Broadcom expands mid-range cable, IPTV STB SoC line-up

Broadcom Corp. has announced the next generation of its mid-range cable and IPTV set-top box (STB) SoC devices. According to the company, the upgraded chips integrate the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) to deliver up to a 50 per cent reduction in bandwidth for similar video quality, allowing operators to leverage huge bandwidth cost savings as they migrate to cloud based all-IP video delivery.

Broadcom's upgrades to its high-volume cable and IP STB silicon solutions are engineered as hardware drop-in upgrades to existing designs for fast and low-cost OEM and operator modernisations to existing high-volume production platforms.

The BCM72415/BCM74285, which are Pay-TV IP STB SoCs, feature full HD 1080p60 HEVC 8bit and 10bit decode; certified multi-vendor advanced conditional access and DRM support; and advanced power management technology supporting international standards for low-power and Wake-on-LAN (WOL) modes. They boast a 1.2GHz application processor, a high-performance VC4 OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics processor, and a Nexus-Trellis STB API supporting advanced 3rd party and RDK middleware software solutions. The BCM74285 IP Client includes an integrated 400Mb/s MoCA 2.0 IP Coax modem.

The BCM74295/BCM74305, which are Pay-TV Multi-room HD-DVR and Cloud DVR (Digital Video Recorder) STB SoCs, feature full HD 1080p60 HEVC 8bit and 10bit decode; integrated MoCA 2.0 modem providing 400Mb/s IP video networking over Coax; advanced power management technology supporting international standards for low-power and Wake-on-LAN (WOL) modes; and a Nexus-Trellis STB API supporting advanced 3rd party and RDK middleware software solutions.

Broadcom's BCM72415, BCM74285, BCM74295 and BCM7430 are sampling.