4th Generation Digital Media Processing SoCs 
      

ESS Technology has released preliminary details of its 4th generation Digital Picture Frame and HDD Media Player solutions, believed to be the most highly integrated Digital Picture Frame SoC products currently available.

Built on ESS’s popular DMP3 (ES6430), DMP2 (ES6425) and DMP1 (ES6420) processor architecture, the DMPX ES6460 and ES6461 SoC devices feature a versatile card reader interface for direct connection to CF/MicroDrive, SD, MMC, MS/MS Pro, xD, SM, and IDE data storage devices. 

The two DMPX devices include HS USB 2.0 host/device interfaces for connection to PC, thumb drive, USB hard drives and cameras. The built-in A/V decoder supports MPEG 1/2/4, JPEG and MP3 formats with numerous other options including Dolby AC3 and WMA. DMPX devices integrate the TCON, RTC, DC/DC PWM and NAND Flash controllers, providing a boot-from-NAND-Flash feature that saves system cost by eliminating the SPI flash requirement.

The DMPX ES6461 can be coupled with ESS’s companion ES7108 Video Scaler/HDMI transmitter device to upscale any standard definition (480i/p) video to the full 1080p high definition output required by emerging HDD Media Player applications.

ESS supports its DMPX devices with two high performance development kits: The HDD Media Player or Digital Picture Frame reference design supports the DMPX ES6461 whilst the Digital Picture Frame reference design complements the DMPX ES6460. Both development kits include full data and schematics, user interface software source code and ROM emulator code.

Full product briefs and datasheets are available for these devices but these are only available under Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). If you would like more information please click on the link below.