Generation9®-Elite
Driving the Digital Lifestyle
DVD
Digital Camera
Digital TV
Imaging
IP Core
Integrated DTV System On a Chip
Zoran Corporation
1390 Kifer Road
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-5305
Te l 408.523.6500
Fax 408.523.6501
www.zoran.com
Product Brief
Description
The Generation9-Elite series of ICs from Zoran builds upon the pro-
duction proven, class leading technology and integration of the
Generation9 family of products by bringing a new level of perform-
ance to Digital TV products. The Elite family adds dual CPUs, higher
memory bandwidth and increased application flexibility and perform-
ance to the high level of integration and outstanding quality of the
previous generation of Integrated DTV System ICs. The Generation
9-Elite IC architecture includes a multi-stream universal decoder
which can decode and playback two fully independent A/V streams
using separate time bases.
System Block Diagram
Key Features
• Dual High Performance 32-bit CPUs (540 MIPS)
• PCI, IDE, Local BUS, UART, IR and SPI
• Worldwide Conditional Access
• High Quality Video Scalers
• Floating-Point Media-DSP
• Innovative Tex/Warp Engines
• Dual Display Architecture
• Copy Protection
• Flexi-Port Flexible Multi-channel I/O
• Video Orthogonality
• Pin Compatible to Generation 9
• Software/API Compatible to Generation 9
• Video Signal Processor for Picture Improvement
Dual CPU Performance
The dual CPU architecture of the Elite family allows for significantly
enhanced application software performance. This is accomplished by
using one CPU, to perform all of the tightly coupled real-time tasks in
the system. All of the low-level drivers and the real-time operating
system run on the other identical CPU. This allows nearly all of the
available CPU bandwidth of the second CPU, the Application CPU; to
be available for user defined application processing.
Elite Software Architecture
The Elite software architecture developed for use in the Elite prod-
ucts allow for software written for Zoran's Generation9 products to
seamlessly migrate to the Elite products. This "virtual device" soft-
ware abstraction layer provides full Zoran API support to software
running on the Application CPU. Elite API support is fully backwards
compatible with the Generation9 product line allowing software writ-
ten for the Generation9 ICs to run unchanged on the Elite system.
Drop-In Upgrade
The Elite series of ICs are designed to be a drop-in upgrade to the
with their respective Generation9 counterparts.
existing Generation9 IC. The Elites are signal and API compatible
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