Zoran Corporation's SupraXD 170 and SupraXD 180 families of highly integrated processors for advanced global set-top boxes support extended decoding for a broad range of video formats including H.264, MPEG-2, VC1, and others.

The SupraXD 170 and 180 processors was demonstrated in a new family of pay satellite set-top boxes at the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2008.

"We are delighted to demonstrate our first set-top boxes based on our SupraXD processors at IBC. These processors represent significant investments by Zoran to bring its leading-edge technology and price-performance solutions into the Advanced Pay TV and IP Set-top box markets. Zoran delivers flexibility and lower system costs through integration, the advanced security requirements of leading conditional access vendors, and high quality video processing leveraging our digital television expertise for global markets," said Eric Schiff, director set-top box product line, Zoran's home entertainment division.

The SupraXD 170 and 180 processor families are fully pin-to-pin and software compatible and SVP compliant. The SupraXD 170 processor supports all features of the SupraXD 180 processor; however, it only decodes standard definition video formats. Both processors enable upscaling to 1080p HDMI. Advanced features include: fast hardware-based JPEG decoding, support for popular memory card formats, two tuner digital video recording using a SATA or USB hard drive, Motion Adaptive De-interlacing, and high quality video scaling and noise reduction for outstanding picture quality. Also included are descramblers needed for a broad range of global copy protection formats including: DVB-CSA, DES, 3DES, AES, *** ICAM, MULTI2 and other formats.

Both processors integrate two high performance MIPS32 CPUs, 32bit DDR2 DRAM, multi-stream transport demultiplexer with extensive advanced security support, 10/100 Ethernet MAC, audio DSP decoding a wide range of formats, a multi-format video decoder supporting H.264, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile and VC1, high quality graphics and video with 1080p HDMI 1.3 output supporting the Consumer Electronic Control (CEC) standard, audio DAC, digital timing oscillator, smart card protection and power control functions, support for two slot DVB-Common Interface (DVB-CI) with integrated buffers.