Datasheet STi7106 Datasheet (ST)

STi7106

Advanced HD decoder

Data brief

Features

■ Advanced high-definition video decoding

(H264/VC-1/MPEG2/AVS)

■ Advanced standard-definition video decoding

(H264/VC-1/MPEG2/AVS)

■ Advanced multichannel audio decoding

(MPEG 1, 2, MP3, DD/DD+, AAC/AAC+,
WMA9/WMA9pro, Dolby TrueHD, DTS/DTS­HD/DTS-HD master)

■ Linux, Windows CE, and OS21 compatible

ST40 applications CPU (450 MHz)

■ 16/32-bit DDR2 compatible local memory

interface

■ Multistream, DVR capable transport stream

processing

Resets Analog out

JTAG

CPU/FPU

ST40 450MHz

MMU
Interrupts
I cache
D cache
Timer
Debug

Clocks
Modes

Clock gen
system serv

Dual FDMA

Bdisp blitter

PCM I/O
S/PDIF out External interrupts

Audio I/O

PCM players
PCM reader
DACs

Audio decoder

ST231 CPU

■ Extensive connectivity (dual USB hosts, dual

e-SATA, Ethernet MAC/MII/RMII/GMII, 2
Ethernet MAC/MII/RMII, MMC/SD/SDIO, and
PCI)

■ Advance security and DRM support including

SVP, MS-DRM, DivX, and DTCP-IP

■ BD/DVD data decryption and advanced

content protection

Description

The STi7106 uses ST’s state of the art process
technology to provide a fully featured HD AVC
decoder IC.

It is a highly integrated system-on-chip suitable for
STB markets across all networks
(cable/satellite/DTT/x-DSL/IP) worldwide.

STB peripherals I/O

Peripherals

SSC
UART
MAFE
PWM
Infrared
Smartcard

System

interfaces

EMI
PCI
SPI
LMI

MMC/SD

Flash, SFlash

Flash, SFlash
NOR, NAND

NOR, NAND

PCI Peripherals

Serial Flash

DDR2

Memory

nd

STBus

Transport
security

Dual PTI
TS merger

Transport streams
Parallel/serial in/out

Video decoder

ST231 CPU
DeltaMu

Display

Video planes
Graphic planes
Cursor plane
Main VDP
Aux VDP
Deinterlacer
Capture

Video I/O

DVOs
Denc
Teletext
DACs
HDMI
VTGs
DVP

Digital video HD/SD in/out
Analog video HD/SD out

USB

e-SATA

Connectivity

Ethernet

DAA

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Introduction STi7106

1 Introduction

The STi7106 is targeted at the latest operator and CE manufacturer requirements for STBs
and Blu-ray DVD players, which utilize advanced HD decoding (H264/VC-1/MPEG2/AVS),
and which conform to DVB, ISMA, ATIS-IIF, SCTE, DirecTV, ATSC, ARIB, CEA, ITU,
OpenCable, MSTV, and BD specifications.

The STi7106 provides a solution for operators to specify a range of cost-efficient, high
performance HD STBs including cost-efficient zappers, IP clients, interactive STBs, DVR
standalone and DVR server/home network capable STBs, and with content delivery
possible using broadcast or broadband networks, or both (hybrid STBs).

The STi7106 keeps pace with the latest conditional access, DRM and trusted platform
requirements of major operators worldwide by incorporating the latest generation of
advanced security features.

The STi7106 offers current users of ST’s growing family of advanced decoding ICs
enhancements in performance and features whilst reducing cost and time to market for the
next generation deployments.

