DTV and STB
The conversion from analog to digital broadcast is spurring a new wave of SoC designs for digital television (DTV) and set top boxes (STBs).
The continually decreasing price of system products, coupled with the ever-increasing need for more performance in support of the best possible user experience for content, connectivity and digital rights management, mean developers need embedded processor cores with a wide range of performance price points and a rich ecosystem of software.
MIPS Technologies has the knowledge, products and partner ecosystem to help set-top box and DTV developers quickly bring differentiated solutions to market.
With the array of DTV software available for the MIPS® architecture, equipment makers can quickly bring new products to market. Software such as audio codecs allows broad use of MIPS cores, simplifying the software development environment. A field-upgradeable platform allows inclusion of evolving standards such as digital rights management, while future-proofing designs. Support ranges from operating systems to middleware packages to Java engines and Java-based environments such as MHP and OCAP.
Many configurable options allow MIPS cores to be used for the host RTOS, supporting complex user interfaces, DRM, audio and other control functions distributed on various SoC subsystems.
Rapid SoC design is made even faster and easier through integration of a wide array of key IP blocks-including audio, USB and HDMI-from the MIPS Technologies Analog Business Group.
