DESCRIPTION

The STA310 is a fully integrated Audio Decoder capable of decoding all the above listed formats.

FEATURES

■ DVD Audio decoder:

❚ Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP), with up to 6 channels,

❚ Uncompressed LPCM with 1-8 channels,

❚ Precision of up to 24 bits and sample rates of between 44.1 kHz and 192 kHz.

■ Dolby Digital (*) decoder:

❚ Decodes 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround.

❚ Output up to 6 channels. downmix modes: 1, 2, 3 or 4 channels.

■ MPEG -1 2- channel audio decoder, layers I and II.

■ MPEG-2 6-channel audio decoder, layer II.

❚ 24 bits decoding precision.

■ MP3 (MPEG layer III) decoder.

■ Accepts MPEG-2 PES stream format for: MPEG-2, MPEG-1, Dolby Digital and linear PCM.

■ Karaoke System.

■ Prologic decoder.

■ Downmix for Dolby Prologic compatible.

❚ A separate (2-ch) PCM output available for simultaneous playing and recording.

■ Bitstream input interface: serial, parallel or SPDIF.

■ SPDIF and IEC-61937 input interface.

■ SPDIF and IEC-61937 output interface.

■ PLL for internal PCM clock generation. frequencies supported: 44.1KHz family (22.05, 88.2, 176.4) and 48KHz family (24, 48, 96, 192).

■ PCM: transparent, downsampling 192 to 96 Khz and 96 to 48kHz.

■ PTS handling control on-chip.

■ No external DRAM required

■ I2C or parallel control bus

■ Embedded Development RAM for customizable software capability.

■ Configurable internal PLLs for system and audio clocks, from an externally provided clock.

■ 80-PIN TQFP package

■ 2.5V (for core) and 3V (for I/O) power supply.

❚ 3V Capable I/O Pads .

■ True-SPDIF input receiver supporting AES/ EBU, IEC958, S/PDIF.

❚ No external chip required.

❚ Differential or single ended inputs can be decoded.

APPLICATIONS

■ High-end audio equipment.

■ DVD consumer players.

■ Set top box.

■ HDTV .

■ Multimedia PC.