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TOSHIBA UNVEILS NEW AVM79R REFERENCE
DESIGN FOR MEDIA CENTER APPLICATIONS
First Product Demonstration Took
Place at CeBIT SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2003
-- Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*
today announced a new TX7901 MIPS reduced instruction
set computer (RISC) processor-based AVM79R reference
design. This leading-edge evaluation system is targeted
at media center applications. TAEC will make its reference
design available starting in April 2003 to manufacturers
seeking to reduce development costs and speed time-to-market
for digital set-top boxes, media gateways and other multimedia
consumer electronic platforms that manage networked home
entertainment products. The first demonstration of the
reference design took place at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany
on March 12, 2003.
Tetsuro Wada, business development and technical marketing
director of TX RISC Business Unit at TAEC said, "Based
on our overall strategy for Entertainment Home Gateway,
we have developed the AVM79R reference design that includes
a Toshiba TMPR7901XB superscalar MIPS-based RISC processor,
a Toshiba TC86C001FG IDE/USB companion chip and VWEB's
VW2010 MPEG1/2/4 CODEC. It enables the customers and
software developers to port and integrate required leading-edge
software technologies. It can be applied to various applications
like set-top boxes, home gateways and personal video
recorders."
Mr Hisayuki Suzuki, executive vice president of VWEB
Corporation said, "We are very pleased and excited to
work with Toshiba, Lineo and multiple other companies
to produce the AVM79R reference design. By combining
the power of VWEB's MPEG-1, -2 and -4 codec, with transcoding
and translating capability, Lineo's Embedded Linux and
Toshiba's microprocessor, we have created a complete
solution for media home gateway, IP-set-top boxes and
video networking."
The TX RISC Business Unit of TAEC is collaborating with
a number of software companies to produce the AVM79R
reference design. The list includes the following:
- ACCESS Co. Ltd. (www.access.co.jp),
NetFrontT Internet browser
- Macrovision Corporation (www.macrovision.com),
Digital Rights management
- Mediabolic, Inc. (www.mediabolic.com),
software for networked entertainment devices
in the home
- Lineo uSolutions, Inc. (www.lineo.co.jp)
embedded Linux solutions
- Planetweb, Inc. (www.planetweb.com),
software applications, graphic user interfaces
and integration services for the Consumer Electronics
market
- SecureMedia (www.securemedia.com),
EncryptoniteT encryption and Digital Rights Management
systems
- SNAPGear (www.snapgear.com),
gateway protocol stack and system integration
- VWEB Corp. (www.vwebcorp.com)
MPEG -1/-2/-4 codec and steaming software
- ZAO Networks, Inc. (www.zaonet.com),
interactive set-top box and system integration
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About the AVM79R Reference Design
| Host CPU |
TMPR7901XB-200: Toshiba
superscalar 64-bit MIPS RISC processor |
| MPEG-2/-4
codec |
VW2010: VWEB Corp. full
D1 MPEG-4 support, MPEG-2/-4 transcoding |
| Companion
Chip |
TC86C001FG: Toshiba
Universal Serial Bus (USB) host/device, Integrated
Drive Electronics (IDE) Ultra-DMA mode 4 interface
and Inter-IC bus interface |
| Embedded
Storage |
Built-in hard disk drive
and DVD drive |
| Interfaces |
Peripheral Controller Interconnect, USB 1.1 host/device,
Ethernet Media Access Controller, S-Video (In/Out),
Composite (In/Out), Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect
Format, IDE (ATA66MB) and General Purpose input/output
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| Software |
MPEG streaming, personal video recorder, video
on demand, Digital Radio Mondiale, Quality of Service,
Home Network Protocol, Residential Gateway stacks,
Voice over IP, etc.
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| Availability |
April 2003
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| Pricing |
US$3,000.00 each
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*About TAEC
Combining quality and flexibility with design engineering
expertise, TAEC brings a breadth of advanced, next-generation
technologies to its customers. This broad offering
includes semiconductors, flash memory-based storage
solutions, optical communication devices, displays
and rechargeable batteries for the computing, wireless,
networking, automotive and digital consumer markets.
TAEC is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba
America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba, the second largest
semiconductor company worldwide in terms of global sales
for the year 2001 according to Gartner/Dataquest's Worldwide
Semiconductor Market Share Ranking. Toshiba is a world
leader in high-technology products with more than 300
major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. For additional
company and product information, please visit TAEC's
website at chips.toshiba.com.
For technical inquiries, please e-mail Tech.Questions@taec.toshiba.com or
contact Akira Iwata, TAEC TX RISC Business Unit, email: iwataa@taec.com.
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