Austin, TX — (press release excerpt) — Cirrus Logic announced that its CS92288 MPEG Audio/Video codec chip has been incorporated into the Intel Media Center Reference Design. The reference design was created to help hardware and software developers accelerate the development and production of powerful, scaleable, integrated consumer products that offer personal video recording, Web browsing, and video… on demand.

The Cirrus CS92288 codec offers audio and video real-time encoding and decoding in a single, highly integrated device. It supports MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 digital-video standards as well as Dolby Digital and MPEG digital-audio standards. The codec enables high-quality video and audio playback across the widest range of bitrates, offering cost-saving advantages to OEMs. For example, using a lower bitrate setting provides greater content storage capacity for end-users, while allowing OEMs to cut costs on disk drives by potentially using smaller drives that still provide high visual quality.

In addition to the Cirrus Logic CS92288 MPEG Audio/Video codec chip, the Intel Media Center Reference Design incorporates display components from Focus Enhancements, hard drives from Maxtor Corporation, Celeron microprocessors from Intel Corporation, and video decoder components from Sigma Designs. The components are linked together via an embedded Linux-based operating system.

Schematics of the Intel Media Center Reference Design are now available for download to consumer electronics OEMs, set-top box manufacturers, and content and service providers.

 
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