Renesas Electronics Introduces EMMA Mobile EV0-D SoCs

Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of new systems-on-chip that achieve playback of audio and video data in a single chip for portable audio-visual devices, including multimedia players, electronic book readers and network TVs. The new SoCs are EMMA Mobile™ EV series products that incorporate the latest ARM Cortex™ A9 high-performance CPU and integrate on a single chip the functions necessary for MPEG2, MPEG4 and H.264 HDTV video playback.

The new SoCs make it possible to design portable AV devices, e-books and other embedded systems with high functionality and performance, with faster time-to-market and at a low cost. Recently, a large number of diverse products in the portable and handheld space that reproduce multimedia data, such as multimedia players and e-books, have emerged with market growth at an average rate of 10 percent per year, and is expected to reach 450 million units annually by 2013. Furthermore, TVs and other information equipment are evolving toward higher functionality and performance due to internet connectivity, thereby creating a new multimedia AV equipment market for devices with even higher levels of multimedia functionality.