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News Release from: Toshiba Electronics Europe | Subject: TC9040x
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 June 2006
MPEG decoder finds a home with Daewoo
Daewoo Electronics will use Toshiba's system-on-chip (SoC) digital video broadcast (DVB) MPEG decoding solution in the company's first dual stream personal video recorder (PVR).
Daewoo Electronics will use Toshiba's system-on-chip (SoC) digital video broadcast (DVB) MPEG decoding solution in the company's first dual stream personal video recorder (PVR) Due to launch in the UK in August and the rest of Europe later in the year, the new Daewoo PVR will use the Toshiba SoC to deliver enhanced functionality that includes the facility for simultaneous output of video to two external devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Toshiba's TC9040x Donau series of processors are high-performance SoC devices are designed to simplify the design and reduce the component count of iDTVs, set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics products such as PVRs and combination hard disk/DVD recorder systems.
These devices combine the company's Media embedded Processor (MeP) architecture with a powerful 64bit embedded RISC host processor to create multimedia SoCs with compute performances of up to 650MIPS (at 180MHz).
The MeP architecture effectively frees the host processor from computing-intensive DVB and multimedia processing tasks and allows designers to choose cost-optimised solutions for DVB applications.
The Daewoo PVR uses the power of the Donau SoC to enable genuine dual-stream functionality for simultaneous decode and output of dual video streams.
The IC also provides three-stream audio processing to AAC, MPEG and AC-3 standards; audio post-processing including surround-sound and EQ functions; and a powerful multi-plane graphics engine with hardware accelerator.
Commenting on the choice of Toshiba's Donau technology, SG Lee, Daewoo's Director of New Technology Introduction, states: "By delivering all of the key functionality on a single chip, Toshiba's TC9040x processor has helped us minimise component count, design complexity and cost of the new dual-stream PVR platform".
Thomas Kuschel, Senior Manager of Toshiba's Microcomputer, Automotive and Consumer IC Marketing in Europe, adds: "High-speed, reliable dual stream video decoding is essential to the new breed of PVRs and other digital television applications demanding functionality such as picture-in-picture or simultaneous output to multiple devices".
"The Donau IC is an elegant, single-chip solution that provides all of the necessary processing functionality, allowing system designers to concentrate more time on the areas of their application that will deliver further competitive advantage".
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