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Sigma Designs offers high-performance, highly-integrated System-on-a-Chip (SoC) semiconductors that enable digital media processing and wireless networking solutions for consumer products.

      

The company's line of digital media processing chips features the highest quality video. The company complements its silicon technology with embedded software, portable to a wide range of operating environments. Featuring video-on-demand and media navigation clients, the company's software is available for the Linux and WinCE operating systems. In addition, the company develops and sells reference platforms designed around its silicon and software as application examples for customer development.

• The SMP8650 Series represents the first single-chip solution optimized to support high-definition IPTV set-top boxes, thus lowering set-top box cost while increasing performance. The Secure Media Processor architecture protects premium content and supports a wide variety of DRM and conditional access solutions.
  
  
• The SMP8640 Series handles the advanced requirements of applications requiring high-performance and dual HD decoding, including the China AVS standard. Powerful audio processing handles all standard audio formats, including DTS-HD MA 7.1 decoding for Blu-ray players. The Secure Media Processor architecture is designed to protect premium content and support a wide variety of DRM and conditional access solutions. The SMP8640 Series is ideal for IPTV set-top boxes, Blu-ray players, and Tru2way cable set-top boxes.
  
  
• The SMP8630 Series represents the first single-chip solution to support high-definition MPEG-4.10 (H.264), SMPTE 421M (VC-1) and MPEG-4/-2/-1 decoding, handling the advanced requirements of MSTV IPTV set-top boxes and Blu-ray players/recorders. The new Secure Media Processor architecture is designed to protect premium content and support a wide variety of DRM and conditional access solutions. The SMP8630 Series is ideal for digital media adapters, IPTV set-top boxes, digital televisions, and Blu-ray players/recorders.
  
  
• The EM8620L Series represents the first high-definition (HD) Windows Media® 9 decoder silicon solution and also supports DVD and HD MPEG-4.2 and MPEG-2 decoding. Later versions of the silicon also support MPEG-4.10 (H.264) and SMPTE 421M (VC-1). The EM8620L Series is ideal for digital media adapters, IPTV set-top boxes, networked DVD players, portable media players and digital televisions.
  
  
• The EM8610 Series was the first HDTV decoder silicon solution to also support MPEG-4.2 and IPTV. Designed for HDTVs and advanced set-top boxes, they also offered advanced audio/video processing and progressive DVD playback. The software-compatible EM8610L Series addressed the more cost-sensitive SDTV market.
  
  
• The EM8500 Series was the first solution for DVD players to support MPEG-4.2 and DivX™. It was also the first to feature high-quality scaling to HDTV resolutions and support for DVI. The unique features of the EM8500 Series enabled the availability of portable media players, networked DVD players and low-cost digital media adapters.
  
  
• The EM8400 Series provided MPEG-4, -2 and -1 video and audio decoding for broadband interactive set-top boxes, including products from Fujitsu-Siemens, Acer and Samsung. The EM8400 Series represented one of the first MPEG-4.2 silicon solutions for the set-top box market.
  
  
• The original EM8220 provided MPEG-2 and -1 video decoding solutions for PC-based DVD playback and streaming video, which won wide acclaim as the top MPEG hardware for the PC, and included retail offerings by Creative Labs, Sony and Panasonic.
  
  

The company's line of VXP® Image Processing chips bring video quality to a new level by offering a complete package of the world’s highest quality video processing algorithms for deinterlacing, scaling, image enhancement and frame rate conversion in a single chip. Whether the content is standard definition or high definition, VXP® technology provides a studio-quality image for displays up to and exceeding 1080p. In addition, the company develops and sells reference design kits for its silicon and embedded software as application examples for customer development.

• The GF9452 is the first VXP image processor to feature 12-bit, fully independent dual-channel functionality. It offers the most complete package of cost effective broadcast quality image processing in any integrated single chip solution. At the heart of the GF9452 is Sigma’s VXP image processing core comprising fully motion and edge adaptive deinterlacing, adaptive block, mosquito and 2D/3D noise reduction, adaptive detail enhancement and adaptive contrast enhancement. In addition to providing a single output with various dual picture modes, the GF9452 can be used as two fully independent VXP image processing channels from input to output. The device also features a powerful 2D graphics engine with multiple layers, allowing sophisticated on-screen display generation. The GF9452 is fully integrated into the Viper™ Application Builder tool chain and supports the VXP Communication Protocol for command and control, making the device extremely simple to configure and control.
  
  
• The GF9450 offers a cost effective system on a chip solution which, in combination with the VIPER™ Application Builder Software, is simply the highest quality image processing solution. Flexibility, performance and integration make VXP® the optimal solution, particularly for mixed video, film and graphics, and device operation is designed for flexibility to meet future standards. The suite of proprietary algorithms implemented in the GF9450 includes full motion-adaptive deinterlacing with directional processing, film mode processing, 2D and 3D noise reduction, compression artifact reduction and detail enhancement, all implemented in a studio-quality 10-bits of precision.
  
  

The company's line of UWB chips enable consumer products to easily support high-quality, high-speed wireless audio/video streaming within the home. In addition, the company develops and sells evaluation platforms designed around its silicon and embedded software as application examples for customer development.

• The Windeo® UWB chipset represents a complete solution for wireless audio/video streaming. Based on the WiMedia Alliance specifications, the chipset is comprised of two devices: the RF IC (B7CW101) and the Baseband IC (B7CW201). Our patent-pending Intelligent Array Radio™ (IAR) multiple antenna technology offers reliable Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) video streaming (up to 200 Mbps) with superior quality over an extended range. The Windeo® UWB chipset is ideal for digital media adapters, IPTV set-top boxes, digital televisions and Blu-ray players.