Single front-end SOC for accessing CD/DVD/BD with maximum speed

A single front-end SOC with the capability to access all kinds of optical disc is presented. It has the capability to process CD/DVD/BD with maximum speed. It contains an analog front end (AFE), partial response maximum likelihood (PRML) detector, servo-control block, buffer control block etc. It also has numerous analog cores such as analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and phase locked loop (PLL) and digital macros such as digital signal processor (DSP), ARM microprocessor and memories. The presented SOC parallelizes the embedded blocks with the divided channel frequency to enable maximum speed access. It contains 32 million transistors in a 63 mm² die, and is fabricated with 0.13 mum CMOS technology. It has a channel frequency of 530 MHz and a power consumption of 1.1 W at BD 1x speed. It was fully verified with CD/DVD/BD with maximum speed.