Toshiba Ready to Meet Worldwide Demand for Digital TV
As a pioneer in developing numerous consumer electronic products, Toshiba has a deep understanding of the consumer market and is able to quickly bring your market leading designs to life.
The Toshiba platform solutions are backed by the company's vast manufacturing and engineering resources and responsive technical and design support.
The Toshiba platform solutions can be readily customized for specific end companies by an ODM and are suitable for digital TV applications worldwide.
The platform supports U.S., European and Japanese TV standards (ATSC, DVB and ARIB).
Advanced technologies include a single-chip LCD TV controller, MPEG decoders, frequency detection, auto synchronization and more.
Toshiba is a world leader1 in semiconductors with consumer product expertise
Digital TV is the rising star of consumer electronics as television moves towards the all-digital age. Driven by the mandate all U.S. broadcast television stations must be completely converted to digital terrestrial transmissions by 2009, Toshiba now supports platform solutions that provide a ready-to-use bill-of-materials for quick deployment of new digital technologies for digital TV applications.
The Toshiba digital TV product portfolio consists of platform solutions that bundle software, reference designs and a selection of high-end to low-end system-on-chip (SoC) ICs. These ICs fit a range of TV designs by delivering various levels of performance, integration and price. The Toshiba analog/video and comb filter front-end processors complete the reference design for digital television, set-top box and other broadcast video electronic products.
The Toshiba digital TV product portfolio is comprised of two product families and an LCD controller chip. Toshiba supports hardware and software development requirements with reference designs, drivers and firmware, operating systems, ATSC middleware, and application/user interface development tools.
New SoC for Mass-market ATSC HD LCD TVs and a Customizable, Universal Platform for Digital TV Applications
Toshiba has expanded its popular line of system-on-a-chip (SoC) ICs for mass-market ATSC high-definition LCD TVs. The TC90413XBG SoC features a level of integration previously unseen in SoCs intended for use in
designing mass market HDTVs for the North American market. Additionally, the TC90413XBG is available as part of TAEC's new Toshiba Customizable Universal DTV Platform that includes ready-to-manufacture hardware and production software to provide OEMs with a complete HDTV system, fully customizable to support different international standards and markets. Press Releases
Product Family
TC90413XBG chip for ATSC digital TV applications (HD decode, HDMI 1.3, 1080p panel support.)
TC90400XBG and TC90400FG cost-effective, single-chip ICs for mid- to low-end DTV and STB applications (Dual SD or single HD decode, SD 720p or 1080i output, IDE, USB)
TC90407XBG designed for North American TV standards with more on-chip functional blocks that reduce system cost and new algorithms that improve picture quality compared to previous generation products
TC90240XBG chip uses Motion Estimation and Motion Compensation to build new frames for 100 Hz and 120 Hz LCD panels.
Family of Digital TV ICs with various levels of performance, integration and price
System block diagram for ATSC Digital TV
New White Paper: Building a Digital to Analog Converter Box
Examines the implications of the Congressional mandate to end analog TV transmissions.
Explains an NTIA-administered coupon program that lets U.S. households request coupons as subsidy for the converter boxes.
Provides technical perspective about the NTIA technical specifications and features to which converter-box manufacturers must adhere.
Describes the Toshiba TC90407XBG single-chip solution.
1iSuppli: World's Top 10 Semiconductor Supplier Rankings for 2006 - Toshiba ranks number four.
