Digitization wave, has made, India a key market for ST’s Application Processors and other digital products. With the theme, “Augmenting the Digital Lifestyle of India”, ST recently organized DPG Technology Day event in New Delhi. The company showcased impressive list of demos, which reflected ST’s unparalleled leadership for entry level to UltraHD and HEVC technologies and solutions.
Among many demos showcased in the event, Electronics Maker captured some key demos which are elaborated below
Frog from Wyplay
Frog by Wyplay provides a comprehensive client and server TV middleware to create pay-TV customized solutions. At its core lies a feature-rich device-side software stack configurable with powerful build tools, complemented by optional server-side components with multiscreen, multi-user profiling and social TV functionalities. Designed with open standards and technologies (such as Linux™, OpenGL ES 2.0, Webkit, HTML 5, and more), it fits perfectly well to ST Software architecture.
Key benefits for the operators:
- Offer open source software solution for pay-TV operators
- Broadcast and broadband services, combined with the latest STB middleware and broadband software solutions.
- Bring content discovery to new heights, while blending Social TV applications with multiscreen access and Gesture Navigation to the new connected consumer.
Benefits for the users:
- Get multiple options of watching an even greater quantity of content when they want it, how they want it
- More multimedia content on multi-screen
Android TV
There is a growing interest in Android framework in the STB/Operator industry which is primarily driven by 2 converging trends. Last year in November ST announced the availability of the world’s first STB (Set-Top Box) platform with Google’s Android TV based on Android 5.0 Lollipop.
With the new platform, users will be able to enjoy Android TV along with the complete Android ecosystem, including popular Android games, applications, and services. This is possible because of the unique security mechanisms that are embedded in
the ST SoC devices combined with state-of-the-art decoding, transcoding, and graphics processing.
The STiH412-based Android 5.0 platform is replete with the most advanced set–top-box features, including:
- Multi-decode HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) combined with ‘Picture in Picture’ support;
- A specific SoC architecture combining state-of-the-art graphic capabilities and highly efficient offload processors to optimize the gaming experience and enable 3D user interfaces running together with flawless ultra-high-definition video decoding;
- Transcode capability to distribute broadcast content on a smartphone, tablet or 2nd screen at home without consuming any of the broadband connection bandwidth;
- VP8 encoder to support Google Hangout™;
- Power efficiency for fan-less and small form-factor boxes.
While talking to Electronics Maker during the event, Mr. Rajesh Bhat, Senior Marketing Manager, STMicroelectronics India said “For years, ST has been making it possible to deploy microelectronics more widely, creatively and cost-effectively, addressing key societal challenges as well as enriching people’s lives. “Our event DPG Technology Day was an ideal platform that provided our customer an opportunity to experience ST’s technology leadership in multimedia space; from simple broadcast STBs to sophisticated media gateways/servers. With a dedicated team at India R&D center, we remain committed and are available to work with end-customers to develop their final applications
Android TV
