NXP brings mobile content home to the television set with TV-output processor for mobile devices
(Technology News, 16 Jun 2008 )
NXP Semiconductors has aunched the NXP SAA8510 – a mobile multimedia TV-out processor to enable TV-output on any mobile device having a standard LCD interface. The NXP SAA8510 converts mobile digital video signals into high-quality analog TV signals, which can then be displayed on any NTSC and PAL TV set. Advanced scale and filter technology creates excellent output quality and a significantly improved display of low-resolution mobile content on larger TV screens. Easily integrated in mobile devices, such as handsets and portable media players (PMPs), the NXP SAA8510 makes it simple for consumers to share mobile videos, still images and even music with family and friends using a home TV screen.
Although mobile picture quality is still generally low resolution, NXP’s TV-out processor enables mobile images to be displayed on larger TV screens with exceptional vibrancy and clarity. This high-quality output is enabled by a polyphase up/down scaler that allows different scale factors horizontally and vertically. Chrominance and luminance filters limit dot crawl effects and tearing effects are managed using a dedicated tearing effect signal. Supported input formats are RGB888, RGB666, RGB565, YUV422 and YUV420 for resolutions from 40x40 pixels to VGA (including WQVGA).
Touting a unique design, the SAA8510 is offered in the smallest package available on the market. In addition, it requires no specific clock or voltage supplies and can be addressed as a simple RAM-based display controller with no real-time constraints on the host device for easy integration by mobile device OEMs. To minimize power drain, the SAA8510 supports advanced power management functionality with embedded voltage regulators to generate all required internal voltage levels, cable plug/unplug detection and five different power modes, including low-leakage sleep mode.
