SAA7160

SAA7160 PCI Express based audio and video bridge Rev. 01 — 25 February 2008 Product data sheet 1. General description The SAA7160E and the SAA7160ET are PCI Express based audio and video capture bridges. Both devices provide ports for capturing video streams, transport streams, program streams and audio streams with audio functionality like I2S-bus inputs. The bridges provide audio and video capture function as required for PCI Express applications like Microsoft ‘multimedia center’. The target is to cover a range of performance applications like personal video recording and PC TV cards. The SAA7160E and the SAA7160ET are highly integrated circuits for TV insertion inside PC systems. Additional high-speed programming ports enable high integrated system solutions for multimedia applications. 2. Features 2.1 PCI Express interface SAA7160E and SAA7160ET I Compliant to PCI Express Base Specification 1.0a I Native PCI Express N 64-bit address support N MSI and INT_A message support I The PCI Express circuit supports isochronous data traffic intended for uninterrupted transfer of streaming data like video streaming N x1 PCI Express endpoint device (2.5 Gbit/s) N Low jitter and bit error rate I Type 0 configuration space header N Single BAR; configurable address range of 17 bits, 18 bits, 19 bits or 20 bits dependent on application requirements I DMA write support N 12 DMA write channels for AV streaming N Managing up to 8 software buffers per DMA channel N Buffer size of 2 MB extenda...