ASTRI

Overview
The ASTRI Multi-Media Emulation Platform (MMP-EMU) is a high performance and flexible SoC (System-On-Chip) development platform targeting for the fast growing multimedia applications such as Digital TV, Set Top Box, IPTV, etc.

It contains an ARM926EJ-S based daughter card, two Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs and a rich set of peripherals for different multimedia application scenarios in order to provide design flexibility. It enables a fast prototyping for multimedia system development and/or IP creation, verification and integration.

Features

Hardware

Processor

•	ARM926EJ-S CoreTile (197MHz or 200MHz)
•	16K I-cache

•	16K D-cache

Memory

•	SRAM: 4MB
•	SDRAM: up to 512MB
•	DDR SDRAM: up to 256MB

•	Nor Flash: up to 256MB
•	NAND Flash: up to 4Gbit
•	Serial Flash: 32Mbit

I/O Peripherals

•	Fast 10/100 Ethernet
•	USB 2.0 OTG
•	I2C
•	I2S
•	SD/MMC Interface
•	SPI
•	UART X 2

•	Video Encoder/Decoder
•	AC97 Controller
•	GPIOs
•	Smart Card Interface
•	CMOS Sensor Interface
•	IDE Hard Disk Interface
•	TS Interface

User Interface

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Keypad

•	3.5" LCD Panel

Video I/O

•	RGB
•	YUV

•	HDMI V1.3
•	NTSC/PAL I/O

Audio I/O

•	Speaker Out
•	Stereo Line I/O

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Mic In

FPGA

•	Two Xilinx Virtex-4 (XC4VLX200-10)

Software

•	Embedded OS: Linux V2.6
•	Hardware Device Drivers
•	Power-on Self Test
•	OS Boot Loader

•	Sample Code for Video and Audio Decoding and Playing
•	Audio decoder

FPGA IP Library

H.264 Decoder Building Blocks (** To Be Available In 1Q 2008)

•	H.264 Main Profile/High Profile**
•	CAVLC

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CABAC

Peripherals

•	I2S
•	ATA Controller

•	Display Controller Unit