Micronas MDE 9517/18D Digital Decoder for DVB Set-Top Boxes and IDTV Sets Product Information

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Short description

The MDE 9517D and the MDE 9518D are highly integrated MPEG-2 decoders for DVB-compliant digital set-top boxes (STBs) and integrated digital television sets (IDTVs). The most recent members of the Micronas MDE family feature an integrated transport stream demultiplexer, a high-performance CPU, MPEG-2 audio and video decoding, and the video, graphic, and audio output unit. The ICs are cost-effective, powerful platforms for the complete transport stream processing in satellite, cable, or terrestrial STBs and IDTVs. They provide a range of features that is easily deployed thanks to Micronas’ Integrated Consumer Television Operating System MICTOS. The complete system solution significantly simplifies the design of STBs, including optional PVR functionality, and integrated digital TVs.

The new MDE 95xyD single-chip decoders enable a full range of applications including free-to-air, pay-TV and personal video recorder (PVR) set-top-boxes. The MDE 9517D with digital RGB outputs fulfils the increased picture quality requirements of the FPD IDTV market. Chip family members with advanced security features are ideally suited for pay-TV applications.

Features

Main Features

Highly-integrated single-chip DVB compliant decoder:

Embedded 32-bit RISC processor as system and chassis controller

Transport stream filtering and de-multiplexing

DVB descrambling

MPEG-2 MP@ML video decoding

MPEG-2 layer I, II audio decoding

High-performance 2-D graphics accelerator

Support of 4 graphic/video layers (video, graphics, PIP or subtitle, background)

PAL and NTSC video and graphic resolutions

Teletext L2.5 decoding

Integrated audio and video DACs

Only one 20.25 MHz crystal required

Compelling features for IDTV applications

RGB digital output for graphic

ITU656 output for video

100 Hz interlaced or 50 Hz progressive graphics output

Graphic synchronizable to external H/V-sync pulses

A multitude of interfaces enable scalable applications:

Up to two transport stream (TS) inputs

Configurable parallel or serial TS interfaces

Analog RGB, Y/C (S-Video), CVBS video output

VBI data service (e.g. Teletext) re-insertion

Video encoding in PAL, NTSC and SECAM format

Stereo L/R, S/PDIF and I²S audio output Unified SDRAM interface

ATA interface for PVR applications

Control interface for up to two common interface (CI) modules

Flexible power-down modes

IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan

Packages

MDE 9518D: PLQFP208-1

MDE 9517/18D: PBGA352-1 package

Applications

Satellite, cable, terrestrial set-top boxes

Personal video recorders (PVRs)

Pay-TV set-top boxes

Integrated digital TV sets (IDTVs)

Tools

Software Kit

The MDE 95xyD family is offered together with Micronas’ Integrated Consumer Television Operating System MICTOS. MICTOS supports the software designer by handling the digital A/V transport stream decoding (demultiplexing, A/V synchronization, clock control loop etc.) and offering standard interfaces for hard drive, Flash, and SDRAM management. It integrates a real-time operating system kernel, a comprehensive set of device drivers and driver managers, while offering a well-defined API. MICTOS allows for software stacks, that are reusable and portable among all versions of the MDE 9518D family and other Micronas 32-bit IC platforms.