Wednesday, May 21, 2003
IBM Microelectronics and Sony Business Europe's Semiconductor & Devices division have combined their respective front- and back-end set-top box technologies to offer suppliers and software developers a reference design for digital TV that targets terrestrial and satellite standards.
The companies announced the partnership at the MediaCast trade show being held here this week.
Set top makers, software and applications designers will receive driver source code, rather than usual object code, allowing them to focus on differentiated platforms.
The companies claim this approach reduces 'time-to-market' to under three months, with reduced resource investment. Current development times can be up to 12 months or more.
IBM and Sony are significant players in their respective front- and back-end digital set top technologies. Sony focuses on terrestrial and satellite tuner/demodulators, while IBM provides PowerPC integrated controllers and MPEG-2 subsystems.
The companies selected Wind River's latest Platform CD for designing the reference platform, allowing designers to use Wind River's cross-development tools including the DIAB compiler.
IBM and Sony have developed two platform variants, DVB-Terrestrial and DVB-Satellite. The reference board integrates IBM's set top controller based on the Power PC delivering 350 DMIPS, a DVB compliant demux, MPEG 2 audio and video decoders and a range of DTV peripheral IC's from Sony, including a Cofdm demodulators and a single-package silicon QPSK tuner and demodulator.
By: DocMemory
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