Features Benefits

NAND Flash or Serial Flash based secure boot
and code storage

ST40-300 applications CPU @450MHz, 32 KI
cache, 32 KD cache

Enables further BOM optimization and cost
reduction of advanced decoding HD STBs

Up to 800 DMIPs superscalar performance from a
single CPU core using standard tools and
operating systems (Linux, OS21)

ST's Delta decoding system with ST231
processor

Decoding of advanced high definition standards for
broadcast (MPEG2, H264, VC-1, and AVS for
China markets) plus performance and flexibility for
web-based content decoding such as Flash, DivX,
MJPEG and Real

Dual USB 2.0 hosts, Dual e-SATA, PCI, SD­MMC/SDIO, 10/100 Ethernet MAC/MII and a
10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC with MII/RMII/TMII
and GMII interfaces

Extensive high speed connectivity for attaching to
the widest range of STB peripherals, such as Flash
drives, internal and external HDDs, home network
controllers (e.g. MoCA, Wi-Fi, HomePlug),
DOCSIS modem, memory cards and support for
Gigabit Ethernet interfacing

Low power process, design and architecture Best in class lowest power standby mode to meet

emerging energy standards for STBs. Dynamic
configuration of power to individual subsystems
enables power efficient active standby modes

Advanced 2D graphics and display subsystem
with Tile RAM bandwidth saver supports also 3D
user interface effects

1080p60 display output with deep color support
over HDMI 1.3

Allows more visually appealing program guides,
user interfaces and video rich navigation to be
offered to consumers

High quality progressive output can be watched on
the latest high definition displays with enhanced
color vividness

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1.1 STi7106 features summary

The STi7106 has the following main features:

CPU

● High performance CPUs for applications (ST40) and audio/video decoding (2 x ST231)

– ST40-300, dual-issue, applications CPU, 32 KI, 32 KD caches, MMU, FPU

– Target speed 450 MHz delivering > 800 DMIPs

System and memory interfaces

● Single 16/32-bit DDR2 local memory interface (LMI), up to 400 MHz

● 16-bit external memory and peripheral interface (EMI) - up to five banks

● Interfacing to, and boot from, parallel NOR or NAND Flash

● High speed SPI port for interfacing to and boot from Serial Flash

– Supports standard SPI and dual I/O protocols

● MMC 4.2/SD 2.0 interface

● 32-bit, 33 MHz, PCI interface, shared on EMI with access interleaving possible

● Disc-less timeslip feature supported via NAND Flash (raw or managed) attached to

EMI, USB, or MMC interfaces

Video decoding

● Latest generation “Delta” video decoder with ST231 programmable CPU core:

– MPEG2, H264, VC-1/WM9, HD or SD advanced video decoding

– AVS HD/SD decoding

– Provides flexibility to support other codecs (DivX, XviD, H263 encode/decode,

Flash, Real, MJPEG)

– HD and SD decoding or dual SD decoding, PIP & Mosaic capable

– Real-time transcoding of MPEG2 SD to H264 SIF

● Advanced deblocking, mosquito noise reduction of decoded MPEG2 SD sources based

on ST’s digital source enhancer (DSE) technology with 2D analysis window and texture
adaptive filter

Audio

● ST231 CPU based audio decoder. MPEG1 I/II, MP3, Dolby Digital/DD+, MPEG4

AAC/AAC+, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD, DTS HD master audio multichannel audio
decoding

– Concurrent audio description decoding

– DD+ and AAC+ transcoding

● Integrated stereo audio DAC

● 7.1-channel audio PCM output interface and separate stereo audio PCM output

interface

● Stereo audio PCM input interface

● Independent SPDIF output

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Display and output

● Main and aux video display pipelines:

– Main: high quality H & V reformatting/resizing with sample rate conversion/filtering.

