary of Convergence's parent company, Distinctive Devices.
"We expect a multi-million-dollar business during the course of the next years for Convergence after mass production starts in 2005," says Frank Fischer, CTO of Galaxis Technology and Managing Director of Convergence.
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