TwinHan Technology Co

TwinHan Technology Co., Ltd.

Digitalize Your Vision

TwinHan Technology Co., Ltd. Your best partner for digital vision solution 2

Company Profile

Founded in : January 1996

Capital : US$ 10 Million

Employees : 103 (65 R&D)

Headquarter : Taipei ; Taiwan

Branch : Hsin-Chu , China, USA

Certified : ISO 9001 (TUV)


Shareholder Structure

MITSUBISHI

10%

Concard Security

2%

PC Home

4%

Bank of France

13%

Internal Team

66%

Realtek

2%

SYNNEX

3%


Company Vision


Product Application

Interactive

Set Top Box

PC

IA Internet

Digital TV

E-Commerce


Business Model

TwinHan

Technology

Key Components

+ Driver

+ Software

+ Technical Support

System

Maker

DTV Card

Or

DSTB

• End User

• OEM/ODM

Client

• Broadcasting

Operators

Digital TV Solution & Applications


Product Segmentation

OEM/ODM

CA/CI system

ASIC

FPGA

Chipset STB/TV SET

IA Box

Home Gateway

Driver

Firmware

OS

Hardware

PCI Card

USB/1394 Box

PCMCIA SET

Middleware

Applications

UI


Customer Segmentation

Content Provider/Broadcaster

TV Broadcasters,

Content provider or

System provider

(ASTRA, Hughes)

System /Box Maker

STB, Home PC or IA Maker

(NEC, Compaq, AVerMedia,

MSI, Legend…..etc)

Channel

End Users or Players through

Distributor

(Dotwell, Fusitec)


Product Road Map

End-Product

DVB S /DVS DVC : FTA/CI/CA

DVT+A : CI/CA

DVC+A : CI/CA

IP

DSS/ATSC +NDS

HD/HDTV

BS/CS +BCAS

USB2.0/1394/PCMCIA


Product Roadmap

Component

FPGA

Card Chipset

STB Chipset

DTV Chipset (TV Set)

Tuner/Chip Tuner

Software

Firmware/System (STB/IA)


Why Digital TV?

Quality

Bandwidth

Function

New Application

• Better Quality

• Lower Noise

• Anti-Interfere

• Smaller Bandwidth (Compression)

• Support Active Scrambling

• Forward Error Correction

• Support Bi-direction Application

• Interactive


New Application from Digital TV

Electronic Program

Guide (EPG)

T-Commerce

Enhance

Broadcasting

Interactive

Advertising

Video On Demand

(VOD) Internet over TV

Source: GenStar, Wink Communication, TiVo & Worldgate



Electronic Program Guide (EPG)

EPG provides a complete

selection of entertainment

information, including reviews,

previews, and news highlights.

If you want to see the latest

information , you just click of a

button, the application system

will be automated links to the

content provider’s database and

update the information.



Interactive Advertising

Interactive advertising

solution extracts greater

value from television

advertising. Television

viewers can click on an ad

to request more information

regarding a specific product

or order a sample.



Enhance Broadcasting

This application allows

you to choose a location,

then view details about

the latest of weather

will show up.



T-Commerce

With digital networks, the

delivery of interactive

service and content

packing will be secured.

You can make “Home

Shopping”, “Home

Banking” or more

commerce with a simple

click.



Video On Demand (VOD)

Video On Demand (VOD)

programs are video sessions

that subscribers can order when

they want. These programs

may be purchased impulsively,

in systems with two way

connectively, to give viewers

tremendous control over their

viewing.



Internet over TV

Internet browsing, e-mail,

and e-commerce can be

done on TV, not only by

your PC.



•Home Banking

•TV Gambling\Betting

•Pay TV

•Interactive Sports

•Interactive Booking

•Interactive Voting

Other applications

Source: Direct TV


Types of Digital TV

Broadcasting Type System Area

Satellite DVB-S

BS-Digital

DSS

Worldwide

Japan

N. America

Cable DVB-C

OPEN TV

Worldwide

N. America

Terrestrial DVB-T

ATSC

ISDB-T

Worldwide

N. America

Japan


DVB Standard

Type Usage Modulation Receiving Frequency Encoding

DVB-S Satellite

QPSK 950MHz~2150MHz MPEG-II

DVB-C Cable

QAM 50MHz~860MHz MPEG-II

DVB-T Terrestrial COFDM 50MHZ~860MHz MPEG-II


Source: DVB


Digital TV Market Size – USA

Year End 1997 1998 1999 2000

Digital Sat. 6.30 10.10 16.40 23.10

Digital Cable 0.00 0.80 3.30 6.90

Digital Terr. 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.60

Total 6.30 10.90 19.70 30.60

Unit: Million Household

Source:ING Barings & IDC


Terrestrial Broadcasting Coverage- USA

201 Stations in 67 markets serve 69.0% of US TV households

Source: Decisionmark Corp.


