ST showcases connected home SoC at CES

STMicroelectronics showcased its connected home system on chip Orly, now designated STiH416, at CES. Based on a 28 nm manufacturing process, the SoC combines advanced broadband and broadcast functionalities with intensive on-chip computing that includes a dual-core applications processor and a dedicated graphics engine. The STiH416 gives consumers access to the content and internet-based entertainment, as well as personal content, and supports multi-screen experiences, with real-time transcoding capacity for streaming to multiple equipment ranging from smartphones and tablets to large-screen TVs. ST's demonstrations at CES show the STiH416 supporting advanced digital entertainment experiences such as integrated broadcast and OTT internet content, multi-screen multimedia streaming, 3D gaming and TV, social videoconferencing, and home automation communicating with other home devices and sensors. At its heart, the dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore application processor and ARM Mali-400MP quad-core graphics processor enable the system-on-chip to manage software environments such as Android, HTML5, Adobe AIR and Qt for optimised playback of content and applications, and to handle 3D graphics for advanced user interfaces, gaming and 3DTV. An advanced application framework is offered with this device, which makes use of the SoC's advanced security hardened features, in order to allow a framework to run multiple and independent applications simultaneously. The STiH416's multimedia processing subsystem is able to decode multiple H.264 full HD as well as many other video standards such as DivX, Multi View coding (MVC) 3DTV and Google WebM, all with the Faroudja video-image quality. The STiH416 also integrates a dedicated transport processor for seamless streaming, as well as a security processor meeting conditional access and DRM standards. The STiH416 is sampling now to lead customers, in a 35 x 35mm FCBGA package. Full production is scheduled for the second half of 2012.