Fusion™ 878A
PCI Video Decoder
The Fusion 878A is a complete, low cost, single-chip solution for analog
broadcast signal capture on the PCI bus. The Fusion 878A takes advantage
of the PCI-based system's high bandwidth and inherent multimedia
capability. It is designed to be interoperable with any other PCI multimedia
device at the component or board level.
The Fusion 878A has all the video and audio capture features of the
Bt878, plus a whole lot more. Designed to address the demanding
requirements of the Personal Computing and digital video industry, Fusion
878A meets PC98/PC99 requirements as well as being fully PCI 2.2
compliant. Fusion 878A addresses the current analog PC TV requirements
since it is pin for pin compatible and software compatible with the current
Bt878. But, Fusion 878A can also be used in an array of MPEG digital
transport stream products as well. The world is turning digital, with new
standards in Television – ATSC and COFDM – and Television recording
technologies using MPEG compression. Fusion 878A can be used as the hub
into the PC connecting the multiple analog and digital video formats in the
PC via a single PCI connection.
Functional Block Diagram
Composite 1
Composite 2
40 MHz
Composite 3
ADC
Composite 4
Composite S-Video (Y)
40 MHz
S-Video (C)
ADC
2
I
S (dig. audio)
TV
FM
Mic
879A_001
Data Sheet
GPIO and Digital/Video Port
Pixel
Format
Conversion
GPIO
Video FIFO
DMA
Controller
Video
Decode
and Scaling
DMA
Controller
Ultralock™
and Clock
Generation
Audio FIFO
Audio
Stream
Format
Input
High BW
Gain
Audio
Control
ADC
Distinguishing Features
• NTSC/PAL/SECAM video decoding
• Supports capture resolutions up to 768 x 576 (full
PAL)
• On-chip PCI bus mastering and bridge
functionality
• Supports HDTV/audio/MPEG2 transport data
across PCI bus
• High-speed serial port support MPEG transport
stream up to rates of 40 Mbps
• High-speed parallel port supports MPEG transport
streams up to 20 Mbps
• Flexible 24-bit wide GPIO
• CCIR656 interface
• Interfaces to a Digital TV data stream from a VSB
or OFDM demodulator
• Multiple YCrCb and RGB pixel formats and YUV
planar formats supported on output
• Selectable pixel density: 8, 16, 24, and 32 bits per
pixel
• Performs complex clipping of video source and
VGA video overlay
• Permits different program control and color
space/scaling for even and odd fields
• Executes Windows 98 "Scatter and Gather"
• Integrates advanced chroma and luma comb
filters/scalers
• Image scaleable in X and Y direction
• Y/C, 6-tap luma/2-tap chroma polyphase filter
• Receives Digital audio via I2S serial port
• Includes VBI data capture (closed captioning,
teletext, and Intercast data decoding)
• 100% PCI Rev. 2.2 compliant
• PC 98/PC 99 compliant
2
I
C
• WHQL-certifiable
• Accepts Mono audio input
• Packaged in compact 128-pin plastic QFP
Target
Fusion 878A Specific Features
Initiator
• Full stereo decoding for both TV audio (BTSC) and
PCI
PCI I/F
FM radio
Bus
• Enhanced GPIO/I
Target
• ACPI support
Initiator
• Byte alignment
• Vital product data
• High speed serial port
• High speed parallel port
Applications
• PC television
• Digital television
• Digital VCR
• Desktop video phone
• Still frame capture
• VBI data service capture
2
S
100600B
December 3, 1999
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