Digital TV Market Size – Europe

Year End 1997 1998 1999 2000

Digital Sat. 1.94 3.58 7.67 12.69

Digital Cable 0.09 0.42 1.10 2.81

Digital Terr. 0.00 0.00 0.70 1.18

Total 2.03 4.00 9.47 16.68


Source: Société Européenne des Satellites S.A.

Market Information Group


Country TV Households (mill.) Satellite Country TV Households (mill) Satellite

Austria 3.2 45.2% Lithuania 1.24 3.6%

Belarus 3.54 1.8% Luxembourg 0.16 19.4%

Belgium 4.74 4.6% Netherlands 6.6 4.9%

Bulgaria 2.66 5.8% Norway 1.97 27.0%

Croatia 1.52 31.2% Poland 12.29 20.0%

Czech

Republic 3.95 14.4% Portugal 3.12 9.3%

Denmark 2.35 23.4% Romania 7.03 4.6%

Estonia 0.52 17.9% Slovak Republic 1.83 32.4%

Finland 2.26 10.2% Slovenia 0.62 19.1%

France 21.52 20.0% Spain 11.83 15.6%

Germany 36.13 35.7% Sweden 4.03 25.9%

Hungary 3.76 19.3% Switzerland 3.03 19.9%

Ireland 1.22 10.4% Ukraine 18.59 0.7%

Italy 20.66 11.4% UK 24.28 21.8%

Total 108.75 Latvia 0.72 12.5%

Satellite Subscribers in Europe


DTV Market Forecasting


Source:IDC

Digital TV Global Installment

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

Digital Terr. 1.93 4.59 8.79 15.03 23.15

Digital Cable 30.36 49.61 70.27 91.99 113.48

Digital Sat. 26.48 43.87 64.84 87.58 110.09

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004


Development in Digital TV Market

Nation Transmission Period Fully Digitalized

USA 2001 ~ 2006 2006

UK 2006 ~ 2010 2010

Japan 2006 ~ 2010 2010

Taiwan 2001 ~ 2006 2006

China 2001 ~ 2005 2005

Conversion of Terrestrial Broadcasting


DTV System Layers

Picture & Sound Layer

Compression Layer

Transport Layer

Transmission Layer

MPEG-2 packets

MPEG-2 video and Dolby AC-3 compression

syntax

Multiple Picture

Formats

5.1 Channel

Sound

Multiple Picture

Formats

5.1 Channel

Sound

6 MHz

8-VSB

Video packet Video packet Audio packet Aux data

Data Headers

Motion Vectors

Chroma and Luma DCT Coefficients

Variable Length Codes

...layered system with header/descriptors provides flexibility...

Flexible delivery of data

and future extensability

Flexible delivery of data

and future extensability

19.4 Mbps

Packet Headers

L R

LS RS LFE

C


DTV Transmission System

MPEG-2

Encoder

Video (one of

18 formats)

MPEG-2

Encoder

Audio (up to

5.1 channels)

MPEG-2

Bitstream

AC-3

Bitstream Trans-

port

Mux

Program and

System Information

Protocol

SP

Transport

Stream

(3 - 18 Mb/s)

Data

SP

Transport

Stream

• • • MP

Trans-

port

Mux PAT: Program

Association Table

PMT: Program Map Table

SP: Single Program

MP: Multi Program

MP

Transport

Stream

(19.4 Mb/s)

Channel

Coder

&

8-VSB

Modulator

DTV

Transmitter

Single-Program Encoder

PAT

PMT


Transport

Stream

(19.4 Mb/s)

DTV Decoder

MPEG-2

Decoder

Video

Audio

Decoder

Audio

MPEG-2

Bitstream

MPEG-2

Bitstream

Program Guide

Database

Single-Program Decoder

8-VSB

Demod-

ulator

DTV

Tuner

Physical

Channel

Select

Clock Recovery

and A/V

Synchronization PCR’s

Program

Select

Time

Stamps

Display

Processing

Program Select

(from User)

