Date: 29/05/2008
NEC introduces new members to the EMMA family of SOC for Set top box design.
The SoC family called EMMA (Enhanced Multimedia Architecture) is released to market by NEC Electronics addressing the growing need of SoC for Set top boxes in 2006.
The EMMA family has built-in support for next generation H.264 Video Compression Standard. H.264 standard offers twice the compression ratio in comparison to MPEG-2 standard.
The applications aimed are, low cost high definition Set-Top Boxes and Digital TVs.
The newly released EMMA3SL/SD system-on-chip (SoC) supports standard-definition video broadcasts, while the EMMA3SL/HD SoC supports high-definition broadcasts. These devices are the latest additions to NEC Electronics' family of H.264-compliant EMMA3 SoCs.
These devices also include key functions needed to receive and decode digital broadcasts, including built-in digital signal processors (DSPs) that enable systems using Dolby® Digital Plus or high-efficiency advanced audio coding (HE-AAC) to play back high-quality audio streams at low transfer rates.
A built-in Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI)-compliant USB 2.0 host controller and IEEE 802.3/802.3u/802.3x-compliant Ethernet media access controller (MAC) replace the external components traditionally required. This integration enables low-cost connection to external devices and networks and makes it easy for systems to import and process video and audio streams.
The EMMA3SL/HD SoC includes a built-in High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)-compliant interface for digital transmission of uncompressed video and audio streams, a built-in deinterlacer to convert interlaced signals into progressive signals and a built-in fast digital-to-analog (D/A) converter to produce high-definition signal output.
NEC Electronics is targeting the big and growing markets such as Europe, Russia, India, Brazil.
Availability: Now in samples and volumes in 3Q08
Price: US$50 for EMMA3SL/HD
US$40 for EMMA3SL/SD
For further details please visit www. Necel.com