Must Provide a Solution on a Chip – from concept to delivery Dr. Rakefet Kol Chief Architect Zoran Microelectronics Ltd. Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 1 From Concept to Delivery… Driving The Digital Lifestyle ‘Zoran’ is the Hebrew word for ‘Silicon’ ‘Zoran’ in Chinese means ‘Excellence’ Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 2 1 Connect, Share, Entertain™ – Anywhere & Anytime 2nd TV Mobile Phone Broadcast, Color Inkjet Digital Audio Cable & MFP Player Satellite Main TV WiFi Access PC / Mac & Gateway WiFi Digital Camera Mobile Picture Viewer Digital Media Hub DVD-R, STB, PVR, AV/VCR rd Photo Printer 3 TV Connected Stereo / AVR Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 3 Digital Entertainment Markets Low High Definition Portable Power Reduce Cost Imaging More Features Audio Time to Video Processing Processing Market Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 4 2 Zoran Provides a Complete Solution ► Need a “Solution-on-a-Chip” ► Rich in features (but low cost) ► Full software stack ► Low level drivers VLSI ► Many applications ► Ready reference design Design System ► Adapt to rapidly changing market demands ► Reuse & Innovate ► Reuse HW modules ► Integrate, integrate, integrate Software ► Reuse SW modules ► Multiple various processors ► Legacy expertise ► Innovative solutions to new requirements Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 5 DVD Player And10 years now… ago… Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 6 3 DVD Player 1 year ago… Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 7 DVD Player Platform Integration VaddisVaddisVaddis 86xVaddis® 966 67 Vaddis® 5 4 Future Optical Data DVD Audio S/P DIF Out RF AMP Pickup RF AMP Recovery Demux All Audio DAC’s 6 channels Unit (OPU) Format Out Audio Audio out DSP Class D MPEG-2 + Modulator Host MPEG-4/MPEG-2 Audio OPU CPU DecoderDiVX Servo Servo Inputs Servo Decoder Drivers Control LCD Actuator Controller Memory VideoVideo Processor HDXtreme™ Controller w/ ProgressiveProcessor Scan HDTV Out Flash SDRAM DVD Player Platform VaddisVaddis 862:862: FirstFirst fullyfully digitaldigital DVDDVD SystemSystem SolutionSolution Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 8 4 Integrated LCD Controller Requirements ► Various Interfaces ► Analog (alternated) RGBRGB ► Digital ► Serial (RGB,GBR) ► Parallel 8/18/24 bits ► Various sizes and resolutions ► Different control signals timing and constraints ► Various pixels arrangements RGB Stripe RGB Delta R G B R G B R G B R G B R G B R G B G B R G B R R G B R G B R G B R G B R G B R G B G B R G B R ► Image and video processing ► Support PAL and NTSC ► Enable display modes of 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios ► Adjust image parameters (brightness, contrast, color, tint) ► YUVÆRGB conversion (different for MPEG and JPEG) Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 9 Portable DVD: Previous Solution SDRAM FLASH LCD Panel RGB (Analog I/F) CVBS/YC Chroma Vcom IC COMDC Vaddis 862 HS, VS Backlight DVD SoC TCON 8-13 DC/DC Inverter Traverse Timing Mecha Controller IC Video Out (CVBS, YC, YPbPr) Audio Audio Motor Keypad, DACs Amp Drivers Remote I/F 2 channels out Headphone Out S/PDIF Out Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 10 5 Portable DVD based on Vaddis966L SDRAM FLASH LCD Panel RGB RGB (Analog(Digital I/F)I/F) R[0:7] G[0:7] B[0:7] VCOM VCOM Vaddis 966L/LD Backlight TCON lines DC/DC InverterLED Traverse Mecha Video Out (CVBS) Audio 2 ch out (analog or Class D) Motor Keypad, Amp Drivers Remote I/F S/PDIF Out Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 11 Integrated LCD Timing Controller ► Programmable ► Can generate various timing and control signals Set12bits Set STV to 1 01000001000011010x410D Set6msb Set OEV for t1 cycles 00000010121 0x0295 Set6msb Set CKV for t2 cycles 00000011112 0x038C Set12bits Reset OEH & OEV, Set VCOM to 0 01000000100000100x4082 RepeatSame Repeat the same for t3 more cycles 1 0 17 0xA007 Set6msb Set OEH for t4 cycles 0000001109 0x0309 Set6msb Reset CKV for t5 Cycles 00000010035 0x0223 Set12bits Set STH for 1 (t6) cycle 01000011000100100x4312 Set12bits Reset STH 01000001000000100x4102 RepeatSame Repeat the same for t7 more cycles 1 0 1493 0xA1ED ChangeSample ChangeSample Change Sample 12x LCD_Clock 6x LCD_Clock DDE_Output !6x LCD_Clock LCD_Clock !LCD_Clock Red_LE Green_LE Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 