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 & DVD-
Audio 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 disc-
based media, external digital audio streams or via the
Internet. Full 5.1 channel output with simultaneous 2-
channel 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
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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
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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
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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
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Accepts input from front end at up to 40Mbps+
Program Stream demultiplexing
Sub-stream header parsing for DVD
MPEG Video Decode
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Decodes MPEG1 video & MPEG2 main level, main profile video (720x576)
Maximum input bit-rate of 15 Mbits/sec
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