Renesas Technology Corp. has announced the SH-MobileL3V, designed for use in terrestrial digital broadcast capable mobile phones, as a new member of the SH-Mobile Series of mobile phone application processors. Sample shipments will begin in August 2006 in Japan.
The SH-MobileL3V is an application processor resulting from optimization of a high-end mobile phone SH-Mobile Series model for use in terrestrial digital broadcasting and video applications.
The SH-MobileL3V incorporates a VPU4 high-performance video processing IP. The VPU4 supports both the H.264 video compression standard used in one-segment broadcasting and the MPEG-4 standard used up to now for video, video telephony, and suchlike applications. The VPU4 performs almost all video processing by hardware. Consequently, the CPU can execute other processing while the VPU4 is processing H.264-format video data, enabling the frequency to be kept low, and thus making it possible to achieve lower power consumption.
The SH-MobileL3V incorporates an SH4AL-DSP CPU core, and achieves high processing performance of 389 MIPS at a maximum operating frequency of 216 MHz. This CPU core provides unit-frequency processing performance of 1.8 MIPS/MHz, ample for operating a browser with one-segment broadcasting or similar digital TV capability.
To support the higher pixel counts of the latest built-in cameras, the SH-MobileL3V also incorporates a camera interface that allows direct connection of a 5-megapixel-class camera module-the highest pixel count capability of all SH-Mobile Series models.
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