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APPROACH 5C

Overview

Description

The APPROACH® 5C family provides innovative features such as digital mobile TV support, 3D-Graphics accelerator, VGA LCD support and full interface of PAL/NTSC composite TV out.

The APPROACH® 5C is a complete solution including software applications enabling handset manufacturers and design houses to differentiate high performance multimedia products with a variety of features and long battery life.

Benefits Overview

  • APPROACH 5C delivers leading class digital still and video for higher value handsets
  • High integration delivers low cost BOM and saves PCB space
  • Superior multimedia performance extends longevity of customer’s products
  • Pin compatible family provides multiple handset designs using one platform, saving design and production investments
  • Integrated applications and SDK tools enable fast time-to-market and reduce development efforts and risks
  • Low power process and SOC design maximize battery life
  • Package selected for lowest PCB and assembly cost
  • Fast integration using co-processor architecture (Baseband accelerator)
 

Software and Applications

Integrated firmware

  • Board Support Package: drivers for LCD, camera sensor, NAND, SD/MMC and common HW
  • Video: MPEG4, H264, VC1, H263, JPEG, GIF, PNG
  • Audio: AMR, MP3, AAC, AAC+, MIDI
  • Graphics: Open GL ES 1.1 API
  • Applications: video player, audio player, digital still camera, thumbnail viewer, video & photo editing

Optional applications

  • 3D surround rendering engine
  • Third party games
  • Mobile TV Applications
  • DRM
  • Webcam
  • PictBridge

Features

High End 5MP DSC

  • High quality ISP, supports 5MP CCD and CMOS sensors
  • DSC-like performance and user experience: Fastest click-to-click, burst mode, high frame rate
  • Signal Processing supports AWB, AE, AF, lens shading and bad pixel correction
  • Engines control for optical zoom, AF, shutter and flash

DVD Quality Video

  • HW based CODECs for low power and high performance
  • Capture and playback-VGA 30fps MPEG4/DivX
  • CIF 30fps H.264 and VC1 decoding
  • PAL/NTSC composite TV out

High End 5MP DSC

  • High quality ISP, supports 5MP CCD and CMOS sensors
  • DSC-like performance and user experience: Fastest click-to-click, burst mode, high frame rate
  • Signal Processing supports AWB, AE, AF, lens shading and bad pixel correction
  • Engines control for optical zoom, AF, shutter and flash

Audio CODECs

  • MIDI player, 64 poly, multiple standard
  • AMR-NB/WB
  • MP3, AAC, AAC+
  • 3D surround audio

2D/3D HW accelerator

  • Low power and high quality gaming accelerator
  • Rendering: 700k polygon per sec
  • Fill rate: 100 Mpixel per sec
  • Open GL ES 1.1 and JSR184 standard API

Mobile Digital TV

  • DVB-H, S/T-DMB mobile TV application including player, time-shift and recorder functions
  • Need only external tuner/demodulator
  • DRM Crypto accelerators for low power deciphering

Peripheral Interfaces

  • UART, I2C
  • USB 2.0 and OTG
  • PCM, AC97, SPI, I2S

Boot memory options

  • ROM on chip for fast and safe boot
  • Bootable NAND flash
  • Bootable SPI Flash
  • Boot from Baseband
  • Boot from UART (hostless testing and development)

Mass storage

  • SD/MMC, MMC V4/dual voltage
  • Large NAND (no size limitation)

Technology

  • ARM9, up to 270MHz
  • 1V (Core) 1.8-3.3V (I/O)
  • 90nm CMOS

Power

  • Sleep (no clock, but LCD bypass) less than 100uW
  • Very low active power due to HW engines and advanced process

Diagrams

APPROACH® 5 Block Diagram