OVERVIEW
Cavium family of Celestial Set Top Box processors offer industry leading integration and best price-performance for Set Top Box, Digital TV and High Definition Multimedia player applications. The Celestial CNC1203X family includes products that support High Definition and Standard Definition H.264 and MPEG-2 video decoding with descramblers for DVB/DES/TDES, transport, picture quality processing and uses industry standard ARM CPU’s. The High degree of integration deployed in the CNC1203X Set Top Box processor family is intended to provide OEMs, ODM’s and MSO’s with aggressive system bill-of-materials (BOM) cost in order to enable mass market adoption in such devices as DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T MSO and Free-to-Air Set Top Boxes.
TARGET APPLICATIONS The Celestial CNC1203X Set Top Box processors are targeted for use in cost sensitive free-to-air and Digital TV applications; including Cable, satellite and terrestrial zapper set top boxes and thin client products.
PRODUCT LINE The Celestial CNC1203X product family consists of the CNC1203 and CNC1203J products, which are differentiated by the video profile. The SoCs are provided with a complete SDK and middleware based on Linux driver support and an extensive API for controlling key video parameters, building Graphical User Interfaces. Application-specific Celestial CNC1203X evaluation systems and reference designs are also available.
BENEFITS
Multi-standard video decoder supporting H.264 and MPEG-2
