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Altera in portable entertainment
The MAX® II device helps us stay
competitive in the extremely pricesensitive consumer electronics
market. We have been able to
implement digital signal processing
more economically than with
alternative solutions and reduce
costs at the manufacturing level.
Mike Chai
Senior Vice President of R&D
LeapFrog
Your customers demand light-weight mobility and more functionality
than ever before. Not only do you have to design all the latest features
into your products, but you have to do it in an ever-smaller board space,
use less power, and integrate into a wide array of other technologies to
stay ahead of the curve. Whether you’re designing for media players,
edutainment toys, handheld games, GPS navigators, or another portable
device, Altera delivers flexible programmable solutions that will get you
to market faster and reduce your total cost of development.
Altera in portable media players
A new generation of portable media players is here. Altera® solutions make it easy for you to deliver
all the functionality this new generation demands. Your customers will be able to listen to music,
watch videos, and view pictures, functionality that’s integrated into one product that they can carry in
the palm of their hand. Envision the future with wireless media sharing, image and video capture, and
gaming capabilities. Because Altera is at the forefront of portable media player design, we’ll be able to
help you deliver these kind of features and more, only faster.
Portable media player example
Mic, audio line in
Radio IC
Video in
DTV Tuner
External
memory card
interface
Audio
codec
To DVR
Optical
interface
MPEG TS
interface
Video
codec
Image
processing
controller
HDD
interface
HDD
DTV: digital television
HDD: hard disk drive
TO S LINK
Smart card
interface
Power
management
Altera
Optional Interfaces
DRAM flash
I2C
expansion
port
In a typical portable media
player system, the central
functional block is the image
processing controller. The
basic functions required for
the image processing controller
can be implemented either in
an ASIC, ASSP, or DSP device.
A companion Altera programmable logic device (PLD) can
also be incorporated into the
basic design for feature
enhancements. Because PLDs
are reprogrammable, this
companion device allows you
to differentiate products and
get them to market faster than
designers who use ASICs,
ASSPs, or DSP devices alone.
Portable edutainment toy example
Educating children while keeping them entertained is the
objective of portable edutainment toys. In a typical portable
edutainment toy system, the central functional block is the
signal conditioning controller. The signal conditioning
controller positions the motor, based on inputs from an
external sensor. It processes and loads images to the display
panel, handles audio processing functions, such as audio tone
synthesis, and manages external audio sources. These three
functions are unique to an edutainment toy system specification, and a PLD gives you maximum design flexibility, low
risk, and fastest time to market in your designs. Similar to the
portable media player application, PLDs are ideal for interface
bridging, I/O expansion, power management, voltage-level
shifting, DSP configuration, and clock generation functions.
Sensor
inputs
Keyboard
joystick
interface
Altera in edutainment toys
ADC
Signal
conditioning
controller
Motor
driver
Camera
interface
Altera
DRAM
flash
Audio
driver
Power
management
Optional Interfaces
ADC: analog-to-digital converter
MP3
interface
I 2C
expansion
port
Portable entertainment features and benefits
Functions
MAX IIZ
CPLDs
Power management
Cyclone®
Series FPGAs
Signal conditioning controller
4
LCD timing controller
Interface bridging
4
General purpose I/O (GPIO)
pin/I2C/system port expansion
4
Data format conversion
ASSP-function complement
4
Security
Benefits
Industry’s lowest dynamic and standby power consumption
Adapts to application for
optimal power management
4
Abundant memory and multipliers for video processing applications
Image processing, quality
enhancement
4
MAX IIZ CPLDs are lower cost than digital signal processors; Cyclone series
FPGAs have configurable soft processor for custom-fit solutions
Cost and board space
reduction
4
Built-in LVDS, reduced swing differential signaling (RSDS), mini-LVDS, pointto-point differential signaling (PPDS) display column driver interfaces
Cost and board space
reduction
4
Configurable I/O buffers with built-in interfaces for common I/O standards
and external memory interfaces
No extra components needed
for interface bridging
Adding more I/Os or system user I/F
Flexibility and expandability
at minimal cost, highest I/O
per mm2
4
High bandwidth memory for fast data format conversion
Fast performance, less timing
delay
4
Add features to complement ASSP: smart card, game stick I/F
Expandability, time to market
4
Video and image processing
Features
4
Store encryption key in user flash memory (UFM)
Personal content protection
Voltage level shifter
4
On-chip voltage regulator
No need for additional voltage
regulator
Clock generation
4
MAX IIZ UFM interface clock-sync and power-up sequencing; Cyclone series
phase-locked loops (PLLs) can generate multiple independent clocks from a
single low-cost clock source
Internal clock generation, no
need for additional clock
4
Visit us at www.altera.com/consumer for more information.
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