Introduction

STi7108

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Memory interfaces

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Parallel external memory and peripheral interface (EMI):

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16-bit data bus, five banks, addressing up to 64 MB per bank. 256 Mbytes total

EMI address range

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Interface to Parallel NOR Flash, SLC NAND Flash, SRAM, and 8-,16-bit

Peripherals

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Secure boot from NOR or NAND Flash

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Supports ATAPI, DVB-CI and CI-Plus host interface protocols

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High speed SPI interface:

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Secure boot from Serial Flash

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Post boot read/write of Serial Flash

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Supports standard SPI, dual and quad I/O protocols

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Dual -16, 32-bit DDR2/DDR3 local memory interfaces (LMIs), each up to 533 MHz

(DDR2/3-1066)

Connectivity

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Triple USB 2.0 Host interfaces including PHYs

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Two e-SATA HDD interfaces

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32-bit, 33 MHz, PCI interface, shared on EMI with access interleaving possible

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Two integrated Ethernet GMACs. Each supports: wake-on-LAN, multiple hardware

address filters, 10/100 MII/RMII, Turbo-MII up to 300 Mbits/sec and GMII up to

1000 Mbits/sec.

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8-bit, 52 MHz, SD-MMC/SDIO interface for memory cards and eMMC:

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V4.3 for eMMC flash support

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SD HC V2.0 PART A2

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Soft modem support: integrated MAFE: integrated system side DAA. (Si-Labs)

Transport and security

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Front end transport stream pre-processor (STFE):

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PID filtering and transport stream merging

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Six external TS inputs

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Four internal TS paths from memory

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TS I/O routing for DVB-CI/CI-Plus, TS I/O routing for MultiStream CableCard with

stream merging/demerging

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Aggregate TS processing > 480 Mbits/sec live input rate

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Transport stream processor with security co-processor (STBE)

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Multi-stream transport stream de-multiplexing from any source (Broadcast, IP

Network, DVR)

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Section filtering and clock recovery

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Supports CA vendors’ latest advanced security specifications

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DVB/DES/TDES/AES/Multi-2/ICAM2.2 descrambling

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ATIS-IIF and CI-Plus descrambling

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Multi-stream AES/TDES encryption/decryption for local copy protection or network

DRM schemes including SVP, DTCP-IP, WMDRM, DVB-CPCM, DivX, Marlin