System LSI Division
Samsung commands the second largest Semiconductor business in the world with a focus on digital and wireless technology in rapidly growing market segments like Digital TV/Set Top Box, VCD/DVD/MP3 Players, Smart Phones, and Wireless Handheld PDAs, apart from the established leadership in DRAMs.
System LSI, Korea specializes in the integration of processor cores, memory, high speed I/O interfaces and advanced peripherals on a single silicon chip to create standard and custom System-on-Chip (SOC) solutions for next generation mobile and home solution products. We combine our chip design experience, system expertise and established logic manufacturing processes with embedded and real time software design and development capabilities to provide product designers with complete solutions. This ranges from sub-micron fabrication process to Multiprocessor Software Architecture, Real-time Operating System, Device Drivers, Audio/Video processing, Protocols for Media processing, Networking and Interconnectivity.
System LSI Division (SLD) at SISO is a design center of System LSI, Korea. SLD is involved in development of software solutions for various SoCs being developed by the parent division. SLD shares the System LSI vision: Worldwide Leadership in Mobile and Home System-LSI solution. Towards achievement of this vision, SLD works very closely with the SoC R&D Centre and Business Units of System LSI on a shared roadmap basis. SLD organization structure reflects this commitment by one-to-one alignment with the System LSI Organization in Korea.
Home Platform Group focuses on creating platforms for Broadcast based Home Entertainment Electronics devices like High Definition Digital Televisions, Set Top Boxes, and Personal Video Recorders etc. built around the SoCs developed by the Home Solution Team of SoC R & D Centre. Mobile Platform Group works on designing and prototyping feature-rich SmartPhones built around the SoCs developed by the Mobile Solution Team of System LSI, Korea, running the embedded Operating Systems like MontaVista Linux, Windows CE, Pocket PC, Symbian and PalmOS. These SmartPhones are powerful Multimedia PDAs with real time video conferencing capability, featuring still camera and camcorder applications along with advanced 3D Gaming and wireless connectivity through GSM/GPRS/Edge/CDMA/WCDMA modems. Multimedia Lab is dedicated to developing reusable IPs for DSP and Multimedia Processing like Speech, Audio, Video, Image and 3D Graphics libraries etc. To ensure re-usability across different target platforms and user applications, it follows a ReUse Architecture for design and coding.
Media Platform Group works on the creation of storage media based consumer electronic products such as Portable Audio Players, VCD player, DVD Players and DVD Recorders with advanced features of recording and playback of digital multimedia content such as JPEG Images, Audio in MP3, WMA, AAC, Dolby Prologic and DTS formats, and Video in MPEG1/2/4 and WMV formats, irrespective of the storage media type Picture CD, Photo CD, Audio CD, Game CD, Video CD, DVDs or the solid state memory device (MMC, SD, Memory Sticks, CF card).