Description

General

The STi5167 is the latest in the family of STBus set-top box ICs providing high-performance,

ow-cost system-on-chip (SoC) for MPEG processing in digital terrestrial STBs. It is derived

from the STi5107, with the addition of a DVB-T COFDM demodulator and supports multiple

platforms using a unified architecture. STi5167 is compatible with the latest CA advanced

security specifications.

The STi5167 delivers enhanced performance with respect to previous devices. Main

memory is based upon a single 16-bit external SDR or DDR SDRAM.

The display architecture of the devices is based upon a high performance blitter engine that

supports CLUT8 and RGB16STi5167 formats for background, video and OSD/graphics

displays. It makes the porting of middleware easier with improved rendering.

Features

■ Enhanced ST20 32-bit VL-RISC CPU

■ Unified memory interface

  – up to 133 MHz, 16-bit wide SDR SDRAM,

  – up to 166 MHz, 16-bit wide DDR SDRAM

■ Programmable Flash memory interface

■ Demodulator compatible with I and Q or IF inputs for tuner interface

■ Channel management

■ Digital carrier, timing & symbol recovery loops

■ Decoding

  – QPSK - 16 QAM - 64 QAM constellations

■ MPEG-2 MP@ML video decoder

■ Graphics and display

  – 3 display planes

  – 2D paced blitter engine with fill function

■ Programmable transport interface (PTI)

  – single transport stream input for DVB

■ Central DMA controller

■ Advanced security ready

  – compatible with latest CA requirement

■ PAL/NTSC/SECAM encoder

  – RGB, CVBS, Y/C and YUV outputs with four 10-bit DAC outputs.

■ Audio subsystem

  – simultaneous MPEG audio decode and output of Dolby streams on S/PDIF

  – IEC958/IEC1937 digital audio output interface

  – integrated stereo audio DAC

■ On-chip peripherals

  – ASC (UART) with Tx and Rx FIFOs

  – 3 banks of 8-bit programmable I/O

  – integrated VCXO

■ JTAG/TAP interface

■ Package

  – 15 mm x 15mm PBGA 240 0.8 mm pitch

Application

● either SDR and DDR SDRAM memory interface available

● serial or parallel Flash interfaces for program storage (HW selection for serial or parallel Flash boot)

● FMI interface with NAND Flash support

● serial TS input port

● two UARTs

● two smart card interfaces

● HW security support option

● digital video output port (exclusive with other features)