BCM7325

® Brief
HIGH-DEFINITION SATELLITE SYSTEM-ON-CHIP
FEATURES SUMMARY OF BENEFITS

• Integrated wideband silicon tuner (250 – 2150 MHz) with • Provides a cost-effective single-chip solution for high-
DiSEqC 2.x and programmable FSK transceiver definition Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) applications.
• Integrated demodulators • Full DVR support for trick modes via USB
• DVB-S2 8PSK demodulator
• Based on field-proven and production-ready subsystems
• QPSK demodulator (market-dependant) offering energy-efficient performance.
• AVC-compliant video decoder for MPEG-4 Parts 2 and 10, • Feature-rich, fully integrated SoC reduces PCB real estate.
MPEG-2, VC-1, ATSC, DivX®, and Xvid
• Supports cost-effective DDR2-based memory in both UMA
• Programmable decoder supports multiple formats including and non-UMA modes.
MPEG Layers 1 and 2, AC3, AAC, and PCM Audio
• Multi-threaded 333 MHz MIPS CPU 128 KB L2 Cache • Advanced 2D graphics system allows a variety of applications
to deliver studio-quality text and graphics on television
• MMU and FPU support, EJTAG debug interface screens.
• 400 MHz Clock (800 MHz Data) rate DDR2 memory • Broadcom-developed device drivers enable rapid software
• 2D graphics based on Broadcom® Graphics Engine development cycles with support of industry-standard
operation systems.
• 10/100 Ethernet with PHY and MII
• Industry-leading third-party operating systems, toolchains,
• Dual USB 2.0 ports and middleware supported.
• On-chip Security Processor, with DVB-CI support • 65 nm process technology offers low power and lower cost.
• Boot from NAND or NOR Flash

BCM7325 Single-Chip System Block Diagram

Stereo Audio Out S/PDIF Out YPbPr OUT Dual USB 2.0
10/100 Satellite
Video RF Out Ethernet Input
HDMI Out
Out

S/PDIF HDMI/DVI NTSC/ Comp.

Out Out PAL Video
deo
Video
Audio
Out
USB 2.0 LNA

Ethernet
E

250 - 2150 MHz IF Input

DDR2 SDRAM
400 MHz BCM7325
32/16-Bit
525 DMIPS
HD, AVC, VC-1
Conditional Access
PCI/IF Smart Card
Front Panel
I/F
MoCATM
Optional HomePlug AV Flash
802.11g,n 64 MB IR I/F
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2x IR/LED/Key
3x UART,
2x Smart Card,
L/R Audio Out Digital Audio 1x UHF RX

333-MHz MIPS CPU PCM Audio I2S In/Out

DiSEqC Engine S/PDIF Peripherals
32K D/I Cache 128K L2 Soft Modem Soft Modem
DACs

Component
Integrated 8PSK Advanced 6x Video
RF In S-Video
Tuner Demod Audio DACs Composite
Processor
Video and
Data Graphics HDMI HDMI
Transport Processing
AVC/VC-1
MPEG-2/4
I/Q Inputs QPSK Video RF Mod Ch. 3/4
Demod Decoder

MAC +
Ethernet/MII
DDR2 DRAM 32-bit 2D Integrated PHY
Security
EJTAG BSC PCI/EBI Controller Graphics
Processor
800 MHz (Data) Processor USB 2.0 Dual USB 2.0

Test ICE 4x BSC FLASH,

32-bit UMA, 16-bit UMA,
PCMCIA
16/16-bit Non-UMA

BCM7325 Block Diagram

The BCM7325 is Broadcom’s next-generation satellite set-top box decoding external TS input from the10/100 Ethernet port. Several
system on a single chip in 65 nm process. It integrates a single tuner/ interfaces required for TV output are integrated on-chip including the
demodulator from the BCM4506 front-end technology and the latest HDMI, baseband composite, component, or S-Video. An RF channel
generation of AVC decoder that supports multiple video formats. The 3/4 modulated output is also integrated on-chip. An HD video encoder
BCM7325 supports worldwide standards for DBS transmission systems with copy protection that supports NTSC, PAL, and SECAM with
based on DVB-S2 and 8PSK, and is backward compatible with the simultaneous SD output and optional Macrovision/DCS support is
DVB-S standards. integrated on-chip.
The BCM7325 operates on a multi-threaded MIPS CPU core running at The BCM7325 incorporates Broadcom’s advanced 2D graphics engine,
333 MHz and yielding over 525 DMIPS in performance. The BCM7325 offering true studio-quality text and graphics with efficient use of
is designed with 32-bit wide Double Data Rate (DDR2) memory I/F for memory and bandwidth.
enhanced performance and allows cost-effective memory solutions. The
A full range of peripheral devices is supported on the BCM7325,
BCM7325 supports UMA and non-UMA memory architectures,
including UARTs, dual ISO7816 smart card interfaces, GPIO, counters/
utilizing a 400 MHz clock.
timers, IR Tx/Rx, UHF Rx, I2C, and SPI controllers.
The BCM7325 is a true single chip that can decode transport streams
delivered via the integrated DBS front end. In addition, it is capable of

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