SAA7164
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/SAA7164, enables TV and STB manufacturers to add a hard disk drive for digital video recording (DVR) and time shifting.
Key Features
- Dual-channel processing handles two independent TV, video and audio streams
- Worldwide standard video decoder(s): NTSC, PAL, SECAM
- Worldwide standard TV sound decoder(s): BTSC, A2 (Dual-FM), NICAM, EIAJ
- Silicon tuner support by IF demodulator(s) with Low-IF or Direct-IF interface
- Flexible A/V 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, 400 kbit/s
- Parallel transport stream output interface with multiplexed A/V streams



