Product category: Reference Designs
News Release from: NXP (formerly Philips Semiconductors) | Subject: DOC PNX300x reference kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 9 June 2003
Reference kit upgrades
analogue TV designs
A complete system reference kit aims to simplify designs based on the latest Nexperia PNX300x digital one-chip (DOC) high-end analogue/digital broadcast TV solutions
Philips has released a complete system reference kit for its latest Nexperia PNX300x digital one-chip (DOC) high-end analogue/digital broadcast TV solutions. The DOC PNX300x reference kit provides set makers with all the hardware and software needed to immediately start implementation of TV sets.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 June 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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It will enable fast time-to-market development of affordable TV sets, sporting high-end features such as 100Hz progressive scan, EPGs (electronic programme guides), picture improvement and sound processing.
Despite the roll-out of digital satellite, cable and terrestrial TV broadcasting, today's mass markets remain centred around 'conventional' TV sets that can be used with a set-top box, or that include iDTV (integrated digital TV) reception capabilities.
However, this does not mean that the advantages of digital processing, such as picture and sound improvement, picture-in-picture capabilities and EPG display, cannot be brought to these sets.
By handling all of the TV set's signal processing in the digital domain, and providing sufficient on-chip processing power to handle applications such as JPEG decoding, Philips' DOC solutions add feature-rich functionality at a price level that opens up high-volume TV set markets.
'Based around our latest PNX300x DOC solution, the system reference kit enables the quick development of feature-rich TV sets that will sell at mid-range prices.
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It also has all the necessary hardware and software hooks as well as the development environment to provide manufacturers with a smooth migration path to iDTV sets that can receive both analogue and digital TV broadcasts as well as connected home applications', said Jos Klippert, Marketing Manager for high-end TV solutions at Philips Semiconductors.
The PNX300x is one of Philips' Nexperia digital video system solutions, based on powerful embedded processors, dedicated IP blocks and advanced software IP libraries that shorten product development cycles.
The scalability of Nexperia IP blocks and architectures not only allows Philips to produce new Nexperia solutions within short time scales, it also enables customers to re-use their own application IP in future systems.
At the heart of the PNX300x is a 54MHz MIPS Technologies processor, capable of executing 65MIPS, much of which is free to run application programs in addition to software stacks such as Philips' DocWare software.
The system reference kit allows customers to develop their own user interface (UI) using high-level languages such as XML, the markup language commonly used for building web pages.
In addition to providing all the necessary hardware needed to implement a PNX300x based TV, the system reference kit is supplied with a CDROM containing product-quality reference application software, plus a complete software development environment for modifying the supplied reference application software.
The development environment includes tool chains, system documentation and training manuals.
The complete system reference kit is available now.
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