"The TX4961XBG-240 is Toshiba's first TX49-based product to combine a 64- bit CPU and a graphics display controller with a 2D hardware graphics accelerator and video frame grabber. By offloading the graphics, display and video functions to dedicated hardware, the full power of the processor is available for application-specific processing," said Shardul Kazi, vice president of the ASSP Business Unit at Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. "The TX4961XBG-240 offers a high-throughput, cost-effective and reliable system design that is optimized for automotive dashboard displays that combine an instrumentation display with navigation information and video. It is also well-suited for numerous other applications that require the high-quality display of real-time data."

The TX4961XBG-240 features an on-board DDR SDRAM controller, unified memory architecture and multiple on-chip buses that ensure that each on-chip subsystem has sufficient memory bandwidth. The TX4961XBG-240 also incorporates a video frame grabber, AC-Link and I2C controllers, various timers and high-speed serial ports, 10-bit ADC, 16-bit PWM outputs, GPIO ports and CANbus and Media-LB interfaces with DMA, interrupt, external bus and NAND Flash controllers.

    Highlights of the TX4961XBG-240 include the following:
     *  64-bit TX49/H3 MIPS RISC CPU that runs a large code base
        *  Core operates at 240MHz
        *  Integrates 16KB instruction cache and 16KB data cache
     *  Operates in automotive/industrial temperature range of -40 degrees C
        to 85 degrees C ambient temperature
     *  Features 24-bit true color pixels with 8-bit alpha blending on all
        operations to enable very high quality displays
     *  Has a graphics scheduler that offloads the CPU by reading display list
        commands directly from memory and dispatching operations to the
        hardware acceleration engines
     *  Incorporates a 5-layer graphics architecture that eases the task of
        managing overlays
     *  Has engines providing hardware acceleration for flexible
        transformation operations, for rotation and scaling operations, and
        for line and triangle drawing operations
     *  Has a blitting engine that can perform font expansion and scaling
     *  Has ADC and PWM outputs to control LCD brightness and contrast
     *  Housed in a 456-pin PBGA with a 1mm ball pitch

    Pricing and Availability

Samples are currently available and volume production is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2006. The device is priced at $40.00 each in 10,000-piece quantities.

The RBTX4961 reference board is also available.

    For a product brief, please visit:
www.toshiba.com/taec/components/docs/ProdBrief/06C05_TX4961_ProdBrief.pdf

About Toshiba Automotive Semiconductor Solutions

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