Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Tvia, Inc. today announced that it has released the CyberPro5202, the latest in its family of feature rich multimedia processors. CyberPro5202 merges multiple independent streams of audio, video, text, graphics and animation and delivers high quality output streams for display to multiple devices such as traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions, digital… televisions (DTVs), panel displays, information access devices (IADs), and LCD products.

To help customers minimize cost and software development time, Tvia's CyberPro5202 supports a suite of proven operating systems including Embedded Linux. Development source code (SDK) is available.

The CyberPro5202 expands existing CyberPro technology with a 24-bit RGB digital interface that directly supports LCD displays and other digital interfaces. Enhanced, flexible alpha-blending capabilities allow overlay of different windows with programmable levels of opacity. Two advanced TV encoders allow the user to configure the recording picture in PVR applications. Magic color maintains crisp text presentation, even as the opacity of the window is varied.

The integrated graphics engine is vital for Information Access Devices (IADs) that require exceptional graphics performance to manage applications such as system menuing, Electronic Programming Guide (EPG), Internet windows or other graphics-intense applications. Together, an integrated TV encoder and broadcast quality video DACs permit video, text, graphics and animation streams to be displayed through flexible TV outputs to traditional CRT TVs formats including NTSC/PAL, Composite video, S-video, YCrCb/YPrPb component video, or Scart RGB.

The CyberPro5202 supports FlexiBUS architecture, a configurable bus interface that supports a PCI bus or most major CPUs directly.

 
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