VT8601 Via, VT8601 Datasheet - Page 11

• Manufacturer Part Number: VT8601
• Description: Slot-1 / Socket-370 PCI North Bridge
• Manufacturer: Via

Revision 1.3 September 8, 1999
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DVD
Video Processor
Flat Panel Interface
Power Management Support
Testability
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Hardware-Assisted MPEG-2 Architecture for DVD with AC-3
Simultaneous motion compensation and front-end processing (parsing, decryption and decode)
Supports full DVD 1.0, VCD 2.0 and CD-Karaoke
Microsoft DirectShow 3.0 native support, backward compatible to MCI
No additional frame buffer requirements
Sub-picture hardware eliminates Run-Length-Decoder and Alpha Blending overhead
Dynamic frame and field de-interlace filtering for high quality playback on VGA monitors (Bob and Weave)
Tamper-proof software CSS implementation
Freeze, Fast-Forward, Slow Motion, Reverse
Pan-and-Scan support for 16:9 sequence
On-chip Color Space Converter (CSC)
Anti-tearing via two frame buffer based capture surfaces
Minifier for video stream compression and filtering
Horizontal/vertical interpolation with edge recovery
Dual frame buffer apertures for independent memory access for graphics and video
YUV 4:2:2/4:1:1/4:2:0 and RGB formats
Video Module Interface (VMI) to MPEG and video decoder
Vertical Blank Interval for Intercast™
Overlay differing video and graphic color depths
Minifier Video Module Interface (VMI) to MPEG and video decode
Display two simultaneous video streams from both internal AGP and VMI
Two scalers and Color Space Converters (CSC) for independent windows
85MHz Flat Panel interface supports 1024x768 panels
Support for TFT, STN & DSTN panel technologies
Allows external LVDS or TMDS transmitter for advanced panel interfaces
Dynamic power down of SDRAM (CKE)
Independent clock stop controls for CPU / SDRAM, AGP, and PCI bus
PCI and AGP bus clock run and clock generator control
VTT suspend power plane preserves memory data
Suspend-to-DRAM and Self-Refresh operation
EDO self-refresh and SDRAM self-refresh power down
8 bytes of BIOS scratch registers
Low-leakage I/O pads
Build-in NAND-tree pin scan test capability
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