NEC Electronics and CCDT Introduce Turnkey Solution for Economical Set Top Boxes

NEC Electronics and CCDT Introduce Turnkey Solution for Economical Set Top Boxes

NEC Electronics Corporation, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions, and Beijing Cycle Century Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (CCDT), one of China's leading design houses, today introduced a turnkey solution for set top boxes (STBs) that enables STB manufacturers to bring new systems to market with minimal cost and effort. The solutions, based on NEC Electronics' EMMATM2SL/S single-chip MPEG decoder, are designed primarily for satellite broadcast but can be adopted to fit terrestrial and cable broadcasts as well. The solution is compliant with the DVB-S MPEG2 standard used throughout Asia and Europe, and is compatible with both PAL and NTSC broadcasting standards, as well as VBI teletext.

Comprehensive Hardware and Software Solution Enables Quick Development of STBs

Advanced scanning functions automatically search for viewable channels, automatically skipping those channels without broadcasts. Furthermore, a multi-picture display in four, nine, ten, 13, or 16-frame configuration enables channel previews, allowing the viewer to instantly select from among many channels, instead of flipping through consecutive channels. In addition, the EMMA2SL/S turnkey solution allows storage of up to 4,000 programs in its memory bank.

NEC Electronics and CCDT collaborated to develop these easy-to-implement solutions. CCDT was responsible for designing the board, and developed application software. NEC Electronics provided the EMMA2SL/S MPEG decoder, and developed new driver software.