Introduction
The STM7710 is exactly the same as the STi7710. The STM7710 is a new generation of high-definition set-top box decoder chip, and provides very high performance for low-cost HD systems.
Based on the STBus architecture, this system on chip is a full back-end processing solution for digital terrestrial, satellite and cable high-definition set-top boxes compliant with ATSC, DVB, DIRECTV, DCII, OpenCable and ARIB BS4 specifications.
Features
The STM7710 is a single-chip, high-definition
MPEG decoder including:
◾ CPU core
◾ Transport filtering and descrambling
◾ Video decoder
◾ Graphics engine
◾ Dual display
◾ Audio decoder
The STM7710 also features the following
embedded interfaces:
◾ USB 2.0 for hard-disk drive support
◾ DVI/HDMI (Digital Visual Interface and
High-Definition Multimedia InterfaceTM)
◾ Digital audio and video auxiliary input
◾ Low-cost modem solution
Subsystems and interfaces
These are detailed in Section 1.1 on page 4:
◾ Processor subsystem
◾ Transport stream subsystem
◾ Video/graphics subsystem
◾ Audio subsystem
◾ External memory interface
◾ Local memory interface
◾ USB 2.0 host interface
◾ Hard-disk drive support
◾ On-chip peripherals
◾ Flexible multichannel DMA
Support
◾ JTAG/TAP interface
◾ DCU toolset support