Toshiba to Showcase Enabling Technologies at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley With New Products, Demos and Displays Spanning Many Vertic5 April 2006
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)* today announced it will exhibit its latest developments in enabling technologies, including digital entertainment, automotive, wireless, home, industrial applications and custom SoCs at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2006 here this week. In related announcements, the company disclosed its reference platform strategy for digital TV applications and rolled out several new products, including the first two members of a product family for low-end and mid-range TVs, an analog video front-end processor, a highly integrated real-time display controller SoC for automotive dashboard displays, and new microcontrollers. Visit TAEC at booth #1510.
"These enabling technologies for a wide range of applications are proof points of Toshiba's vision, innovation and commitment to its customers," said Shardul Kazi, vice president of the ASSP Business Unit. "They validate that we have the product breadth, resources and system-level understanding to bolster our customers' design and development activities and help them succeed."
Digital Multimedia Enabling Technologies
Toshiba will feature an LCD TV reference design system that is a complete solution for analog and digital LCD TV. Based on the company's new TC90400XBG SoC, it supports worldwide TV standards, supports up to 1280 x 768 WXGA resolution displays and provides high-definition decoding. Toshiba will also show its AVM4939 IP set-top box reference design for networked video appliances. The AVM4939 incorporates TX4939, a 400MHz TX49 MIPS-based(TM) RISC 64-bit CPU with 520-Dhrystone performance, an integrated dual Ethernet MAC and ATA HDD controller, a floating point unit, hardware security engine, video port with up to three video streams, a PCI bus for media codecs and expansion, MPEG-2/4WMV9 decoder and USB 2.0 controller. In addition, Toshiba will display the newest member of its family of analog video front-end processors, the TB1311AFG programmable A/V and component switch. It accepts all standard analog audio and video signals required for digital television, set-top boxes and other A/V products. Lastly, Toshiba will demonstrate the highly integrated TX4961 real-time display controller SoC for automotive and other real-time display applications. It combines a 64-bit RISC CPU and a graphics display controller with a 2D hardware graphics accelerator and video frame grabber.
Imaging and Communications Enabling Technologies
Toshiba's imaging and communications products are aimed at high-volume, mainly consumer applications. High-volume consumer products such as cell phone and home/office products are driving technology developments. The end products are multi-vendor-based systems that require an understanding of the semiconductor "ecosystem." As well, the targeted segments are highly fragmented. To meet customer requirements, Toshiba has developed product families that meet slightly differing needs and provides all the support tools necessary for customer evaluation, including evaluation boards, development boards and reference designs. Featured highlights in TAEC's booth include the following:
- 1200dpi CCD linear image sensors offered as a contact image sensor
module and shown in a multifunction printer
- A 3500-pixel CCD linear image sensor embedded in a handheld,
point-of-sale bar-code scanner
- A demonstration of a 3.2 megapixel area image sensor with auto-focus
capability
- A development system for a 32-bit CISC microcontroller with peripherals
- A development system for a 32-bit RISC microcontroller with
innovative, embedded NANO FLASH(TM) memory
- A demonstration system for motor control devices
- Bluetooth technology embedded in a popular cell phone docking product
- White LED driver evaluation boards for cell phone or PDA backlight
applications
- Shock sensor amplifier boards for hard-disk drive protection
- Remote keyless entry and tire pressure monitoring systems with the
options of single-chip receiver or transceiver devices for automotive
applications
*About TAEC
Combining quality and flexibility with design engineering expertise, TAEC brings a breadth of advanced, next-generation technologies to its customers. This broad offering includes memory and flash memory-based storage solutions, a broad range of discrete devices, displays, medical tubes, ASICs, custom SOCs, microprocessors, microcontrollers and wireless components for the computing, wireless, networking, automotive and digital consumer markets.
TAEC is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp. (Toshiba), Japan's second largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world's ninth largest integrated manufacturer of electric and electronic equipment. In almost 130 years of operation, Toshiba has recorded numerous firsts and made many valuable contributions to technology and society. For additional company and product information, please visit TAEC's website at chips.toshiba.com. For technical inquiries, please e-mail Tech.Questions@taec.toshiba.com.
Information in this press release, including product pricing and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable Toshiba product specifications. In developing designs, please ensure that Toshiba products are used within specified operating ranges as set forth in the most recent Toshiba product specifications and the information set forth in Toshiba's "Handling Guide for Semiconductor Devices," or "Toshiba Semiconductor Reliability Handbook." This information is available at http://www.chips.toshiba.com, or from your TAEC representative.
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