Increase Flexibility & Reduce Costs in Consumer Applications
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Primary Benefit
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PLD flexibility reduces logic costs by 66 percent
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Additional Benefits
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- Reduced board size
- In-field upgrades
- Time-to-market
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Standard ICs Integrated
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- USB 2.0 ASSP
- Analog video encoder ASSP
- Analog video decoder ASSP
- Audio A/D/D/A
- IEEE 1394 link/PHY ASSP
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The current state of the consumer electronics market is forcing product developers in this space to re-evaluate their existing development models. The traditional methods of relying on ASSPs or custom ASICs to achieve the lowest cost are proving inadequate to the demands for rapid innovation and increased product differentiation.
Consumer electronics product developers increasingly turn to programmable logic-based solutions to respond to rapidly changing needs of consumers and deliver new features and capabilities, a trend which has been encouraged by the recent proliferation of successful low-cost programmable logic offerings. In the design of their Studio Moviebox Deluxe, Pinnacle Systems leveraged programmable logic flexibility to lower costs and deliver significant product differentiation.
The programmable logic-based approach enabled Pinnacle Systems to reduce their custom logic utilization by nearly two-thirds and integrate several ASSPs into a cost-effective consumer video appliance.
Figure 1: Pinnacle Systems' Studio Moviebox Deluxe
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