Wave Issue 0108 2/8/01 Article 3-01

***TVIA's CyberPro 5300 Streaming Media Processor Offers 3D/2D
for Next-Generation Digital TVs and Broadband Set-tops
(February 5)

Tvia is offering the CyberPro 5300 family of streaming media
processors – with 3D/2D graphics and key features for next-
generation digital TVs, digital broadband set-top boxes and
Internet appliances. This integrated CyberPro product family
enables any type of content from any source to be streamed and
displayed for a seamless interactive experience in the home.

Features include three video ports video engine to simultaneously
capture multiple video streams, 2D/3D graphics, DuoVision for
simultaneous display of content on two displays, FlexiBus for
direct interface to multiple CPUs, TVDirect for broadcast picture
quality, eView for picture quality, mView for hardware-magnified
view of content, tView for flexible transparency algorithms, and
Digital Link to interface to an LCD display.

For design flexibility, the CyberPro 5300 Series of four devices
adds to those features with combinations of Macro Vision,
encryption for copy protection, and an audio processor function
that processes such audio formats as MP3, wavetable, MIDI, PCM,
I2S and stereo audio.

The 5300, for example, excludes both of those features. The 5305
adds Macro Vision without the audio processor. The 5350 includes
the audio processor without Macro Vision. The 5355 has both the
audio processor and Macro Vision features.

Part of the 5000 family of advanced streaming-media processors,
the 5300 Series also is based on Tvia's CyberPro architecture.
CyberPro delivers media content by processing multiple data
streams simultaneously. This media content includes audio, video,
voice, text, graphics, pictures and animation. Furthermore,
CyberPro merges, reformats and unifies these disparate data
streams into a single stream for storage, transmission and
display. This unified stream has to be compliant with multiple
input and output requirements including more than six output
interfaces, four audio formats, 12 display formats and four
display types.

The CyberPro architecture allows for a flexible and upgradeable
solution. This is achieved through the Software component of the
CyberPro product family, the Software Development Kit (SDK).
System and applications developers as well as partners can
utilize this SDK to enable and disable various features of the
CyberPro family as well as enable different levels of performance
of each of these features.

Available now, the CyberPro 5300 is priced at $28 each in 1,000-
unitm quantities. Packaging is either 208-pin plastic quad flat
pack (PQFP) or 256-pin plastic ball grid array (PBGA).

www.tvia.com