A 0.18 μm CMOS SoC of a front-end hardware platform for DVD-multi recorders

This work presents a 0.18 μm CMOS system on a chip (SoC) that is a hardware platform for the front-end of DVD-multi recorders (FESOC). It has one 32 bit RISC CPU and one 16 bit DSP as well as most of the necessary components for DVD recorders, except for an analog front end (AFE) and some memories. The necessary building blocks are a partial response channel maximum likelihood detector (PRML), a servo signal processor (SERVO), write strategy controller (WSC), a data processor (DP), an AT-attachment packet interface (ATAPI), and a micro computer unit (MCU). Using a three-layered bus architecture enables this FESOC to work well with a 16 bit-wide bus at 67 MHz for 8× DVD operation, and to be implemented with a short development time. The FESOC is fabricated in 0.18 μm 1-poly 5-metal CMOS technology. It contains 8.4 million transistors in a 46 mm² die and consumes 1.4 W with a channel clock of 209.28 MHz in 8× operation mode.