Cavium has announced the Celestial CNC1800L multi-format, high definition set top box SoC processor for OTT (over the top), IPTV, and digital cable set top box applications.
The company's SoC processor combines multi-standard video decoders supporting both legacy MPEG-2 and highly compressed H.264 video and multimedia content. These features are claimed to ensure compatibility with existing and future network deployments and access to streaming internet video and services. The multi-channel audio decoder and post processor in the SoC provides cinema quality audio experience.
The SoC also includes an ARM CPU and 2D graphics that can run middleware and open source environments, such as iPanel and Android. Additional features include content storage and processing for recording of live broadcasts and creation of media libraries. The features also allow recording and time-shifting of analogue broadcasts, video chat, video conferencing and video transcoding.
Additionally, all members of the SoC include the company's WiVu wireless video distribution technology. This feature enables set top box products to receive and stream video from a variety of mobile devices and consumer appliances such as smart phones, tablets, laptop and desktop PCs.
The SoC uses ARM CPUs with memory management units supporting DDR2 and DDR3 DRAM, programmable multi-stream transport de-multiplexers and digital content recording engines. It also supports conditional access standards, including Nagravision and the digital rights management technology.
