MPEG-2 Video Decoder for 1080p Single Stream or 1080i Dual Stream

Silicon Image’s M2VD-2HL is designed to be used in system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for DVD and STB/DTV markets. With its extensive set of features M2VD-2HL enables companies to easily provide functions like parallel viewing and recording, picture-in-picture or simultaneous viewing of several channels in television, PC or other relevant environments.

The M2VD-2HL decoder is optimized to satisfy a wide range of applications and technologies with optimal performance at lowest possible silicon costs. Its interfaces are optimized for easy integration into an SoC architecture using the standard onchip bus approach. This dramatically reduces the integration effort and enables fast time-to-market developments.

Applications: Digital Set-top Boxes , DLP TVs , DVD Players / Recorders , HDTVs - Projection & CRT , LCD TVs , Plasma TVs / Displays , Portable Multimedia Players , Set-top Boxes

Other Features & Benefits

• ISO/IEC 13818-2 - MPEG-2 Main Profile @ High Level
• ISO/IEC 11172-2 - MPEG-1 constrained parameter set
• Support of all ATSC and DVB HDTV formats
• Real-time decoding of multiple streams only limited by frequency.
• Error detection and autonomous error concealment with concealment vectors on slice, macroblock and block layer
• Counter for concealed MBs within a picture and threshold register which indicates the level of interrupt generation
• Software access to relevant internal registers and parameter stores to provide the possibility of a flexible error handling and a robust and error tolerant decoding control
• Decoding of Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) and Elementary Stream (ES)