Sigma Media Processors Power Celrun IPTV Set-Top Boxes

Sigma Designs, a provider of media processing system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for consumer electronics, announced that Sigma’s integrated SMP8654 media processors will be used to power Celrun’s TD-1100 set-top box (STB) which has been selected by telecom provider LG Dacom to be deployed across Korea.

Sigma’s chips will be integrated into Celrun’s TD-1100 set-top box to support real-time IPTV (News - Alert) streaming along with Video-on-Demand (VOD) services.

“Our selection by LG Dacom to be deployed across Korea was largely due to Sigma’s next-generation system-on-chip, SMP8654, as LG Dacom demanded set-top boxes that are robust and offer technology advanced enough to scale for all IPTV customers in Korea,” stated Young Min Kim, CEO, Celrun, in a release. “As a longtime partner with Sigma Designs (News - Alert), the company continues to meet our needs in terms of best performance and cost – we look forward to our continued work together.”

“We are committed to helping Celrun provide their customers with best-in-class set-top boxes for the Korean market, where IPTV demand continues to increase significantly,” commented Ken Lowe, vice president of strategic marketing at Sigma Designs. “With the increasing demand for IPTV services around the world, set-top box manufacturers continue to turn to Sigma’s industry leading price and performance offerings.”

Celrun’s TD-1100 set-top box, powered by Sigma’s SMP8654 media processors, supports multicasting, video-on-demand (VOD) functionality and digital rights management (DRM) requirements. It allows multi-task performance by processing multiple streams of content in tandem at speeds up to 20 Mbps and advanced encryption technology for enhanced copyright protection.

Sigma’s SMP8654 media processor integrates a complete complement of next-generation capabilities for a single-chip system-on-chip (SoC) solution with powerful multimedia processing, robust content security system, multiple on-chip CPUs and system peripherals. Its offers 50percent increase in overall performance.

The SMP8654 can reduce sub-system costs by almost 30 percent compared to its predecessor, the SMP8634.

Also, the SMP8654 offers a full complement of advanced decoder engines with high definition video decoding, including H.264 (MPEG-4 part 10), Windows Media Video 9, VC-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 (part 2) and the new AVS (News - Alert) standard. High-performance graphics acceleration, multi-standard audio decoding, advanced display processing capabilities and HDMI 1.3 output round out its multimedia core.

There is a dedicated secure processor, on-chip flash memory and a range of digital rights management (DRM) engines for high-speed payload decryption. The SMP8654 also features a dual Gigabit Ethernet controller, dual USB 2.0 controller, NAND flash controller, IR controller and SATA controller.