ST ST-9150 User Manual

ST-9150

Low-cost advanced HD decoding IC for TV

Data brief

Features

■Advanced high definition video decoding (H264/VC-1/MPEG2)

■Advanced security and DRM support including SVP, MS-DRM, and DTCP-IP

■DVD data decryption

■Advanced standard definition video decoding (H264/VC-1/MPEG2/AVS)

■Advanced multi-channel audio decoding (MPEG 1, 2, MP3, DD/DD+, AAC/AAC+, WMA9/WMA9pro)

■Linux, Windows CE, and OS21 compatible ST40 applications CPU (450 MHz)

■32-bit DDR1/DDR2 compatible local memory interface

■Multi-stream, DVR capable transport stream processing

■Extensive connectivity (dual USB hosts, e-SATA, Ethernet MAC/MII/RMII, MPX, and PCI)

Description

The ST-9150 uses state of the art process technology to provide an ultra low-cost, fully featured HD AVC decoder IC. It is a highly integrated system-on-chip suitable for TV markets across all networks (cable/satellite/DTT/x- DSL/IP) worldwide. The ST-9150 is targeted at the latest Operator and CE manufacturer requirements for TVs which utilize advanced HD decoding (H264/VC-1/MPEG2), and which conform to DVB, ISMA,ATIS-IIF, SCTE, DirecTV, ATSC, ARIB, CEA, ITU, OpenCable and MSTV specifications.

6-channel

S/PDIF

Serial ATA

Line side

DDR1

PCM out

out

HDD, int/ext

Dual

DAA

Serial

JTAG

DDR2

2-ch

Audio L/R

Digital

USB 2.0

Peripheral I/O

SDRAM

hosts

and external interrupts

FLASH

PCM in

out

video in

16/32

Audio

DACs

Key

Comms

ST40-300 core 450 MHz

Scan

SPI

UDI

TMUs/INTC

MMU

Audio decoder

eSATA

USB

LMI

2x I/F

IR Tx/Rx

MAFE

2.0

players and

interface

SmCard

UHF Rx

interface

SSC/I2C

32 K I cache

32 K D cache

interfaces

ST231

USB

System

side

GPIOs

ILC

PWM

CPU/FPU core

core

DVP

2.0

UARTs

DAA

STBus


			Sec
	Dual		Sec
	Dual
	PTI
3	PTI		PDES




SWTS
2		2

TSmerger/router

Capture

Main video

DUAL

Delta Mu

Bdisp

Main/aux display

DEI

NSK

advanced

blitter

compositor and

display

FDMA

video decoder

pass through

ST231

Aux video

Clock gen

display

PCI

EMI

and

system

Ethernet,

services

Output

MAC

stage

TXT

DENC

6 DACs

HDMI

VTGs

DVO0

DVO1

Resets/

MII/RMII

Analog video

TMDS

Digital

FLASH

clocks/

output

video

(HD/SD)

NOR/NAND

modes

output 0

output 1

IN0

IN2

IN3

IN1/OUT0

SFLASH

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Description	ST-9150

1 Description

The ST-9150 provides a solution for operators to specify a range of low-cost, high performance HD TVs including low-cost Zappers, IP clients, Interactive TVs, DVR standalone and DVR server/home network capable TVs, and with content delivery possible using broadcast or broadband networks, or both (hybrid TVs). The ST-9150 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 ST-9150 offers current users of STs growing family of advanced decoding ICs enhancements in performance and features whilst reducing cost and time-to-market for the next generation deployments.

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ST-9150	Main features

2 Main features

The ST-9150 is a new, advanced decoding SoC targeted at next generation HD TVs (cable, terrestrial, satellite, DSL, IP, and Hybrid), and has the following features:

●Integrates in a single IC, Multi-stream transport demux, CPU, A/V decode, Video processing, Graphics and Display, Advanced security, TV peripherals, Audio/Video DACs, Digital A/V outputs, HDMI, e-SATA port, dual USB ports and Ethernet MAC/MII/RMII

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

–ST40-300, dual-issue, applications CPU, 32KI, 32KD caches: Target speed > 450 MHz delivering > 800DMIPs

●Single 32-bit DDR1/DDR2 Local Memory Interface (LMI), up to 400 MHz

●Latest generation “Delta” Video Decoder with ST231 programmable CPU core:

–MPEG2, H264, VC-1/WM9, HD or SD Advanced Video Decoding

–AVS SD decoding

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

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

–Real-time transcoding of MPEG2 SD to H264 SIF

●Advanced de-blocking and de-ringing of decoded MPEG2 SD sources based on ST’s DSE (Digital Source Enhancer) Technology with 2D analysis window and Texture Adaptive Filter

●ST231 CPU based Audio Decoder. MPEG1 I/II, MP3, Dolby Digital/DD+, MPEG4 AAC/AAC+ multi-channel audio decoding. Concurrent audio description decoding. DD+ and AAC+ transcoding

●Main and Aux Video display pipelines:

–Main: high quality H & V reformatting/resizing with sample rate conversion/filtering. Motion adaptive spatial and temporal de-interlacing for 480p/576p and 1080p60 progressive output

–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 200 Mpixels/sec with destination alpha blending. Capable of 3D user interface effects.

●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). HDMI interface is in full compliance with all features of v1.3a, excluding deep color, enhanced colorimetry (xvYCC, gamut metadata), and DST/DSD audio features.

●16-bit Digital Video Output for main display composition (HD/ED/SD formats up to 1080p60)

●Second 24-bit Digital Video Output for pass through display or main/aux display compositions (HD/ED/SD formats up to 1080p60)

●Macrovision and Dwight Cavendish copy protection support

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Main features	ST-9150

●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

●Integrated Stereo Audio DAC

●Six-channel Audio PCM Output Interface

●Stereo Audio PCM Input Interface

●Independent SPDIF output

●Quadruple external TS inputs, triple internal TS from memory

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

●Multi-stream transport stream de-multiplexing, 333 Mbits/sec, Quadruple tuner DVR capable

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

●CSS (DVD-video) and CPPM (DVD-audio) decryption is provided for the DVD stream.

●Dual USB 2.0 host interfaces both with PHY

●Integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC/MII/RMII, Wake on LAN, 75 MHz (300 Mbits/sec) capable

●16-bit External Memory and Peripheral Interface (EMI) - up to five banks

●Interfacing to, and boot from, NOR or NAND FLASH

●Interfacing to, and boot from, serial FLASH

●32-bit, 66 MHz, PCI Interface, shared on EMI with access interleaving possible

●MPX Interface/protocol for high speed, glue-less, communications with STv0498 DOCSIS Cable FE

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

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

●Dual Multi-channel Flexible DMA Controllers

●TV Peripherals

–Two Smart Card 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

●Advanced security - Secure control words, Code authentication, JTAG locking, Network/DVR copy protection, SVP, VGS, DTCP-IP, MS-DRM, MSTV

●Package - FPGBA 27 x 27mm, 620 balls, 7R32x32, Pitch 0.8 mm, Ball 0.5 mm.

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