TSC140/141
General Description
The Trident TSC140/141 combines a unique array of world-class, high-performance technologies for mainstream high-definition (HD) DVR and Zapper set-top box (STB) applications in worldwide satellite broadcast networks.
It offers complete broadcast receiver decoder chain, featuring a DVB-S2, Turbocoding, and a DVB-S demodulator, a multi-stream transport processor, and multi-format, multi-channel A/V decoder engines.
An innovative power management system is supervised by an integrated microcontroller. It enables complete power control for all parts of the system and provides the flexibility to implement use case-based power optimizations as well as ultra low-power standby operation. The system ensures compliance with worldwide regulations for energy efficiency and enhances system reliability.
An ARM Cortex-A9 superscalar 1700 DMIPS CPU delivers advanced performance with low power to execute heavyweight applications and middleware stacks on home-networked STBs.
A 3D graphics core from Imagination Technologies implements a complete, fully programmable, OpenGL ES2.0-compliant 3D GPU to render next-generation UIs, games, and a wide range of other 3D content.
The multi-format/multi-stream HD decoder engine supports a wide variety of Internet content formats used for online video sources – including Google’s VP8 – in addition to all the popular broadcast content formats.
A rich set of image enhancement tools, along with an advanced 1080P60 video post-processing display pipeline, enables high-quality, artifact-free picture output.
For a complete system hardware design, the only additional components required are tuner, and card reader-interface ICs, along with DRAM and flash memory ICs. This high level of integration enables a very low system bill of materials.
A fully engineered STB reference hardware system and software development kit is provided for product evaluation and system integration. The STB development platform hardware is designed with flexible architecture to support a variety of STB configurations.
Trident’s software development environment provides complete set of STB low-level drivers, a Linux 2.6 kernel, a configurable board-support package, and a build environment. The STB low-level drivers are mature and hardened by leveraging core driver libraries developed over multiple generations of production STB SoCs. The software development kit includes tools for flash image management and low-cost debug. Several third-party middleware products are supported, including those from NDS and OpenTV.
Key Features
- Advanced power management
- Powerful superscalar applications processor
- POWERVRTM 3D GPU from Imagination Technologies
- Flexible internet content format decoding up to 1080p30 resolution
- High-performance algorithms for picture enhancement
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