The ALi M3329E is a cost effective, single-chip solution for DVB-S set-top box (STB) applICations. The M3329E integrated a QPSK demodulator, a high performance CPU, and a dedicated hardware BLOCK for TS stream demultiplexing, a TV encoder, a 2D graphic Engine, a flexible Scatter Gather DMA, a hardware accelerator for MPEG decoding and a dedicated display engine for STB playback.