Tensilica Has What You Need for Blu-ray Disc Players

The HiFi 2 Audio Engine is the ideal audio DSP for Blu-ray Disc SOCs. Blu-ray Disc unleashes a new level of entertainment in the home with up to 7.1 channel audio, and video that surpasses the quality of standard DVDs by up to 6x. New features include Secondary Audio to support interactive content and director’s commentary, higher resolution compressed audio streams for enhanced audio reproduction, and lossless audio formats that provide bit-for-bit identical reproduction of the original studio master in up to 7.1 channels.

New codecs have been developed and introduced by Dolby and DTS to support these audio capabilities - Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio. The combination of increased codec complexity and support for simultaneous Secondary Audio decoding and mixing of decoded Primary and Secondary audio has resulted in a huge step function increase in signal processing compared to the DVD standard.

The HiFi 2 Audio Engine meets the challenge with extremely efficient implementations of all the mandatory and optional Dolby and DTS codecs enabling the development of area and power efficient Blu-ray Disc SOCs.