Home Entertainment

Increased processing power and performance, shorter design cycles, and new power management techniques have never been more critical for today’s digital entertainment solutions—with a focus on efficient, cost-sensitive design. Over the last five years, the video processing market has exploded as a key segment in home entertainment and today serves as one of the most essential baseline technologies fueling the highly evolving HDTV and digital entertainment markets.

Sonics offers a family of full-service, efficient and reliable on-chip connectivity solutions that allows SoC designers to maintain design flexibility, yet harness the full potential of their digital entertainment designs—such as those used in next-generation DVD players, HDTVs, DVRs, gaming and STBs. Sonics helps semiconductor companies bring this all together in a cost-effective, performance-based SoC.

And Sonics is leading the high-definition revolution with a wide range of patented on-chip connectivity solutions, including SonicsMX and SonicsLX. SonicsMX is a silicon-proven, high-performance IP solution that is powering many of today’s market-leading DTVs. SonicsLX delivers high value for applications requiring high-definition streaming, and is architecturally compatible with SonicsMX so that upgrading SoC performance is seamless.

When coupled with a Sonics’ memory subsystem solution that uses Sonics MemMax Memory Scheduler as a foundation, achieving the high-bandwidth from external DRAM has never been easier or more cost-effective.

Read Sonics DTV Application Brief