Sigmatel Announces Availability Of Production-Ready Reference Platfoms Optimised For Video Capability Of STMP3600

Published 26th May 2006

Hong Kong – 26 May 2006
SigmaTel Inc, a leader in mixed-signal multimedia solutions, announces availability of production-ready optimised multimedia players based on the company's STMP3600 system on a chip (SoC). These players provide SigmaTel’s customers cost-effective, superior video capabilities for next generation multimedia players, enabling 30 frames per second QCIF or 24 frames per second QVGA video playback.

The first generation software operating on these players supports MPEG4 Simple/Advanced Simple and WMV9/VC-1 Simple/Main Profiles. Future versions of this software will add H.264, AVS or RMVB functionality and other video standards as the market dictates. All STMP3600-based players benefit from SigmaTel’s integration via innovation offering a SoC with superior functional integration and long battery life.

SigmaTel production ready players allow customers to offer digital multimedia players with up to 3.5 hours of battery life on a 1.5-inch display for the upcoming 2006 Back to School and Holiday seasons. The STMP3600 is SigmaTel’s fourth-generation of SoCs for the portable audio/personal entertainment market.

"Currently, SigmaTel Optimised Video technology is designed into several production-ready players demonstrating its superior video quality and long battery life," said Phil Pompa, senior vice president, Portable System on Chip Group at SigmaTel. "SigmaTel’s designs provide a complete solution allowing manufacturers to deliver a multimedia player with video capabilities quickly to the market."


An example of a production ready design with video capabilities is the Shinefar S100, a reference design created by SigmaTel to showcase the video capabilities of the STMP3600. This player offers manufacturers and brand customers the following features and benefits:

• 30 FPS QCIF and 24 FPS QVGA
• 3.5 hours of battery life on 1.5-inch display
• 1.5 hours of battery life on 2-inch display
• Removable media for low initial price points with added available memory from SD or MMC cards to satisfy customers’ needs for higher capacity
• Estimated BOM without flash: under US$32 USD
• Weight: under 52 grams
• Graphical User Interface
• Various flash configuration up to 8 GB flash


Shinefar S100 – STMP 3600 multimedia player specifications:

• STMP3650/60 + STFM1000 SigmaTel’s FM Tuner Solution
• 2-inch 176x220 65k-color TFT
• 8MB SDRAM
• 2GB NAND flash easily upgradeable for additional flash capacity
• Media playback : MP3/WMA/OGG, JPEG, MPEG4 – 30fps, WMV – 30fps
• Voice Recording
• Microsoft PlaysForSure 2.0 Audio (optional)
• Mic-in/Line-in/Headphone
• 400mAh battery : audio playtime: 28 hr, video playtime: 1.5 hr
• User interface: Graphical UI
• Product size: 76.6 x 49 x 14.6 mm
• Built-in microphone
• Built-in 0.5W mono speaker (optional)
• Ports :built-in standard mini-USB port, stereo headphone jack


Availability:
The S100 and other new production-ready players will sample starting at Computex 2006. Throughout Computex, invitation-only demonstrations of SigmaTel’s video SDK (version 4.3) will be shown on the 13th floor of the Grand Hyatt Taipei. Invitations to the demonstrations can be arranged through a SigmaTel customer sales contact. The video SDK 4.3 provides easy to modify software and a wide range of features. This SDK will be available for delivery after Computex.





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