12 6 More Gadgets based on Vaddis966L… ► Car DVD ► Picture Frame Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 13 From Portable DVD to High-Definition ► High definition Blu-ray BD-DVD player ► x6 resolution of standard definition ► New compression standards ► Must keep legacy red-laser capabilities ► High quality video and audio ► Time to market ► Challenges ► Designing an Advanced Multi-Standard High Definition Video Decoder ► Memory bandwidth allocation ► SW development for Massively Parallel System on a Chip ► Performance “hungry” applications ► Inter-processor communication and synchronization ► Control many integrated modules ► Write software for several processors of various types Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 14 7 VaddisHD™ 100 Solution System on a Chip HDD USB2.0HS OTG SATA HDMI1.3 out CVBS S-Video Ethernet 10/100 Component Phy 7.1-ch audio out BD/DVD drive (SATA/ATAPI) Or Direct I/F to BL FE chip (Blazer) S/PDIF out Nand/ DDR2 Nor Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 15 VaddisHD™ HW Architecture MPSoC, remember?! ATAPI Drive ATAPI Driver / Secure CPU Application CPU Display Output P SATA Drive x2 SATA MIPS, 32 bit, MIPS, 32 bit, H (2) ICache, DCache ICache, DCache Graphics Y Secure execution MMU External FE chip Interface to BL FE Enhancements Blend De-interlacer Scaler Video Digital Video Out Flash Cards Memory Card NTSC/ Analog Video Out Reader/Writer PAL AVZ Encoder USB Port x2 USB 2.0HS Multi Standards (OTG) HDMI 1.3 HDMI1.3 Decoder Tx DVD DRM Engine CSS, CPR/PM, VCPS, MPEG-2, SmartCard H.264, VC-1, SmartCard AACS, BD+ MPEG-4 Guestbus I2C ZDSP (Audio DSP) Analog audio UARTs DVD PS/TS Demux Memory Interface 2 MPEG1 L I,II,III, I S (10 ch.) SPI AC3, Class D MIF Arbitration AAC,AAC+,WMA, Remote Control WMA Pro, Dolby Infra Red Receiver Digital+, DTS,DTS+, IEC958 (S/PDIF) Ethernet PLLs, DTO Nano 0 Nano 1 Ethernet MAC+Phy Power Management DDR2 DDR2 xtal (x16) (x16) Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 16 8 The Memory Challenge ► Demanding memory requirements ► Available bandwidth ► Utilization, frequency ► Footprint ► Size (width, depth, number of DRAM chips) ► Cost affecting system BOM ► Cost of memory chips ► Cost of package ► #of pins to support DRAMs ► Power ► Bandwidth allocation schemes ► Adaptive priorities ► Support various type of clients ► High bandwidth clients ► use on-chip buffers to compensate latency ► Cost/Performance ► Low latency clients ► Processing is stalled till memory transfer is completed Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 17 AVZ – Multi-standards Video Decoder ► AVZ is an advanced multi-standard high definition video decoder core ► Supported video compression standards: ► MPEG-4 part 10 (AVC/H.264) ► VC-1 ► MPEG-4 part 2 / DivX / Xvid ► MPEG-1/2 ► AVZ challenges: ► Support 4 different standards ► Different stream compression techniques ► VLC – different tables for different standards ► CABAC (Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic decoding) ► Different header syntax ► Different MV calculations ► Different transforms ► High definition resolution requires high throughput ► parallel processing ► extra HW acceleration ► Several proprietary processors ► AVP ► SIMD Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 18 9 VaddisHD™ Software Architecture Application EmWi Linux Services: Modules Loadable DirectFB Linux R-CORE Wrapper BD Middleware Uart Ethernet … Hardware specific i/f Wrapper APP Kernel Space Services RT R-CORE Wrapper Hardware specific i/f Wrapper HW accelerators Wrapper R-CORE Hardware Specific BD Implementation ThreadX CFE LL API + FS Dual CPU architecture ThreadX OS for Real-time CPU Linux Kernel for Application CPU Inter-Processor Communication Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 19 VaddisHD™ 100 Demo Board for BD-DVD Audio HDMI Component DDR2 (1) Serial NOR iNand DDR2 (0) Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 20 10 MultiMedia HD player/TVMM ► HD-TVMM ► Integrated into HDTV, enabling playback from USB- key or HDD or Ethernet ► HD-Player ► Portable box ► Playback of various content via HDMI1.3 1080p ► IP-VOD ► Ethernet connectivity ► DRM Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 21 Rakefet ‘Rakefet’ is the Hebrew name for ... Zoran Proprietary. Copyright © 2008 Zoran Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 22 11.