Motion and detail adaptive spatial and temporal deinterlacing for 480p/576p and
1080p60 progressive output; film mode detection

– Aux: high quality H & V reformatting/resizing with sample rate conversion/filtering

● Three independent graphics planes with H & V resize, CLUT and anti-flicker filtering

● Link list based 2D graphics blitter

– Up to 266 Mpixels/sec with destination alpha blending

– Capable of high performance animated 3D user interface effects with tile RAM

bandwidth saver enhancement

– Run length decoding support for BD

● Independent main and aux display compositions (video/graphics mixing)

● Pass-through display for graphics, main video or aux video output concurrently with

main and aux compositions

● HD display capture and down-conversion for concurrent HD and SD output of the main

composition

● HDMI interface with HDCP copy protection (HD/ED/SD formats up to 1080p60)

– Is in full compliance with all features of v1.3a, including deep color, enhanced

colorimetry pass through (xvYCC, gamut metadata), 8 ch PCM, high bit rate
(HBR) audio, and CEC

● Display output:

– 16-bit digital video output (DVO) for main display composition (HD/ED/SD formats

up to 1080p60)

– Second 24-bit DVO for pass through display or main/aux display compositions

(HD/ED/SD formats up to 1080p60)

– Macrovision and Dwight Cavendish copy protection support

– PAL/NTSC/SECAM digital encoder

– Six 10-bit DACs for component/composite analog video output (HD/ED/SD

formats up to 1080i)

● SD/HD digital video input port, 8- or 16-bit YCbCr

Connectivity

● Dual USB 2.0 host interfaces both with PHY

● Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet GMAC, Wake-on-LAN, multiple h/w address filters

– Supports 10/100 MII/RMII, Turbo-MII (TMII) up to 300 Mbits/sec and GMII up to

1000 Mbits/sec

● Second Ethernet MAC supporting 10/100 MII/RMII

● Soft modem support: integrated MAFE: integrated system side DAA (Si-Labs)

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Transport/security

● Quadruple external TS inputs, triple internal TS from memory

● Dual DVB-CI+ (HD/SD profiles) modules supported

● Multistream transport stream demultiplexing, 400 Mbits/sec, quadruple tuner DVR

capable

● DVB/DES/TDES/AES/Multi-2/ICAM descrambling

● DVR supported, with HDD attachment through e-SATA, EIDE (PIO mode) or USB

● CSS (DVD-video), CPRM (DVD-RW), and CPPM (DVD-audio) decryption is provided

for the DVD stream

● Blu-ray DVD (BD) security: BD+/AACS

● Advanced security:

– Secure control words

– Secure boot with code authentication

– JTAG locking

– Network/DVR copy protection

STB peripherals and package

● On-chip STB peripherals:

– Two smartcard interfaces

–Four UARTs

– Four SSC/I2C

– GPIO banks with alternate functions

–IR Tx/Rx

– UHF Rx/SCD

–PWM

–ILC

–HDMI CEC

– 4 x 4 key matrix scanner

● Package:

– FPGBA 27 x 27mm

– 620 balls

– Pitch 0.8 mm

– Ball 0.5 mm

– Ball to ball compatible with STi7105 with additional balls assigned

● Dual multichannel flexible DMA controllers

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Target applications STi7106

2 Target applications

The STi7106 integrates in a single IC, multistream transport demultiplexing, applications
CPU, A/V decode, video processing, graphics and display, advanced security, STB
peripherals, audio/video DACs, digital A/V outputs, HDMI, dual e-SATA ports, dual USB
ports, dual Ethernet controllers (1x GbE capable) and MMC/SD/SDIO card controller.

Figure 1. IP client HD STB (wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection)

Wi-Fi module

Front panel

Serial
Flash

DDR2

display and controls

Smartcard

ST8024

USB power

Dual I/O SPI

LMI

PIOs/IRRX

SC0/UART0

control

PCI

STi7106

RESET

USB 2.0

USB

JTAG

DCU

MII

TMDS/DDC/CEC

SSC2-I2C

YC, CVBS

30 MHz

Analog
audio, L/R

S/PDIF

Ethernet

RJ45

PHY

STv6432

E2PROM

HDMI

Left

Right

CVBS

Svideo

Audio

S/PDIF

Power supply

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Figure 2. Hybrid DTT/IP HD STB

