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Samsung products in set-top boxes: Memory, logic, storage
On-demand shows, pay-per-view movies, broadband TV services and mini-dish systems are spurring the digital set-top box market, where Samsung components are widely used. High density and speed are key features of these components, which include storage options for set-top box systems that also record programming.
Samsung Product Lines for Set-top Boxes

DRAM – memory
Graphics DRAM – frame buffer
NAND flash – memory; storage
DTV receiver – digital broadcast receiver
Audio decoder - audio decoding & processing
ASIC – controllers
HDD – storage
ODD – storage

Samsung set-top box-related product literature:
Memory
Logic
Storage

Samsung Set-top Box Components Selection Chart

  Component

  Samsung Products

  Features

DRAM

Consumer DRAM components

Densities: 64Mb-1Gb

Speeds: 200Mbps-1.6Gbps

Graphics DRAM

 

GDDR4

Density: 512Mb

Speeds: 1100-1600MHz

GDDR3

Densities: 256-512Mb

Speeds: 700-1000MHz

GDDR2

Densities 256-512Mb

Speeds: 350-500MHz
GDDR1

Densities 128-256Mb

Speeds: 200-250MHz

NAND flash

 

Discrete Components

Densities:
SLC: 256Mb-32Gb
MLC: 8-64Gb

OneNAND Flash fusion memory

Densities: 256Mb-4Gb

Digital media

Digital audio recorder components (single chip or SoC)

Audio formats include MP3, WMA, AAC, Ogg Vorbis

DVD receiver or recorder SoC

ARM9-based with array of interfaces

ASIC

Custom ASIC solutions

Contact Samsung

Samsung foundry

Email foundry@ssi.samsung.com

HDD

Hard disk drives

3.5”: 40-500GB capacity
2.5”: 40-250GB capacity
1.8": 20-60GB capacity

ODD

CD/DVD-ROM; CD/DVD Writer

Up to 8.5GB

Interfaces: SATA, EIDE, ATAPI