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Converting high-definition mobile video signals into high-quality analog signals for direct playback on TV sets, NXP Semiconductors (News - Alert) has launched the NXP SAA8510 – a mobile multimedia TV-out processor to enable TV-output. Enabling the display on any NTSC and PAL TV set, the NXP SAA8510 converts mobile digital video signals into high-quality analog TV signals.

 

Key features of the SAA8510 include advanced power management; MIPI DBI-2 host interface; support for MacroVision copy protection and VBI data insertion (bond-out option); worldwide support for PAL and NTSC; support for all common mobile resolutions, including VGA @ 30 fps; smallest package on the market: TFBGA48 (4 x 4 mm, 0.4 pitch); excellent output quality based on a rich filter set and polyphase scalers; fully integrated solution requires no external oscillator or CVBS drivers; and 4-Mbit embedded frame buffer.

 

The SAA8510 is offered in the smallest package available on the market, with a unique design. The SAA8510 can be addressed as a simple RAM-based display controller without having to put on the real-time constraints on the host device for easy integration by mobile device OEMs as it requires no specific clock or voltage supplies. To generate all required internal voltage levels, cable plug/unplug detection and five different power modes, including low-leakage sleep mode, the SAA8510 supports advanced power management functionality with embedded voltage regulators.

 

NXP’s TV-out processor enables mobile images to be displayed on larger TV screens, although mobile picture quality is still generally low resolution. This high-quality output is enabled by a polyphase up/down scaler that allows different scale factors horizontally and vertically. With the help of a dedicated tearing effect signal, chrominance and luminance filters limit dot crawl effects and tearing effects are managed.

 

“As the cell phone continues to become known as the world’s ‘third screen’ behind the TV and PC, consumers will need the added flexibility to access their mobile content beyond the two inch screens of most mobile devices,” said Vincent Pronk, Multimedia Marketing Manager, Business Unit Mobile & Personal, NXP Semiconductors. “We developed the SAA8510 TV-out processor in close collaboration with our key customers to help fuel the convergence of mobile and home multimedia, and to give end-users the freedom to take their mobile content from the small screen to the big screen whenever they want.”