Newman Ultra is the first member of the Newman family of TV SoCs, part of ST's industry-leading broadcast plus connected-services platforms. The FLI7680 (code-named Newman Ultra) delivers unrivalled performance and represents a giant leap forward in the state-of-the-art in SoCs for Smart TVs. Newman Ultra is a high-performance, flexible, highly integrated and secured Smart TV SoC.
At the heart of this new device, the combination of an ARM® Dual-Cortex™-A9 SMP application processor with 1 MB cache and an ARM® Mali™ 4PP graphics processor, as well as dedicated audio and video decoders, crypto processor and flexible composition engine, deliver uncompromising system performance. With this, Newman Ultra is naturally suited to support the new era of value-added services and ecosystems, such as Google TV™.
Furthermore, its optimized Smart TV architecture allows for smoothly combining multiple video sources and applications in the same screen view, making it the ultimate entertainment platform, where traditional broadcast, video on demand, games, and social networks can coexist, powered by innovative and intuitive user interfaces.
Newman Ultra also continues to innovate audio/video processing under the Faroudja brand to deliver an unmatched front-of-screen experience. Key technology improvements in this area include 14-bit color and contrast processing, upgraded sharpness, upgraded temporal noise reduction, and new MPEG noise reduction. It also supports all connectivity requirements to latest 3D sources and all 3D formats defined in the HDMI 1.4a specification.
Along with an embedded field proven EU/US demodulator allowing cost-effective and easy deployment, it integrates a new dedicated security processor capable of supporting the world's expanding range of security providers' schemes to ensure the ultimate protection for premium content and personal data.
ST's strong and extensive relationships with popular Internet TV and social service providers give TV OEMs a fast ramp-up to deliver compelling value-add content to the living room, and ST's long term partnership with leading CA vendors makes it the perfect SoC for secured content delivery to the end-user.
DATA BRIEF
- Dual ARM® Cortex™ A9 SMP @ 1.2 GHz --> Ultimate applications and connected TV experience
- 1 Mbyte L2 cache --> Best-in-class Smart TV applications performance
- High-performance ARM MALI-400 4PP 3D GPU (OpenGL ES 2.0/OpenVG 1.1) --> Innovative user-interface, Flash applications, and unprecedented gaming capabilities
- Latest generation “Delta” video decoder with dedicated ST231 DSP and support for all possible video codec and standards
- Dual ST231 @ 600 MHz for audio decode and post-processing
- Field-proven embedded EU/US demodulators, with support for DVB-T/C and ATSC/QAM
- Worldwide analog audio/video demodulator (VIF + SIF demod)
- Extensive digital connectivity
- HDMI 1.4a/DP 1.2 combo receiver
- Second HDMI 1.4a receiver
- Triple USB, eSATA, and PCIe
- Picture-in-Picture with dual HD decode capabilities --> Flexible viewing
- Extensive legacy analog A/V inputs/output --> End-user convenience for easy to connect equipment
- Advanced security with trusted CPU and DRM support including HDCP, AES/3DES, CI/CI+ and all major CA vendors
- Faroudja® video processing --> Main video bringing vivid picture quality for the consumer
- 14/16-bit Advanced Color Management (3D) and Contrast processing --> Ultimate video quality for OEMs and consumers
- Award-winning DCDi® and MADi technologies --> Crystal-clear rendering on 1080p displays
- 60 Hz 3D line-interleaved embedded, with support for all major 3DTV formats
- 64-bit DDR3 1866 Mbps DRAM interface --> Performance and flexibility with DRAM ICs
- Dual high-speed 10-bit LVDS output --> Convenient connectivity to panel TCON
- User Kernel API (SDK) accelerates time to market
