"As part of Toshiba Corporation's overall strategy for the digital consumer market, Toshiba engineers designed the TC81240TBG HD digital multimedia decoder to address system requirements for the digital consumer vertical market segment," said Farhad Mafie, vice president of the ASSP Business Unit at TAEC. "The highly-integrated, high-performance, peripheral component interconnect (PCI)-based single-chip device incorporates a 64-bit MIPS-based RISC processor, MPEG-2 HD video decoder, a 2D graphics processor, an audio digital signal processor (DSP), an NTSC/PAL/SECAM video encoder and a transport stream demultiplexing processor. This device complements other Toshiba products for the digital consumer market and positions Toshiba as the true system solution provider in the digital consumer segment."

Key features of the TC81240TBG are as follows:       

• Integrated 200MHz 64-bit MIPS-based RISC TX49 CPU with 32K-bytes each of instruction and data cache.
• 2-channel MPEG-2 (MP@HL) decoding; supports all Advanced Television Systems Committee formats.
• Can decode four channels of standard-definition television.
• Uses unified memory architecture; the same memory chips can be used for the CPU and multimedia functions.
• Supports multiple audio standards, including Advanced Audio Coding, Dolby Digital, MPEG-1 layers 1, 2 and 3.
• Incorporates high-quality video capture and display functions.
• Contains a versatile scaler to output multiple pictures on the screen.
• Integrated NTSC/PAL/SECAM video encoder.
• Includes a secondary video encoder for VCR recording.
• Contains a bit block transfer engine and alpha blending for high-quality on-screen displays.
• Supports worldwide conditional access systems, including DES, TDES, DVB and Multi-2 descramblers.
• Integrated input/output, including universal serial bus (USB), PCI, universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter, general-purpose input/output, SmartCard and Inter-IC bus.