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Low cost DVD recorders
Digital video recorders (DVRs)
Home media servers
LSI Logic DiMeNsion
8600
DVD Recorder System Processor
DMN-8600
Host
DRAM
DDR/SDR
SDRAM
Clock
(27 MHz or
13.5 Crytsal)
Core
Power
I/O
Power
Ground
JTAG
ATAPI/
DVD (SD)
CD/SBP
IEEE1394
Link
Link
SIO
A_OUT
Optional generic
16/32-bit
Host Interface
Dual Port (4 Channels)
8-bit YUV
8/16-bit YUV
Quad Port (8 Channels)
S/PDIF
UART1
UART2
IR Remote
IR Blaster
SPI
IDC
V_OUT
A_In
V_IN
Bitstream/
Storage
Figure 1: DMN-8600 I/Os
O V E R V I E W
The LSI Logic DiMeNsion
8600 (DMN-8600) is the world’s first fully
integrated DVD recorder system processor. Based on LSI Logic’s DoMiNo
architec-
ture, the DiMeNsion family of products is intended for demanding, yet cost-sensitive,
single-stream A/V codec applications in consumer electronics products.
The DMN-8600 represents a true system-on-a-chip solution, reducing cost,
design complexity, power consumption, and time-to-market through its high level of
system integration and its use of LSI Logic’s C-Ware
software environment. The
DMN-8600 supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DV-25 encoding, decoding, transrating
and transcoding. The DMN-8600 also supports DVD playback, recording, and simul-
taneous encoding and playback of DVD streams to optical disc, enabling digital video
recording (DVR)/timeshifting applications to be developed on DVD-RAM, DVD-RW,
DVD+RW, and other recording drives. The DMN-8600 represents a quantum leap in
performance, allowing multiple A/V streams to execute simultaneously.
With its embedded, dual 32-bit RISC-based host processors with dedicated
DSP units, the DMN-8600 delivers up to 600 MIPS of processing power. This allows
the DMN-8600 to simultaneously handle multiple A/V processing functions while
managing all system control tasks, eliminating the need for an external host CPU. The
DMN-8600 also integrates a dedicated video processor and motion estimation engine
that enables advanced image processing tasks. LSI Logic’s proprietary TrueScan Pro
de-interlacing and TrueView Pro
input video filtering algorithms leverage these
processing elements to deliver the highest quality images available in the market.
The DMN-8600 also performs all audio processing tasks, supporting industry stan-
dard audio encoding and decoding formats, as well as audio post-processing tasks
such as 3D audio effects and bass management functions.
The DMN-8600 is compatible with LSI Logic’s C-Ware architecture,which
provides hardware abstraction and an object-oriented programming environment that
is reusable across LSI Logic DoMiNo- and ZiVA-based consumer digital video prod-
ucts. C-Ware is implemented in standard ANSI C/C++, provides certified software
library components and standardized API. C-Ware is compatible with WindRiver
Systems
VxWorks RTOS and is compatible with commercially available software
development tools.