SoCs to boost digital home gateway and PC performance

The 88F6000 series of SoCs features Shiva embedded CPU technology. It brings low power, high performance application processing to next-generation digital home gateways to expand consumers’ entertainment and personal content choices by enabling video, audio and photos from multiple network and in-home sources to be distributed throughout the home.

In IP gateways, set-top boxes, home routers and media servers, the 88F6000 plays the role of a main or co-processor, offloading applications such as the graphical user interface and the web browser from the primary video processor. Typically, these applications slow system performance, creating delays that detract from consumer enjoyment. The 88F6000 series excels by providing the processing power needed to handle multiple data rich applications simultaneously, while reducing power consumption and boosting system performance.

It also adds network attached storage (NAS) functionality to the standard PC architecture, enabling PCs operating in stand-by mode to continue performing network functions such as movie downloads and disk backup, while minimizing power consumption. The SoC, turns a standard PC into a NAS box, securely available over the network and internet. For business PC users, this capability enables convenient “down time” file backup, storage and sharing over the network. It also excels as the primary processing unit in mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and similar small form factor personal computing devices where its high performance and low power consumption make it the ideal solution.

The series initially comes in three versions, the 88F6180, 88F6192 and the 88F6281, with the 88F6281 capable at running of speeds up to 2GHz, while consuming an ultralow sub-2W of power. Each device in the family comes with application software that speeds development and reduces time-to-market. The SoCs come with two serial ATA ports, a USB port, a PCI Express (PCIe) port and an SDIO port among others.