Founded in 1988, Trident Microsystems, Inc. designs, develops and markets digital television System-on-chip (SOC) solutions for the rapidly growing consumer electronic markets in digital flat CRT TV, LCD TV, PDP TV, Micro Display Projection TV, AV Notebook PC, and especially High Definition TV (HDTV) ...
   
 


SVP EX
The SVP EX family, Trident's fifth generation of integrated video processors, provides all of the major video decoding, processing, scaling, and display control for advanced digital televisions and multimedia notebook computers. The SVP EX family features the industry's first fully-integrated ten-bit mixed-signal video pipe including a high-performance ADC, 3D color decoder, high-performance de-interlacer, and high-quality scaler. This tremendous level of integration is made possible through sophisticated mixed-signal design technology. Optimized for 1080i HDTV component input and featuring Trident's proprietary Digital Cinema Reality Engine, DCRe™, the SVP EX video processor family sets a new standard for image quality, features, and total system development cost.

I/O and Package Options
The six members of the SVP EX family meet the I/O and cost needs of a wide variety of TV and notebook PC systems.

Product Package Analog Inputs DigitalVideo Inputs Display Interface Applications
SVPTMEX12 208-Pin QPF CVBS, RGB, YPrPb 8-bit Analog RGB Mainstream Digital CRT TV
SVPTMEX22 208-Pin QFP CVBS, RGB, YPrPb None 24-bit TTL Mainstream LCD TVs
SVPTMEX32 208-Pin QFP CVBS, RGB, YPrPb 8-bit LVDS Mainstream LCD TVs and Notebook PCs
SVPTMEX42 256-Pin QFP CVBS, RGB, YPrPb 24-bit Analog RGB Premium Digital CRT TV with 2nd A/V decoder and HDMI receiver
SVPTMEX52 256-Pin QFP CVBS, RGB, YPrPb 24-bit LVDS Premium LCD, PDP TVs with 2nd decoder and HDMI receiver
SVPTMEX62 320-ball BGA CVBS, RGB, YPrPb 24-bit 30-bit TTL Premium TVs with Ten-Bit display interfaces

DCRe™: The Digital Cinema Reality Engine
The SVP EX™ family features Trident's Digital Cinema Reality Engine or DCRe™. DCReTM video processing features deliver optimal video fidelity to offer consumers compelling, cinema-like video images. DCRe includes:

  • Triple ten-bit ADC to dramatically reduce visible video signal conversion artifacts.
  • Ten-bit 3D color decoder to eliminate annoying "false color" artifacts and improve overall contrast.
  • Ten-bit dual-channel 1080i motion-adaptive de-interlacers to provide cinema-like motion video quality from any type of video source material.
  • Ten-bit dual-channel scaler to insure crisp images regardless of the display resolution.
  • Ten-bit dual-channel color processor with blue-stretch, green-stretch, skin-color correction, and white-balance control to offer vivid, bright colors previously available only in the most sophisticated internally-developed designs of consumer electronics OEMs.
  • Ten-bit display interface to support today's most advanced flat displays.
  • Advanced content-adaptive 3D noise reduction to dramatically reduce the popping and crackling that is especially prevalent on today's LCD TVs.
  • Enhanced horizontal and vertical sharpness controls that set a new level in sharpness for advanced TVs.
  • Programmable LCD overdrive to eliminate the blurring of fast-moving objects that is common to many LCD displays.
  • Integrated VBI slicer and V-chip/closed-caption/teletext accelerator to support world-wide TV data and messaging needs.
  • Full-screen 16-bit bit-mapped OSD powered by a 2D-graphics accelerator to enable beautiful, intuitive, windows-based user interfaces that enhance the functionality of advanced TVs.

System Cost Minimization
In addition to providing unparalleled image quality the SVP EX dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of advanced TV system design and manufacturing. The integrated Ten-bit ADC eliminates the need for the costly high-performance discrete ADCs used in previous generations of high-end TVs. With all functions integrated on a single chip a TV's main board complexity is simplified to lower cost, enhance high-frequency signal integrity, and improve manufacturability. Only a single unified frame buffer is required to achieve all system and 3D video processing functions, significantly reducing a TV's total bill of materials. Advanced TV OEMs invest substantial engineering development funds in software. The SVP EX family allows a single software code base to be used for LCD, CRT, plasma, and rear-projection TVs so that fewer software development resources are required to support a full lineup of advanced TV models.