EDN’s 20th annual Innovation Awards Finalists
-- EDN, February 18, 2010
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&& PREVIOUS FINALIST | MAIN | NEXT FINALIST >> Category: Multimedia SOCs Finalist: Armada 1000 HD media processor SOC, Marvell Semiconductor Marvell's Armada 1000 SOC, also known as the 88DE3010, targets network-connected consumer electronics applications such as Blu-ray players, digital media adapters, set-top boxes, and Ethernet-augmented digital televisions. At its nexus are dual Sheeva PJ1 CPU cores, each running at up to 1.2 GHz and derived from the ARMv5 instruction set. (As an architectural licensee, Marvell is able to create derivative designs.) A dual-channel multiformat decoder (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, DiVX, etc.), supplemented by a Qdeo postprocessing engine (per-pixel 3D noise reduction, 3D de-interlacing, scaling, natural depth expansion, intelligent color remapping, adaptive contrast enhancement, etc.), handles video at up to high-resolution frame sizes and bit rates. Graphics and audio processing engines, along with security and system management CPUs, round out the multimedia processing mix. Other integrated peripherals include dual SATA and dual USB transceivers, SDIO, SPI, PCI Express, Fast Ethernet, HDMI v1.3, and six video DACs. |
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