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Product Brief

Zoran Corporation

1390 Kifer Road

Sunnyvale, CA 94086-5305

ZR35220/ZR35230+ZR35250

DVD

Digital Camera

Digital TV

Imaging

IP Core

Driving the Digital Lifestyle

Driving the Digital Lifestyle

General

• System-on-a-Chip solution for DVD recorder/player

• Digital Front End (DSP, Servo, Write Strategy)

• Back End (MPEG Encoder, DVD Decoder, DVB Demultiplexer and

Decoder)

• Unified Memory Architecture

• Powerful 162 MHz 32-bit RISC CPU enables next generation

applications

• Intuitive DVDR application and user interface

• Enables time-shift and "Watch and Record" applications

Recording

• Real time, 100% compliant DVD-Video, DVD-VR, and DVD+VR

authoring

• Rich DVD-Video menus with Thumbnails

• Supports DVD-R/-RW/-RAM/+R/+RW, CD-R/-RW formats

• Certified Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder

• VCPS, CPRM content protection

• 1.4-10 Mbps VBR/CBR (2-/4-/6-/8-hr record modes) bitrates

• DV25 Decode, Real-time Transcode to MPEG

• 256Mb to 512Mb SDRAM configurations

Digital Video Decoder

• DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, CVD, SVCD, VCD, CDDA Decoding

• DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x/6.x(Ultra), XviD full-D1 (with QPEL and GMC)

• MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile Level 5 (720x480 @ 30fps)

• Glueless HDMI i/f to ZR36721 (HDXtreme)

• JPEGXtreme enables image display at true HD resolution

w/ZR36721

Analog Video

• NTSC/PAL/SECAM/480P/576P analog video encoder with five

12-bit/108Mhz video DACs

• Horizontal Resolutions: 720, 704, 544, 480, 360, 352

• 3-field de-interlacing , de-blocking and de-ringing filters

• Simultaneous interlaced/progressive video output with independent

OSD control

• Embedded NTSC/PAL Video Decoder with Time Base Correction

(TBC) and 3D Y/C Separation

• Input video noise filtering (horizontal, vertical, temporal)

• Closed Captioning/Teletext/EPG VBI Bitslicing/Decoding and

Insertion

• Input analog video: RGB, CVBS, or Y/C

• Picture-in-Picture for external source preview

Features

Zoran's Activa 220 is a DVD Recorder System-on-a-Chip Multimedia

Processor that integrates a high performance, all-digital read/write

front end (write strategy, DSP, and servo controller) and high quality

back end (DVD playback, DVB demultiplexing and decode, and

MPEG encode). Activa 220 has direct interfaces to multiple Optical

Pickup Units (OPUs) via the Activa 250 RF amplifier chip.

The Activa 220+250 chipset is designed to deliver a broad portfolio of

cost-effective products, from entry level Optical Disc Drive (ODD)-

only systems to combo systems (e.g., ODD+Hard Disc Drive (HDD),

ODD+VCR, and ODD+TV). All Zoran Activa 220/250-based recording

solutions are 100% application and middleware software compatible

with previous generation products, providing a turnkey solution that

reduces product development cycles.

Zoran's Activa 220+250 based DVD recorders provide:

• Support for DVD recording formats (DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW)

• Intuitive, easy to use On Screen Display (OSD) for multiple devices

(ODD, HDD, flash card, etc.)

• Convergence solutions for DVDR+DTT and Networking

• Customizable HW/SW platform for next generation application

development

• 100% compliance to DVD-video, -VR, and +VR verifiers

• Native RGB input recording

The Activa 220+250 chipset is specifically designed to support

standalone DVD recorders with support for value-added applications

including:

• Multiple file format support, including MPEG-4 and DivX

• HDD/PVR functionality

• HDMI Digital Output w/HDCP, HD-JPEG

• USB Connectivity to digital cameras, printers and storage devices

• Flash Card Connectivity

• EPG services including Gemstar and tvtv

• YesDVD authoring

The Activa 220+250 solution is tuned for multiple Optical Pickup

Units (OPUs) and media types allowing OEMs to develop

differentiating features in the application software.

The Activa 220+250 chipset is the ideal IC solution for DVD

Recorders, Digital Entertainment Media Centers and combo DVDR

systems (DVDR+HDD, DVDR+DTT, DVDR+VCR, DVDR+TV, DVDR

A/V Receiver).

The Activa 230 adds to the Activa 220 features dual Digital Video

Broadcast Terrestrial and Satellite (DVB-T/S) support for a high

performance European solution.

The Activa 220 and 230 are footprint and software compatible.

Activa 220 / 230 + Activa 250 Benefits Overview

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DVD Recorder

System-on-a-Chip + RF Amplifier