The Fusion 878A is a complete, low cost, single-chip solution for analog broadcast signal capture on the PCI bus. The Fusion 878A takes advantage of the PCI-based system’s high bandwidth and inherent multimedia capability. It is designed to be interoperable with any other PCI multimedia device at the component or board level.

The Fusion 878A has all the video and audio capture features of the Bt878, plus a whole lot more. Designed to address the demanding requirements of the Personal Computing and digital video industry, Fusion 878A meets PC98/PC99 requirements as well as being fully PCI 2.2 compliant.

Distinguishing Features

• NTSC/PAL/SECAM video decoding

• Supports capture resolutions up to 768 x 576 (full PAL)

• On-chip PCI bus mastering and bridge functionality

• Supports HDTV/audio/MPEG2 transport data across PCI bus

• High-speed serial port support MPEG transport stream up to rates of 40 Mbps

• High-speed parallel port supports MPEG transport streams up to 20 Mbps

• Flexible 24-bit wide GPIO

• CCIR656 interface

• Interfaces to a Digital TV data stream from a VSB or OFDM demodulator

• Multiple YCrCb and RGB pixel formats and YUV planar formats supported on output

• Selectable pixel density: 8, 16, 24, and 32 bits per pixel

• Performs complex clipping of video source and VGA video overlay

• Permits different program control and color space/scaling for even and odd fields

• Executes Windows 98 “Scatter and Gather”

• Integrates advanced chroma and luma comb filters/scalers

• Image scaleable in X and Y direction

• Y/C, 6-tap luma/2-tap chroma polyphase filter

• Receives Digital audio via I2S serial port

• Includes VBI data capture (closed captioning, teletext, and Intercast data decoding)

• 100% PCI Rev. 2.2 compliant

• PC 98/PC 99 compliant

• WHQL-certifiable

• Accepts Mono audio input

• Packaged in compact 128-pin plastic QFP

Fusion 878A Specific Features

• Full stereo decoding for both TV audio (BTSC) and FM radio

• Enhanced GPIO/I2S

• ACPI support

• Byte alignment

• Vital product data

• High speed serial port

• High speed parallel port

Applications

• PC television

• Digital television

• Digital VCR

• Desktop video phone

• Still frame capture

• VBI data service capture