ESS Technology, Inc.

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ESS Technology, Inc.

ES3210

Video CD Processor

Product Brief

DESCRIPTION

The ES3210 Video CD processor is a highly integrated,

high quality and cost-effective single-chip solution for Video

CD players. Based upon ESS’s Programmable Multimedia

Processor (PMP) architecture, the ES3210 integrates

MPEG1 video and audio processing and a full MPEG

system stream parser. The ES3210 is fully programmable

and incorporates a RISC-based 32-bit processor as an on-

chip video controller (VC) and a supporting 64-bit

processor core that functions as an on-chip video

processor (VP).

The VC module can be used as a microcontroller to provide

system and user interface controls, while also being able to

support embedded systems applications. The VP module

performs MPEG audio and video processing operations

such as arbitrary scaling, video standards conversion and

video filtering. The MPEG1 system layer bitstream is

decoded at up to 9 Mb/s at Standard Intermediate Format

(SIF) resolution with a picture rate of 30 f/s. Two channels

of MPEG layer 1 or audio layer 2 are decoded

simultaneously.

enabling in/out zooming of a particular area of a still picture.

Additional features include DiscScan, TrackScan, QuickScan, On-

Screen-Display (OSD), Karaoke, Playback Control (PBC) for

Video CD 2.0, Smart Art and entertainment game software.

The incoming MPEG1 bit stream from a video CD is passed

to the ES3210 through its five-wire TDM serial bus, parses the

system layer and demultiplexes the video and audio

channels. Video is decoded and output as YUV or RGB

digital pixels to an NTSC or PAL video DAC/encoder, then

to the screen. Audio is decoded and passed to the

speakers via the audio serial bus, then to an audio DAC.

The ES3210 also has general-purpose auxiliary pins and

an integrated audio Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)

interface to reduce the need for external audio glue logic.

When coupled with the ES3207 Video CD Companion

Chip, echo cancellation and vocal reverb are also

supported.

The

echo

cancellation

feature

removes

unwanted acoustic reflection from the audio output, while

the vocal reverb feature simulates a theater acoustic

environment.

The ES3210 is available in an industry-standard 100-pin

Thin Quad Flat Pack (TQFP) device package.

FEATURES

package.

karaoke lyric and subtitle text display functions.

Video

supported.

supported.

Audio

Software Support

RFC 791 and RFC 793.

Internet e-mail protocols defined by RFC 821, RFC

1157and RFC 2449.

browsing protocol defined by RFC 1945, RFC 2068 and

RFC2616.

MPEG-1/2 and H.261 video streaming protocols defined by

Character generation and software support for English,

Big 5/GB Chinese and Japanese fonts.

keyboard.