I don't work for Atmel. I am interested in knowing how they did it. (I am using Xilinx at this time - a few very expensive one.)
Since it is from a fpga company, I wonder if it use one of those FPGA 2 ASIC conversion process to get such low cost price pointer for such complex chip.
I wonder if has anyone done similar complex SOC chip with xilinx/altera?
.... The AT76C120 device supports high performance still-image and video decoding of media files encoded according to JPEG, MPEG4, MPEG1, Motion JPEG standards .... The AT76C120 is compatible with its predecessors, and is an integrated ARM7TDMI processor that controls the entire application and manages file-system, decoding and display functions. All necessary peripherals, including TV video output, USB, UART and SPI, and digital audio interfaces, have been integrated on the chip ....
-Tony