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New Chip for Handheld Mobile Devices

3rd September, 2004

Europe : Having scored a world-first with VideoCore®, Alphamosaic has launched VC02, the world’s most advanced Mobile Multimedia Processor. It can display video on 3.5” colour LCDs and capture 8 Megapixel images, making it ideal for watching TV, making videos or taking studio-quality photos on handheld products such as mobile phones. The power-efficiency of VC02 will allow many hours of continuous operation on a single battery charge, a unique feature for such a high-performance multimedia chip.

Based on Alphamosaic’s new video-processing engine VideoCore®II, VC02 is completely programmable and able to handle the full range of audio and video formats. This makes it ideally suited to the new generation of multimedia-enabled mobile phones as well as solid-state camcorders, handheld digital TV and portable video recorders with miniature hard disk drives. Using your phone to send video clips to your friends, recording a late-night movie to watch on a train the next morning……whatever the application, VC02 is the ideal multimedia solution.

Alphamosaic CEO Dr. Jalal Bagherli said: “Working in close collaboration with our mobile phone VideoCore® customers has given us a deep understanding of their multimedia needs. This has enabled us to design a chip with the optimum feature-set for their next-generation of products, anticipating the trends in handheld multimedia and video-enabled mobile phones.”

VC02 offers a whole range of connectivity options such as USB, SD-Card memory and can even drive a TV or full-size monitor directly. As the most complete mobile multimedia processor offering the longest battery life, VC02 further establishes the VideoCore® family as the industry-standard solution for handheld video and entertainment.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Processor: 150MHz dual-ALU VideoCore®II with 10M bits of on-chip SRAM
Memory Interfaces: Supports SDRAM, SRAM, NAND & NOR Flash as well as cards such as Memory Stick , SD, MMC etc.
Cameras: Up to two 8 Megapixel CMOS/CCD sensors and raw Bayer processing capability
Display: Multiple LCDs up to XGA resolution plus PAL/NTSC analogue output
Serial Interfaces: USB 1.1 slave, I2C master, SPI master and UART
Audio Interfaces: AC’97, I2S and PCM
DRM: Programmable key and CPRM encryption for SD card, AES, 3DES, RSA etc.
MPEG-4 performance: VGA30fps encode (including audio, multiplex, middleware & file system)
Power consumption : 30mW @ MPEG-4 CIF 30fps
Technology: 0.13u CMOS in 281 pin TFBGA package (10.9 x 10.1mm)

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