Tu ne r

SLC NAND
Flash

Front panel

STv036x

Time-shift
option

MMC/SD

memory

DDR2

E2PROM

display and controls

Smartcard

USB power

control

TS input

SSC3-I2C

SSC2-I2C

PIOs/IRRx

EMI

MMC

LMI

2x USB 2.0

USB

STi7106

USB

TMDS/DDC/CEC

YPbPr

SSC2-I2C

YC, CVBS

Analog

audio, L/R

S/PDIF

GMII

30 MHz

STv6440

STv6432

Gbit Ethernet

RJ45

PHY

HDMI

YPbPr option

Left

Right

Y

Pb

Pr

CVBS

Svideo

Audio

S/PDIF

ST8024

SC0/UART0

RESET

JTAG

DCU

Power supply

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Figure 3. Dual tuner DVB-C/IP HD DVR STB with MoCA

Tu ne r

Tu ne r

MoCA

RF

SLC NAND

Flash

DDR2

Front panel
display and controls

Smartcard

ST8024

STv297E

STv297E

MoCA
MAC/PHY

Display driver
or FP

UART0

USB power

control

TS input

SSC0-I2C

TS input

SSC1-I2C

SSC1-I2C

µP

PIOs/IRRx

TMII

EMI

LMI

UART1

USB

STi7106

RESET

2x USB 2.0

USB

JTAG

DCU

MII

eSATA

TMDS/DDC/CEC

SSC3-I2C

RGB

YC, CVBS

30 MHz

Analog

audio, L/R

S/PDIF

STv6417

Ethernet

RJ45

PHY

Left

Right

HDMI

E2PROM

Aux/Loop-through
SCART

TV SCART

Audio

S/PDIF

Power supply

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Figure 4. Multi tuner DVB-C/IP HD DVR STB with DOCSIS

Tu ne r

Tu ne r

Tu ne r

Tu ne r

SLC NAND

Flash

DDR2

Front panel
display and controls

Smartcard

ST8024

STv297E

STv0498+

STv0130

SDRAM

Flash

Display driver
or FP

µP

PIOs/IRRx

UART0

USB power

control

TS input

SSC0-I2C

TS input

TS input

SSC1-I2C

MII

EMI

LMI

UART1

USB

STi7106

RESET

2x USB 2.0

USB

JTAG

DCU

GMII

eSATA1

eSATA2

TMDS/DDC/CEC

SSC3-I2C

RGB

YC, CVBS

30 MHz

Analog

audio, L/R

S/PDIF

STv6417

Gbit Ethernet

RJ45

PHY

HDMI

E2PROM

Left

Right

Aux/Loop-through
SCART

TV SCART

Audio

S/PDIF

Power supply

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Figure 5. Dual tuner DVB-S2/IP HD DVR STB

STv6120

AGC/I2C

SLC NAND

Flash

DDR2

Front panel
display and controls

Smartcard

ST8024

RJ11

LNB H24

DiSEqC

STv

900D

Display driver
or FP

UART0

USB power

control

SSC0-I2C

TS input

TS input

SSC1-I2C

System

side
DAA

µP

PIOs/IRRx

DAA

EMI

LMI

UART1

USB

STi7106

RESET

2x USB 2.0

USB

JTAG

DCU

GMII

eSATA1

eSATA2

TMDS/DDC/CEC

YPbPr

YC, CVBS

30 MHz

Analog

audio, L/R

S/PDIF

STv6440

Gbit Ethernet

RJ45

PHY

HDMI

Left

Right

Y

Pb

Pr

CVBS

Svideo

Audio

S/PDIF

Power supply

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STi7106 Ordering information

3 Ordering information

Table 1. Ordering information

Order code Packaging Description

STi7106ZUA FPBGA 27 x 27 mm Development version, all options.

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Revision history STi7106

4 Revision history

Table 2. Document revision history

Date Revision Changes

29-Oct-2009 1 Initial release.

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