Samsung’s New Media Processor brings Multimedia Capabilities to Digital Photo Frames

Thursday, December 18, 2008, 7:53
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Samsung Electronics has announced the availability of a new series of media processors, which are specifically crafted for the digital photo frame (DPF) market. The S5L2010 is the latest series of processors which, besides being high-performance and cost-effective, claims to allow DPF developers to put forward new multimedia functionality to optimize the photo and video viewing experience.

The new S5L2010 media processors come built-in with robust hardware accelerators for computation- intensive tasks. The performance tests have shown that S5L2010 processors are capable of decoding 57 megapixel JPEG images within just one second, considerably faster than any other gung ho product on the marketplace today. Besides, DPFs that build in Samsung’s latest S5L2010 processors is also capable of fast decoding video and audio in a range of multimedia formats such as MPEG-1/2/4, Xvid, Motion JPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG as well as AAC.

Dr. Yiwan Wong, vice president of marketing for Samsung’s System LSI Division, was quoted as saying, “Digital photo frames are quickly becoming a must-buy gift for sharing memories with family and friends. We believe this new series of processors for the DPF market has raised the bar on consumer experience with regards to performance and available features.”

The new media processors also feature an ADC for touch screen control, SLC/ MLC NAND booting, integrated RTC, a LED PWM driver for the LCD backlight, an audio PWM 2 channel output, TV-Out, and DVB-T interface, which lessens bill-of-material costs. The S5L2010 media processor is included in a quad flat package.

Built utilizing 65 nanometer CMOS process technology and developed on an ARM9 core, Samsung’s latest S5L2010 media processors are highly incorporated, sporting an SoC chip with a display controller, which claims to back up either analog or digital LCDs up to XGA resolution. Additional features are: an advanced memory interface for set in memory and all key memory card formats such as SD/MMC/SM/MS/CF/xD, superior graphics capabilities, USB 2.0 OTG, infrared input and real-time operating system support.

Samsung’s S5L2010 media processor is being sampled presently. It is expected to be made available in mass production during the Q1 of 2009.