
September
2000
2000 National Semiconductor Corporation
www.national.com
Mediamatics
TM
NDV8401
DVD on a Chip Processor
Platform
The Mediamatics
TM
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
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.
operating
at
high
Audio
The NDV8401 provides unsurpassed audio processing
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.
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
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Primary clock operating frequency range between 80 – 100MHz based on feature/power requirements
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Three on-chip PLLs/Frequency Synthesizers which can generate all required system clocks
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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
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2KB instruction cache
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1KB data cache
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1KB local RAM
DVD Front End Interface
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Supports DVD format, Video CD 2.0 (White Book), & CD-DA (Red Book)
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Real time error detection & correction
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Supports serial data input with sync search, descrambling, EDC, & serial to parallel formatting blocks
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Supports 8-bit parallel data input with selectable bypass of the internal Front End processing blocks
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Integrated CSS decryption/descrambling for DVD content
MPEG Transport Engine
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Accepts input from front end at up to 40Mbps+
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Program Stream demultiplexing
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Sub-stream header parsing for DVD
MPEG Video Decode
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Decodes MPEG1 video & MPEG2 main level, main profile video (720x576)
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Maximum input bit-rate of 15 Mbits/sec