ES8380

The ES8380 Phoenix™ processor is a single-chip DVD processor supporting DVD video, MPEG-4 ASP and DivX® Home Theater playback.

The ES8380 Phoenix DVD processor is ideal for stand-alone DVD players, DVD receivers, DVD/VCR combos and DVD A/V mini-component systems. It incorporates a high-quality deinterlacer and a TV encoder that supports HD (720p/1080i) and Macrovision™ protected progressive (480p/576p) and interlaced video output. The HD output is ideal for the display of JPEG pictures, and when used with the built-in video scaler, allows up-conversion of unprotected video to HD resolution.

The ES8380 Phoenix processor is built on the ESS proprietary dual CPU Programmable Multimedia Processor (PMP) core consisting of 32-bit RISC and 64-bit DSP processors that deliver the best DVD feature set. It integrates a servo controller, RF amplifier, read channel, ECC, servo DSP, and MCU. The Phoenix processor employs a unified memory architecture to ensure the lowest possible system memory cost. A USB full-speed host controller is built-in for connection to Flash memory cards.

The ES8380 Phoenix processor servo controller supports all popular optical pick-up units (OPU). Its high performance error handling allows for playback of scratched and fingerprinted media.

The ES8380 Phoenix processor has unmatched audio features including an integrated high quality 8-channel audio digital to analog converter (DAC) and a 2-channel analog to digital converter (ADC). Additionally, it supports the DVDAudio, CD-DA, HDCD, MP3, WMA, AAC, and Dolby ProLogic™ II digital audio formats and Karaoke.

The ES8380 Phoenix DVD processor is available in a 208- pin Plastic Quad Flat Pack (PQFP) device package.