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BrightScale BA 1024 Programmable Media Processor (PDF)
BrightScale Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, is developing groundbreaking video processing platforms that enable exciting new capabilities in digital video and image processing.
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BrightScale BA 1024 Programmable Media Processor
Our latest product, the BrightScale BA 1024 — programmable media processor is engineered for the most demanding consumer and industrial digital video and signal processing applications. It supports dual MPEG2 transport streams and simultaneous decoding of dual HD H.264, VC-1 and MPEG2 video, while leaving enough processing headroom to support simultaneous advanced signal pre- and post processing algorithms (e.g., 3D filters, motion-compensated de-interlacing and human perceptual mapping optimizations). The result is a platform that enables a best-in-class viewing experience throughout the life of the end product—even as algorithms improve over time.
Rapid application development is supported through a family of kits that offer application specific reference designs, board support packages and software tools.
BrightScale BA 1024 Block Diagram
Consumer Applications
- High-Definition Set-top Box (STB)
- DSL, Cable and Satellite
- High-Definition Integrated DTV (iDTV)
- OTA and Cable Ready DTV
- High-Definition Personal Video Recorder
- High-Definition DVD Recorder
- High-Definition Digital Media Adapter
Industrial Applications
- High-Definition Head-End Video Encoder/Multiplexer
- Multi-stream Digital Video Recorder(DVR) – Surveillance
Features
BrightScale Array Video Processor Core
- High-performance programmable video processor enables support for ANY codec
- Supports wide array of pre/post processing, graphics acceleration, font rendering and alpha blending
Two Complete A/V Channels
- Two configurable video and two configurable audio input ports
- Inputs
- Supports any combination of BT.601/656, 8/16/24 bit RBG/YCrCb or MPEG2 TS input with dedicated PID filter logic
- 2x I2S audio input
- Outputs
- Dual 656/709 SD/HD digital video outputs
- 4x I2S or 1x S/PDIF digital audio outputs
- Dedicated MPEG2 DVB/ATSC compliant transport processor
Integrated “glueless” DDR2 DRAM Controller
- 64-bit wide X 400 MHz data rate
- Supports up to 25.6 Gbps memory bandwidth
Codec Support
- Dual HD Stream Video Decode
- MPEG2 MP@HL
- H.264 MP@L4.1
- WMV/VC1 MP@AP@L3
- HD Video Encode/Transcode
- MPEG2 MP@HL
- H.264 MP@/L4.1
- Dual Stream Audio Decode
- AC3 (2, 5.1 & 7.1)
- MPEG Audio Layer 1 & 2
- DTS+
- MPEG2 LC-AAC (2.0 & 5.1)
- MPEG4 HE-AAC (Level 2 & 4)
- MP3
- Audio Encode
- AC3 (2, 5.1 & 7.1)
Flexible Implementations
- Glueless NOR Flash interface
- Local Boot or Host download
- On-chip 200 MHz 32-bit Host CPU
PCI V2.2 Interface
- Support for Master and Target operation
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