NSC NDV8401

September 2000
MediamaticsTM NDV8401
DVD on a Chip Processor
Platform
The MediamaticsTM NDV8401 DVD on a Chip Processor
provides features and cost effective system integration
for Universal DVD Players and Internet connected
Players/Recorders. Integration of an industry standard
RISC processor architecture operating at high
performance levels allows system developers to combine
the ease of C based application coding with flexible
system extensions unavailable in other platforms. This
processor can be equally applied to DVD-Video & DVDAudio playback and Internet Appliance products.
quality and flexibility with wide ranging support for all
common disc-based audio formats and many Internet
based formats.
A custom 24-bit DSP has been
developed to provide a powerful solution for the latest
compute intensive audio algorithms. Support includes
DVD-Video, VideoCD and CD formats. The flexible
audio structure allows audio data to originate from discbased media, external digital audio streams or via the
Internet. Full 5.1 channel output with simultaneous 2channel down-mix and IEC958/1937 output is standard
for the NDV8401.
Audio
The NDV8401 provides unsurpassed audio processing
Features
The NDV8401 is a “system on silicon” solution for consumer DVD Players. Significant feature enhancements are
being provided on this version of the NDV8401 device to address both full-featured DVD-Players and DVD-R/W
Recorder/Player products.
System Solution
§ Designed for DVD Players with the capability to play DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, VideoCD 2.0, CD-DA, CD-DA in
DTS format, and CD-DA with CD-TEXT content
§ Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) allows sharing of single memory pool for instruction fetch, execution space,
system stream demux, video decode, audio decode, video display and audio presentation
§ Primary clock operating frequency range between 80 – 100MHz based on feature/power requirements
§ Three on-chip PLLs/Frequency Synthesizers which can generate all required system clocks
§ Design optimized for 16Mbit & 64Mbit SDRAM operation
§ Flexible host bus, communication ports & DVD Front-End control to support all DVD system elements
Integrated RISC Processor
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32-bit processor with an operating frequency of 67.5 MHz
2KB instruction cache
1KB data cache
1KB local RAM
DVD Front End Interface
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Supports DVD format, Video CD 2.0 (White Book), & CD-DA (Red Book)
Real time error detection & correction
Supports serial data input with sync search, descrambling, EDC, & serial to parallel formatting blocks
Supports 8-bit parallel data input with selectable bypass of the internal Front End processing blocks
Integrated CSS decryption/descrambling for DVD content
MPEG Transport Engine
§ Accepts input from front end at up to 40Mbps+
§ Program Stream demultiplexing
§ Sub-stream header parsing for DVD
MPEG Video Decode
§ Decodes MPEG1 video & MPEG2 main level, main profile video (720x576)
§ Maximum input bit-rate of 15 Mbits/sec
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MPEG & Dolby Audio
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Custom DSP design optimized for processing of DVD audio formats
Provides 6 channel PCM outputs + simultaneous 2 channel stereo downmixed PCM outputs
Decodes MPEG1 & 2 stereo formats
Decodes Dolby Digital (Dolby AC-3) audio up to 5.1 channels
Audio down sampling option for Dolby Digital
support for all DVD PCM audio formats including 96KHz sampling rate
Flexible interface for multiple audio DACs for 16/18/20/24 bit formats
Integrated SPDIF encoding capability for both IEC958 & IEC1937 formats
Support for MPEG-2 multi-channel extensions & DTS encoded material via SPDIF output
Simultaneous SPDIF output with analog DAC output
Integrated Karaoke audio capture port & digital mixing
Audio Frequency Synthesizer to support multiple audio sampling rates for AudioCD, VideoCD, & DVD
Video/Graphics Processor
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2-tap vertical filter/scaler, 8-tap horizontal filter/scaler for MPEG-1 scaling & sinx/x DAC upsampling
YUV 4:2:0 input format with vertical filter for chroma conversion to 4:4:4
Pan & Scan for 16:9 to 4:3 output conversion & pass-through letterbox
Sub-Picture decoder with Alpha Blending for DVD SPUs
2/4/8 bit full screen OSD functions with alpha blending for flexible graphics display
Up to 8 regions per line
Closed caption support
NTSC/PAL Encoder
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NTSC-M, PAL-M/B/D/G/H/I
Composite, S-Video & YCrCb component video outputs
Teletext encoder with sequencer & filter
Wide Screen Signalling in encoder for PAL formats
Copy Generation Management System in NTSC/PAL encoder for both NTSC & PAL formats
4 field NTSC or 8 field PAL generation
Luminance Filtering with 2x oversampling and sinx/x correction
Chrominance Filtering with 4 times oversampling
3 10-bit DACs
Macrovision Copy Protection Version 7.01
Communication Ports
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Flexible serial port communication combinations
2 integrated USARTs
2 integrated Synchronous Serial Ports
Sharing of pins via 3 different modes that allow designer to choose the configuration of serial ports
Integrated Consumer Infrared demodulator in one UART
Design for Test
§ Full scan methodology
Low cost manufacturing
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§ 208 pin MQUAD package
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