Abstract
In this paper, a single chip HDTV decoder is presented which drastically cuts down the cost of the HDTV receiver. The cost reduction is achieved by integration of the system parser, down-converting video decoder, and multi-mode audio decoder. System designers can also benefit from the features of our decoder which requires only 4 Mbytes of SDRAM for decoding the HDTV signal and various system-level functions such as the IEEE 1394 bus interface, I super(2)C bus controller and on-chip clock recovery function