Trans-

port

Demux


MPEG-2 Video Decoding Process

MPEG-2 Bit stream

Parsing

DCT Coeffs

VLD Inv. Scan

Inv. Quant IDCT

Zig-Zag Scan Mode

Quant Scale Factor & Quant Matrices

Motion

Vectors

VLD

Vector Predictors

Dual-Prime Arithmetic

Scaling for chroma

Frame store Addressing

Field/Frame Prediction Selection Frame Stores

Half-Pel Prediction

Filtering

Combine Predictions

Half-Pel Info

Sat. Decoded Pixels

NOTE: This is a simplified, high-level functional diagram that integrates several separate diagrams in the MPEG-2 Video Spec (ISO/IEC 13818-2).

MPEG

Video

Layers

Sequence (Display Order)

GOP (Display Order,

N=12, M=3)

Picture

Slice

Macro Block

Y Cr

Cb

4 5 0 1

2 3 Y Blocks Cr Block Cb Block

B B B B B B B B I P P P

Note:

Y = Luma

Cr = Red-Y

Cb = Blue-Y


• Coding structure consists of several well-defined layers with header and data fields. Important syntax elements in each layer:

Sequence Picture Size, Frame Rate Bit Rate, Buffering Size Downloadable Quant Matrices GOP* Random Access Unit SMPTE Time-Code Picture Buffer Fullness, Temporal Reference, Picture Type (I, P, or B), Quant Matrices (in MPEG-2) Slice Intra-frame addressing information Coding re-initialization (error resilience) Macro block Basic coding structure; Basic unit of Motion

Compensation and quantization Block (8x8) DCT coefficients

MPEG Video Layers (content)

*optional in MPEG-2


DTV Controller IC


DTV-20021 Architecture


DTV-20022 Architecture


Package （PQFP 160）


Specification

* 0.35um Process Technology

* 32Bits RISC

* DMA(Direct Memory Access)

* 32 Route ways PID Data Pick_up

* Hardware IP Section Pick_up

* PCI- 33 V2.2

* PCMCIA 16 Bits

* DVB (EN301 192 V1.1.1)

* CCIR 656 Converter


PCI Mode


PCI Mode with CI / CA


Combo Card with VGA


USB BOX


Solutions for DTV Receiving

• DTV Decoder Box + Display set

(PDP,LCD-TFT, CRT…)

• Digital Television Set

• Analog Television

+ Digital Set Top Box (Converter)

• PC + DST Card


Products

STB , IA or Home Machine

PCI Add-on Card Or Module

Digital Tuner

DTV Controller IC


Product Series

DVB S/C/T FTA DVB S/C CI DVB-T + Analog

External Box

(USB 2.0/ IEEE 1394) X86 IA BOX PC STB (Linux /CE)

IP Broadcasting Internet Link

Bi-directional

HDTV DSS/ATSC/BSD

MPEG4

DVB S/C/T Tuner CI Controller Decrambler IC

DTV Card Series

DTV IA Box Series

DTV Components Series

Special function support


Key Functions

• Digital TV and Radio Program Receiving

• Electronic Program Guide (EPG)

• Real Time Digital Video Recording (DVR)

• Time Shifting Function

• Program Preview and Recording Presetting

• Channel, Transponder, Satellite Auto Scan

• Viewing and Recording different Channels simultaneously


Supporting Operation Systems


RF

Front

End

DTV Solution Architecture

Satellite

Cable

Terrestrial

Demodulator

FEC

PCI Bus

USB 2.0

IEEE 1394

CPU

Hard Disk

PC or

STB

Memory

Graphic

Processor

Sound

Card

Video

Output

Audio

Output

CI/CA

Smart Card

Reader

Modulator

ADSL

ISDN

PSDN

QAM

DATA

Transport Stream

Option Parts

Demultiplexing

Data Splitting

MPEG II Decoding


Broadcasting Operators’ Concerns

Cost

Support

Functions

Upgrade

Enabling

Broadcasting operators’ concerns over DSTB are:

What’s the cost of DSTB

and amount subsidized?

How many functions

can the DSTB

support and new

APRU for each

services?

Can the DSTB be

easily upgrade to

support new

services?


