Ziva-5 Datasheet | LSI Logic Corporation

features such as true multi-channel high-resolution audio, visual menus, lyrics and high-resolution still pictures. DVD-Audio brings the unprecedented sound quality and fullness of the live music experience into the home. Together, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technologies will bee the center of high-quality home entertainment. Using the new C-Cube Zi VA-5 DVD System Processor, consumer electronics manufacturers can introduce products that will play both DVD-Video and DVD-Audio discs across the full price-point spectrum of consumer DVD products. TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND With any new technology and format e new specifications and terminology. Key DVD-Audio specifications, contrasted with CDDA, are listed in Table 1. Table 1: DVD-Audio Specifications versus CDDA Specifications Specification Disc type DVD-Audio Single-sided, single-layer: 4.7GB Single-sided, double-layer: 8.5 GB Double-sided, single-layer: 9.4 GB Double-sided, double layer: 17 GB Variable: - Up to 86 hours of stereo audio - More than 74 minutes of multichannel audio Up to 9.6 Mbps Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM) Meridian Lossless packing (MLP) Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG stereo, MPEG multi-channel Up to 6 channels 48 k Hz, 96 k Hz, 192 k Hz; or 44.1 k Hz, 88.2 k Hz, 176.4 k Hz 48 k Hz, 96k Hz; or 44.1 k Hz, 88.2 k Hz 12, 16, 20 or 24 bits 0 - 96 k Hz 144 d B CDDA 650 MB Play time Fixed: - 74 minutes of stereo audio 1.4 Mbps Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) N/A N/A 2 channels (stereo only) 44.1 k Hz N/A 16 bits 5 - 22.05 k Hz 96 d B Bit rate Unpressed audio format Advanced pressed audio format Optional audio formats Audio channels Sampling Frequency, 2-channel Sampling rate, multi-channel Sample resolution Frequency response Dynamic range .. The listed specifications are quite impressive once they are understood in terms of listening experience. CDDA quality sound is good, but the frequency response and dynamic range of DVD-Audio takes sound quality to the next level, as discussed below. Sampling Frequency and Frequency...