Broadcom this week announced a new digital video decoder system on a chip that will decode H.264, MPEG2 and VC- 1, cut in a 65 nanometer process and employing a dual-core MIPS32 CPU.
Broadcom was showing off the chip at this week’s CableLabs Conference, aiming it at integration into set tops.
“Our new 65 nanometer solution provides our customers with the industry’s most advanced, highest performance, and most integrated solution for dual advanced video decoder media center set-top boxes,” said John Gleiter, Senior Director of Marketing for Broadcom’s Set-top Box line of business.
The BCM7400B video decoder enables set-top box manufacturers to develop high performance media centers, integrating functions such as HDTV, VoD, Internet access, and digital music, and it comes with special hardware support for both MoCA (Multimedia Over Coax Alliance) and 802.11n Wi-Fi for developing multi-room DVRs.
The company said that the chip will provide the required processing power to run JAVA-based OCAP applications and offers dual 3 Gbps SATA interface so that very high speed disk drives can be attached, with upwards of 1 TB of memory
The chip is claimed to have enough processing power to simultaneously record and playback 8 TV channels to multiple clients.