Increased performance for demanding applications
STB03xxx Digital Set-Top Box
Integrated Controllers
tion flexibility. The advanced features of
STB03xxx controllers include:
Digital audio and video capabili-
ties support next-generation
applications
The digital audio and video subsystem
delivers high-quality video and sound,
enabling service providers to offer
graphically rich user interfaces for next-
generation interactive applications.The
digital audio and video subsystem
incorporates:
Highlights
Support emerging set-top box
(STB) applications,including e-
commerce,Web browsing,JavaTM
• Integrated PowerPC 405 processor
• MPEG-2 audio/video decoder
• Dolby® Digital audio decoder option*
(IBM STB0321x and STB0341x only)
• MPEG-2 transport demultiplexer
• On-screen display controller
• NTSC/PAL digital encoder
applets and HDD
Provide design flexibility
Help our customers:
• Improvetime-to-market
• Reduce software development
cycle
• IDE interface for hard disk drive (HDD),
smart card,parallel and serial ports
• MPEG-2 video decoder with anti-flicker
filter and five on-screen display (OSD)/
video planes; decodes MPEG-2 Main
Profile at Main Level (MP @ ML) video
• MPEG-2 transport and DVB descrambler
• MPEG-2 audio decoder; decodes
MPEG-2 Layer I & Layer II (CD quality)
audio
• Dolby Digital-compliant decoding (IBM
STB03x1x controllers only; a Dolby
Digital license is required)
• Digital encoder, including NTSC/PAL
analog conversion, six concurrent analog
video outputs and compatibility with
SCART connectors
Design flexibility supports
diverse applications
Designers have the flexibility to choose
from a range of STB03xxx controllers to
satisfy their individual application
• Increase product longevity
Single-chip controllers enable
advanced STB products
requirements.They can choose a
controller with an embedded PowerPC
IBM STB03xxx digital set-top box inte-
405 featuring either150-MIPS or 225-
grated controllers provide single-chip,
MIPS performance. In addition, they have
high-performance solutions for digital
the flexibility to select a controller with
video broadcasting (DVB), digital record-
Macrovision Copy Protection support,
ing, and demanding video delivery
Dolby Digital audio support or both.The
applications, including interactive Web
browsing. New members of IBM’s family of
STB products, these advanced controllers
new IDE interface and anti-flicker-filter
feature allow easier enablement of digital
video recording andWeb browsing
incorporate an IBM PowerPC 405TM
applications.
processor within IBM’s STB architecture.
Featuring IBM Blue LogicTM technology
and manufactured using IBM’s advanced
0.25-micron process, the STB03xxx
controllers incorporate four powerful
subsystems — processor, digital audio/
PowerPC 405 delivers high
performance
The PowerPC 405 processor, the heart of
the processor subsystem,features high-
speed operation at108 MHz or162 MHz,
video,peripheral and memory interface.
a16-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB
The efficient STB03xxx controller design
data cache to enhance overall applica-
makes more MIPS available to STB
tion performance.With this processing
manufacturers by allowing the base audio
capability, products can support elec-
and video decoding activities to execute
tronic programming guides, e-commerce
with minimal host processing.A unified
applications,Web browsing and other
memory architecture provides configura-
STB03xxx controllers provide single-
chip, high-performance solutions.
interactive applications.
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