SoCs for designing UHDp60-enabled “4K” STBs

STMicroelectronics has unveiled SoCs STiH314/318 and STiH414/418 for designing UHDp60-enabled “4K” set-top boxes. The new SoCs demonstrated at IBC 2014. ST is launching these chips after success of its widely-deployed STiH312/Cannes and STiH412/Monaco architectures. ST says availability of mature software and complete re-use of already deployed middleware while low-power operation enables re-use of existing HD form factors. "With these new devices, ST is broadening its family of complete integrated solutions for set-top-boxes," said Gian Luca Bertino, Executive Vice President, General Manager, Digital Convergence Group, STMicroelectronics. "As the share of UHD TV shipments are expected to grow from about 6% of TVs sold today to over 30% in the next 5 years, ST is in the pole position to enable its customers to be the winners with the industry’s most cost-effective and power-efficient solutions for next-generation TV services." Manufactured in 28nm process technology, ST’s new Cannes/Monaco-compatible set-top box SoC devices will be available with complete software support to major OEMs in Q4 2014. With high power efficiency and full backward software and pin-to-pin hardware compatibility with the existing Cannes/Monaco devices, the STiH314/318 and STiH414/418 facilitate seamless introduction of UHDp60-10b solutions, including an HEVC1-10-bit decoder for true Ultra-...