SmartASIC Volume Shipping New 3D Video Processors for Digital Video Displays.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2002 SmartASIC Technology, Inc. today announced that it is shipping in volume a new family of highly integrated 3D video processors, the STV STV Single Transferable Vote STV Star Trek: Voyager STV Samanyolu TV (Turkey) STV Satellite Television STV Scottish Television STV Stranglethorn Vale (World of Warcraft computer game) 108 family, that converts interlaced TV video streams to high-resolution progressive-scan video up to wide-XGA resolution (1280x768) 60Hz, and is ideal for TV tuner boxes, Progressive Scan TV A TV set that can convert interlaced content to progressive scan (non-interlaced) to reduce flicker and provide a better picture. Broadcast TV, cable TV and most DVDs are encoded for interlaced video such as NTSC. , LCD TV, HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates , and many digital video displays. Integrating SmartASIC's patented picture-in-picture (PIP) architecture, the STV108 family supports the simultaneous display of computer graphics and TV video signals with PIP at a very competitive overall system cost. The STV108 family includes several members: -- STV108A: high-end 3D video processor with integrated 10-bit DAC for progressive scan TV, HDTV -- STV108D: high-end 3D video processor with 24-bit digital RGB output for LCD TV -- STV106A: mainstream video processor with integrated 10-bit DAC for TV tuner box applications The STV108 family is available now, and the volume price for 20K units of STV108A is $9.50. The STV108 family converts interlaced TV video streams to progressive-scan video employing proprietary motion based deinterlacing and parametric non-linear scaling. The STV108 family integrates a 10-bit output DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter to support analog RGB (Red Green Blue) The computer's native color space, which is the color system for capturing and displaying images. RGB was derived from our own perception of color because human eyes are sensitive to red, green and blue (see trichromaticity). and YPbPr output with exceptional color performance and output resolution up to wide-XGA (1280 x 768). In addition, it performs frame rate conversion to increase the output refresh rate up to 75 Hz progressive or 120 Hz interlaced Refers to a display system or image that uses interlacing and does not render contiguous lines one after the other. See interlace and interlaced GIF. to eliminate video flicker noise. The STV108 family also supports noise reduction, picture scan, non-linear 16:9 output display and many other key system features. "We are very pleased to see the performance of STV108 with AU 20.1-inch AV panel. With its proprietary video technology, I believe STV108 may deliver the best quality of our newly released AV panel for all kinds of video applications," said David Su Ph.D., Vice President and General Manager of Audio&Video Display Business Unit of AU Optronics. SmartASIC Technology, Inc., a public IC design company with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan (stock symbol: 6186), is a leading supplier of TFT LCD controller ICs and 3D video processors for video display products. SmartASIC's display processors are used in LCD monitors, LCD PCs, DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. , LCD TVs and TV boxes made and marketed by Advantech, Amtran, E-Machines, Hannstar, KDS KDS Korea Data Systems (monitor manufacturer) KDS Kristen Demokratisk Samling KDS Keyboard Display Station KDS Karate Dance Style KDS Kuwaiti Dental Society (www.kwtdent. USA, Mitac, NEC-Mitsubishi, Sampo, Sharp, Sotec, ViewSonic, Zinwell and many others. For more information, go to www.smartasic.com. Note to Editors: SmartASIC is a trademark of SmartASIC, Technology Inc. |
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