SAA7163
In February 2010, Trident acquired the set-top box and TV product lines from NXP’s BU Home. The products on this page are now a part of Trident Microsystems’ product offering for the television markets.
General Description
The single-/dual-channel audio/video decoder IC, SAA7163/4 enables TV and STB manufacturers to add a hard disk drive for Digital Video Recording (DVR) and time shift.
Key Features
- Dual-channel processing handles two independent TV, video and audio streams
- World-wide standard video decoder(s): NTSC, PAL, SECAM
- World-wide standard TV sound decoder(s): BTSC, A2(Dual-FM), NICAM, EIAJ
- Silicon Tuner support by IF demodu-lator(s) with Low IF or Direct IF interface
- Flexible AV Input Crossbar
- 3D comb filter
- 2D/3D noise reduction
- VBI Data Slicing
- Macrovision® copy protection detection
- Video compression MPEG-2
- Audio compression MPEG-1 L2
- Possible Control Interfaces:
- PCI Express Interface (V1.1, single link)
- PCI Interface (V2.3)
- I2C Slave Interface, 400kbit/sec
- Parallel transport stream output interface with multiplexed A/V streams


