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TechOnline | The ARM Powered Digital Home: ARM and the Set-Top Box
The number of consumer electronics devices in the home is constantly increasing. This, along with the increasing cost of energy and the desire to reduce carbon footprint, is driving the requirement for reduction in power consumption for both wireless and tethered applications. ARM is already well
In-Stat/MDR - Digital TV Services and Equipment White Paper
White Paper Download Digital TV Services and Equipment: A Look Back at 2003 and a Quick Peek into the Future Date: February 2004 Number of Pages: 11 Price: Free Click Here to Download Free White Paper Digital Television is one of those terms that excites and confuses
TechOnline | 50 W Four-Output Internal Power Supply for Set Top Box
This reference document describes a built-and-tested GreenPoint solution for a 40 W (40 W nominal power, 50 W peak power) set-top box (STB) power supply, built around ON Semiconductor's NCP1308 current-mode controller. The paper presents the results of various secondary rectification and regulation
TechOnline | Design and Implementation of a Java Execution Environment for Digital TV Set-Top Boxes
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a Java execution environment (Java Virtual Machine and a selected subset of its associated core packages) targeted to embedded systems and, in particular, to set-top boxes for MPEG-2 digital TV reception.</p> Java bytecode offers a viable way of
TechOnline | Xilinx Generic Flash Memory Interface Solutions
This white paper shows how a generic flash memory interface can be combined with Xilinx IP interface cores to add flash memory to Xilinx Spartan device designs.
TechOnline | Xilinx at Work in Set-Top Boxes
This white paper gives an overview of different set-top box technologies and how Xilinx high volume programmable devices can be used to implement complex system level glue in a variety of set-top box
TechOnline | Understanding Digital Television: Seeing the Big Picture
Energized by consumer interest and government insistence, TV designers and manufacturers around the world are gearing up for a historic switch-over to digital TV transmission and the effective shutdown of analog TV. In order for consumers who do not have digital TV to receive digital broadcasts,
TechOnline | Programmable Solutions for Set-Top Boxes
The home audio-video landscape is quickly transitioning from analog to digital, now providing several hundred channels of 24-hour coverage, Internet access, and other services. The convergence of fun
TechOnline | Building a Digital-to-Analog Converter Box with Toshiba TC90407XBG-Based Solutions
We are in the midst of a major shift in television broadcasting: the transition from analog to digital that will culminate with the end of analog transmission in February 2009, at the behest of a congressional mandate. Over the last few years, many TV broadcast stations have started broadcasting
TechOnline | Encoder's Spare Channel Embeds Whole-House Stereo Audio in Satellite Set-Top-Box
Satellite set-top boxes (STBs) and television receivers contain a number of chips that require high-speed clocks. If the video decoder chip does not have an external clock driveand many new
