A 0.13/spl mu/m CMOS SoC for all format blue and red laser DVD front-end digital signal processor

This paper presents an all-format DVD SoC front-end DSP capable of 550Mb/s for HD-DVD, Blu-ray disc and DVD/CD red laser rewritable standards. This chip includes an analog front-end; PRML read channel, disc controller, servo system and dual processor. The analog blocks contain 640k transistors, and the digital blocks consist of 2.3M gates with a die area of 62mm 2