NEC Electronics Corporation and its subsidiaries in Europe and the Americas,
NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH and NEC Electronics America, Inc., today
introduced two new image-processing solutions based on NEC Electronics’
enhanced multimedia architecture (EMMA®) platform. The new EMMA3SL/HD™ and
EMMA3SL/SD™ devices enable users to build set-top boxes (STBs) and digital TVs
(DTVs) with next-generation H.264 video compression standard, which offers
twice the compression ratio as the current MPEG2 standard. The EMMA3SL/SD
system-on-chip (SoC) supports standard-definition video broadcasts, while the
EMMA3SL/HD SoC supports high-definition broadcasts. The devices are the latest
additions to NEC Electronics’ family of H.264-compliant EMMA3 SoCs, which have
achieved market success since 2006 in blue laser DVD players and
high-definition TV (HDTV) products.

In addition to having an H.264-compliant video decoder, the devices combine
all of the key functions needed to receive and decode digital broadcasts,
including built-in digital signal processors (DSPs) that enable systems using
Dolby® Digital Plus or high-efficiency advanced audio coding (HE-AAC) to play
back high-quality audio streams even at low transfer rates.

A built-in Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI)-compliant USB 2.0 host
controller and IEEE 802.3/802.3u/802.3x-compliant Ethernet media access
controller (MAC) replace the external components traditionally required. This
integration enables low-cost connection to external devices and networks and
makes it easy for systems to import and process video and audio streams.

The EMMA3SL/HD SoC includes a built-in High-Definition Multimedia Interface
(HDMI)-compliant interface for digital transmission of uncompressed video and
audio streams, a built-in deinterlacer to convert interlaced signals into
progressive signals and a built-in fast digital-to-analog (D/A) converter to
produce high-definition signal output.

Shalini /ITvoir Network