Motorola's New Single Chip Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder Solution To Enable DVD Recordable Products Designing For the Next Generation DVD

Motorola's DSP56362 has recently been granted the DolbyÆ Digital Consumer Encoder (DDCE) certification by Dolby Laboratories. DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD-camcorders, applications requiring the DDCE technology, may be available to consumers within the next year. In the DSP56362, Motorola provides a comprehensive silicon and software solution in a single chip that provides multichannel decoding (Dolby Digital, DTS Digital Surround or MPEG2 Layer 2) and post decoder processing. The DSP56362 now also supports DDCE. The DSP56362 is currently being used in a variety of consumer audio products, such as audio/video receivers and DVD, digital television and automotive applications. The Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder is a two-channel encoder technology that enables the digital encoding of stereo analog sound for storage on a digital media. Valerie Hase, Operations Manager of Motorola's Digital Audio Operations, explains, ""Many customers have indicated to Motorola that the DDCE has been the missing technology to fully enable recordable DVD products, and Motorola is pleased to provide the industry's first solution to meet these needs,""The first Symphony(R) audio DSP to utilize the DSP56300 core, the DSP56362 has speeds up to 100 MIPS and provides the capability to handle all the major multichannel audio decoding standards as well as other audio processing requirements such as subwoofer management, soundfield effects, 3D virtual surrounds, equalization, Lucasfilm THXÆ Cinema processing and Pacific Microsonics HDCD. According to Ramzi Haidamus, Technology/Business Strategist, Dolby Laboratories, ""Dolby developed their software reference design for DDCE based on Motorola's DSP56300 architecture and is cooperating closely with Motorola on further optimizations. Dolby is pleased to grant Motorola certification for the DSP56362 implementation of Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder and is working closely with Motorola on future versions."" The DSP56362 is now available at authorized Motorola distributors, and a comprehensive set of development tools is available with the product. Free DSP56300 assembler and simulator tools are downloadable from Motorola's Web site at www.dspaudio.motorola.com.