Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: DiMeNsion-8600
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 January 2002
All-in-one DVD recorder system processor
LSI Logic is claiming the first single-chip DVD recorder system processor in the shape of the DiMeNsion-8600 (DMN-8600)
The DMN-8600 is the first device in LSI Logic's DiMeNsion family of consumer recordable products and is based upon the company's powerful system-on-a-chip DoMiNo architecture. The new processor supports all DVD recording and playback formats and enables feature-rich DVD recorder solutions, while significantly reducing system-level costs and design complexity for consumer electronics manufacturers.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 January 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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'The DiMeNsion 8600's high level of integration and compelling set of features will help bring DVD recorders to the mass market', said Shingo Kawata, associate director of the Home AV Network Business Unit of JVC Corporation.
'LSI Logic's DoMiNo architecture represents a new level of performance for consumer digital entertainment solutions'.
Lowering total system cost and improving performance, the DMN-8600 integrates digital audio and video encode and decode capabilities; dual high-performance 32bit RISC processors; highest-quality display processing abilities; storage and IEEE-1394 interfaces; and a 2D graphics engine.
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Its 32bit SPARC RISC CPUs have DSP coprocessing engines that provide up to a combined 600MIPS of performance.
In addition, the DMN-8600 integrates a high-performance video DSP and motion-estimation engine that, in tandem with the dual-CPUs, enable simultaneous digital audio and video encode and decode functions, and provide full-system CPU capabilities.
Due to its high-performance architecture, the processor also has the ability to transcode between a variety of digital audio and video formats (MPEG, DV) and transrate between different bit rates.
This gives DVD recorder manufacturers the flexibility to provide a wide variety of system features for consumers.
With LSI Logic's proprietary TrueScan Pro motion-compensated de-interlacing and TrueView Pro motion-compensated temporal filtering algorithms, the DMN-8600 delivers the industry's best recorded image quality and highest quality progressive scan display.
Together, these capabilities enable the DMN-8600 to offer a near-broadcast-quality recording experience in the living room.
The DMN-8600 uses LSI Logic's C-Ware software architecture which allows manufacturers to take products to market quickly with commercially available development tools, while enabling software re-use across and between other LSI Logic based consumer products such as the ZiVA-5 DVD system processor.
Manufacturers using DMN-8600 are able to offer products ranging from entry-level DVD recorders to feature-rich products that include DV camcorder connectivity and digital video recording (DVR) time-shifting functions on the DVD drive.
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