Comparison with other DTV Cards (FTA)

Company Model Name Decoding

Engine Street Price

DST-001 Software US$99

Sky2PC Hardware US$399

HDTV Hardware US$399

Satellite

Express Hardware US$250


Comparison with other DTV Cards

US$15

US$10

US$2

US$2

US$2

US$2

Total saving

US$33

Product Layout of PentaMedia’s PTVisionCI

Source: Pentamedia


Core Technology

Hardware ASIC

FPGA

RF

Video

Process

Encoder/

Decoder

Decompress

Compress

Integration


Technology we owned

Video Format Transfer

IP Data Process

Software De-Multiplexing

Software Data Splitting

Video Processing

Compress & Decompress

MPEG II Encoder / Decoder

MPEG 4 Encoder / Decoder

ASIC & FPGA

32 Bit Digital TV Controller

CI Controller (PCMCIA Interface)

CA Controller (Descrambler)

Real Time Recorder

Compress Format Transfer


Technology we owned

Software -Descrambler

CI and CA Decoder (TBA)

Software - Decrypt

Encoder & Decoder

RF & Demodulating

QPSK / QAM / OFDM

DVB-S, DVB-C, DVB-T Tuner

Hardware

DTV - FTA

DTV- CI

DTV - USB


Technology Lead Time

Video Process

Data Compress

Encoding/

Decoding

RF

Hardware

Design

IC Design

Software

Developing

3 to 6 months

Knowledge

Accumulating Design

6 to 9 months 3 to 6 months

Total Lead Time of 1 to 1.5 year

Testing &

Debug

Testing


Organization Chart (July. 2001)

Administration

(5)

Board of Directors

Engineering

(5)

Marketing

& Sales(10)

Manufacturing

(5)

R & D

(45)

GM & CEO


R&D Team

Team I

Team II Team III

Driver & Software

• Low level driver

• Interface driver

• UI / Applications

• Microsoft Windows

series OS, including

WinCE

• IP /Internet /browser

Firmware & ES code

• Drivers/applications

for Linux

• CI /CA Interface

• DSTB Solutions

• Middleware

• MCU Code

Hardware & ASIC

• FPGA & PLD

• IC Design (Front-End)

• RF Tuner/Modulation

• PCB layout & H/W

• Testing


Strategy

R & D Focus

TwinHan Technology invests over 20% revenue and 70% human resource on

research and development every year to ensure its technology advantage

Manufacturing Partner

TwinHan Technology teams up with professional manufactures, the top quality

Taiwan/China’s EMS factories to produce its products

Time-to-market Solution

“Time to Market” is TwinHan Technology’s main marketing strategy as its

reputable R&D team can always come out with the most advanced solutions


Leading Technology

& Completed R&D

Ability

Summary

Booming Digital

Vision Market

China DTV

Spec & Market

R&D & Marketing

Focus Strategy


ATA 33/66/100

CF

Card

IA System Block Diagram

Joystick

Video

Decoder

PC133 SDRAM Pri CRT

RGB

DFP

TV

2nd CRT

V/out

LPC

S/IO

AC’97

Codec

AC’97

AMR

V.90 Modem x86 CPU

DVD

Accelerator

IA

Board

Consumer Digital Audio I/F

SmartCard

PCI

USB

LPT

Flash ROM

KB / MS

VIP

CIR

Floppy

Memory

Stick


Home Gateway Examples

• SOC (CPU/CHIP)

• DVD acceleration

• HDD

• Memory Stick

• SmartCard

• Audio / Video Out

• Modem

Video

Out

Display

device

CA/CI

Payment

Gateway

1394/usb

HomeRF/

Bluetooth

Home

Device

Tuner

Cable

Content

Provider

LAN/

Modem

ISP


OS

(ASIC)

Middle Ware

ISP 和信東森

訂票商家銀行

雙漢

DTV

CA/CI

東元宏碁

SiS

VIA

Linux

CE

健保卡

接收 Box

SOC

H/W

F/W

S/W

AP

Smart Card

交易平台

Security

發射端

Hughes /Sky Stream

Open TV /Direct TV

Payment

Gateway

產業架構圖 (Taiwan Example)


NDS

Open TV

Liberate

Mind port

Power TV

Diva System

ICTV

TV Guide

WINK

World gate

charter Communication

Adelphia

COX

Microsoft MIH

Comcast

NBC

News Corp. Liberty Media

AOL Time Warner

SA

GI

Intertainer

ACTV

Head-end system

Operating system

Application

Strategic Investor

Documents

TwinHan Technology Co