Sigma Designs has begun sampling its new SMP8654 media processor system-on-a-chip (SoC), designed for the next generation of IPTV set-top boxes. The SMP8654 provides a 50 percent improvement in performance along with lower overall system costs to provide a substantially improved value proposition for the burgeoning IPTV market.
Sigma's SMP8654 media processor integrates a complete complement of next-generation capabilities for a single-chip SoC solution with multimedia processing, content security system, multiple on-chip CPUs and a full complement of system peripherals. Its combination of on-chip processors and memory controllers yield a 50 percent increase in overall performance. At the same time, by taking advantage of the latest memory components and integrated peripherals, the SMP8654 can reduce subsystem cost by around 30 percent compared to its predecessor, the SMP8634.
From a media processing standpoint, the SMP8654 offers a full complement of advanced decoder engines with HD video decoding, including H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10), Windows Media Video 9, VC-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Part 2 as well as the new AVS standard. High-performance graphics acceleration, multistandard audio decoding, advanced display processing capabilities and HDMI 1.3 output round out its multimedia core.
