Overview
The MIPS ARC® Audio Dolby Digital Plus® 7.1 Decoder enables SoC designers to provide playback of up to 7.1 (multi-) channel digital surround audio in their designs. Dolby Digital Plus (or Enhanced AC-3, E-AC-3) includes up to seven full-range audio channels (left, center, right, left surround, right surround, back surround left, back surround right), plus a supplemental Low-Frequency-Effects (LFE) channel (indicated by the ‘.1’ in 7.1). Dolby Digital Plus is one of the optional decoders for Blu-ray Disc™. Applications include digital TV, set top boxes, HD broadcast, media players, home theater systems and Blu-ray Disc.
Supported Cores
Highlights & Key Features
- Support of Dolby Digital (AC-3) streams, the first independent substream (either Dolby Digital or Dolby Digital Plus) and the first dependent substream (associated with the independent substream) of Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3) streams (ATSC A/52B and ETSI TS 102 366 standards with Annex E)
- Support of AC-3 Karaoke Mode (Annex C of ATSC A/52B and ETSI TS 102 366 standards)
- Support of Alternate bitstream (Annex D of ATSC A/52)
- Support of Extended bitstream (Annex E of ATSC A/52)
- Output up to 7.1 or 6.2 channels PCM
- Sampling Rates of 32 / 44.1 / 48 kHz
- Optional higher sampling rates of 88.2 and 96 kHz through an integrated Sampling Rate Converter
- Bitrates up to 6.144 Mbps
- Dialogue Normalization and Dynamic Range Compression
- Down-mixing of multi-channel audio
- Re-matrixing (in stereo mode)
- Error detection and concealment
- Optional generation of metadata for BD Audio Post-Processing: Primary/secondary stream ID Primary/secondary DRC ready Primary custom downmix coefficients Secondary overall gain for primary audio Secondary individual gains for primary audio
- Primary/secondary stream ID
- Primary/secondary DRC ready
- Primary custom downmix coefficients
- Secondary overall gain for primary audio
- Secondary individual gains for primary audio
Product Details
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| The MIPS ARC® Audio Dolby Digital Plus® 7.1 Decoder enables SoC designers to provide playback of up to 7.1 (multi-) channel digital surround audio in their designs. Dolby Digital Plus (or Enhanced AC-3, E-AC-3) includes up to seven full-range audio channels (left, center, right, left surround, right surround, back surround left, back surround right), plus a supplemental Low-Frequency-Effects (LFE) channel (indicated by the '.1' in 7.1). Dolby Digital Plus is one of the optional decoders for Blu-ray Disc™. Applications include digital TV, set top boxes, HD broadcast, media players, home theater systems and Blu-ray Disc. Supported Cores AS211SFX AS221BD | STARs | Subscribe |
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| Description | The MIPS ARC® Audio Dolby Digital Plus® 7.1 Decoder enables SoC designers to provide playback of up to 7.1 (multi-) channel digital surround audio in their designs. Dolby Digital Plus (or Enhanced AC-3, E-AC-3) includes up to seven full-range audio channels (left, center, right, left surround, right surround, back surround left, back surround right), plus a supplemental Low-Frequency-Effects (LFE) channel (indicated by the '.1' in 7.1). Dolby Digital Plus is one of the optional decoders for Blu-ray Disc™. Applications include digital TV, set top boxes, HD broadcast, media players, home theater systems and Blu-ray Disc. Supported Cores AS211SFX AS221BD |
| Name | MIPS-arc-audio-dolby-digital-plus-7-1-decoder |
| Version | 4.9b |
| ECCN | 3E991/NLR |
| STARs | Open and/or Closed STARs |
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| Product Type | DesignWare Cores |
| Documentation | Datasheet: PDF |
| Download | MIPS-arc-audio-dolby-digital-plus-7-1-decoder |
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