Technology

Sigma Designs is a technology leader, constantly enabling the creation of new consumer electronics products and services. Our solutions are often introduced a year or more ahead of the competition. Some of our industry firsts include:

• DVD decoder with support for DivX™, DVI and upscaling to HDTV
  
  
• MPEG-4.2 HD video decoding
  
  
• MPEG-4.10 (H.264) HD video decoding
  
  
• WMV9 HD video decoding, WMA audio decoding
  
  
• SMPTE 421M (VC-1) HD video decoding
  
  
• Dolby Digital Plus and TrueHD audio decoding
  
  
• Single-chip solution for HD IPTV set-top boxes
  
  
• Single-chip solution for Blu-ray players
  
  
• Single-chip solution for Microsoft® Media Center Extender (MCX) technology
  
  
• Single-chip solution for HDTVs that support MPEG-4.10 (H.264), Dolby® Digital Plus, DLNA, and Microsoft® MCX
  
  
• "Secure Media Processor" architecture
  

These industry firsts enabled many new consumer electronics products, such as:

• Low cost IPTV set-top boxes, enabling Telcos to offer video, voice and data services
  
  
• HDTVs and Blu-ray players with integrated Digital Media Adapter features
  
  
• Low cost Digital Media Adapters that can stream content from a PC or media server
  
  
• Portable Media Players capable of playing HD content
  

Sigma believes that its field-proven technology, now in its seventh generation of silicon and equivalent evolution of software, represents one of its key competitive advantages. The company continues to invest and build on seven primary technology foundations to provide the highest quality digital video/audio solutions possible:

Digital video decoding including MPEG-4.10 (H.264), SMPTE 421M (VC-1), AVS, MPEG-4.2, MPEG-2.2, MPEG-1.2 and proprietary formats, including Windows Media® Digital audio decoding including MPEG-4.3, MPEG-2.3, MPEG-2.7, MPEG-1.3, DRA and proprietary formats, including Dolby®, DTS® and Windows Media® VXP® advanced video processing, including scaling, deinterlacing, noise reduction and many types of image enhancement Secure processing of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Conditional Access (CA) algorithms and transport handling Software clients for video-on-demand (VOD) and IP multicast Navigation software for Blu-ray, DVD, SVCD, VCD, CD and HDD playback Ultra-wideband (UWB) for wireless audio/ video streaming, based on Wimedia Alliance specifications. Our patent-pending Intelligent Array Radio™ (IAR) multiple antenna technology offers reliable Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) video streaming with superior quality over an extended range.