An embedded system design for high definition media player

With the huge increase in popularity of high definition applications, the traditional media player can not meet the demand for high-definition media broadcasting nowadays. This paper is focused on the system design of a next-generation progressive high definition media player based on Sigma Designs EM8623L, which adopted an embedded platform architecture and hardware decoding technology that support playback of multiple video and audio file formats. The paper details the implementation of system hardware and software. The practice results have shown that this product has low-cost, low power, portable appearance and powerful advanced high definition playback performance, and confirmed to be satisfactory by the development team and market consumers.