STi7106

Introduction

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STi7106 features summary

The STi7106 has the following main features:

CPU

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High performance CPUs for applications (ST40) and audio/video decoding (2 x ST231)

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ST40-300, dual-issue, applications CPU, 32 KI, 32 KD caches, MMU, FPU

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Target speed 450 MHz delivering > 800 DMIPs

System and memory interfaces

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Single 16/32-bit DDR2 local memory interface (LMI), up to 400 MHz

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16-bit external memory and peripheral interface (EMI) - up to five banks

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Interfacing to, and boot from, parallel NOR or NAND Flash

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High speed SPI port for interfacing to and boot from Serial Flash

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Supports standard SPI and dual I/O protocols

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MMC 4.2/SD 2.0 interface

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

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Disc-less timeslip feature supported via NAND Flash (raw or managed) attached to

EMI, USB, or MMC interfaces

Video decoding

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Latest generation “Delta” video decoder with ST231 programmable CPU core:

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MPEG2, H264, VC-1/WM9, HD or SD advanced video decoding

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AVS HD/SD decoding

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Provides flexibility to support other codecs (DivX, XviD, H263 encode/decode,

Flash, Real, MJPEG)

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HD and SD decoding or dual SD decoding, PIP & Mosaic capable

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Real-time transcoding of MPEG2 SD to H264 SIF

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Advanced deblocking, mosquito noise reduction of decoded MPEG2 SD sources based

on ST’s digital source enhancer (DSE) technology with 2D analysis window and texture

adaptive filter

Audio

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ST231 CPU based audio decoder. MPEG1 I/II, MP3, Dolby Digital/DD+, MPEG4

AAC/AAC+, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD, DTS HD master audio multichannel audio

decoding

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Concurrent audio description decoding

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DD+ and AAC+ transcoding

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Integrated stereo audio DAC

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7.1-channel audio PCM output interface and separate stereo audio PCM output

interface

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Stereo audio PCM input interface

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Independent SPDIF output