PortalPlayer

PortalPlayer is a fabless semiconductor company that supplies system-on-a-chip semiconductors, firmware and software for personal media players. The company handles semiconductor design and firmware development, while subcontracting the actual semiconductor manufacturing to merchant foundries. On January 5, 2007, NVIDIA Corporation announced that it had acquired PortalPlayer, Inc. for about $357 million. [ [http://www.nvidia.com/object/portalplayer_acquisition.html NVIDIA acquires PortalPlayer] ] .

Products

PortalPlayer 5002

Used by the following devices:
*iPod: Generations 1, 2 and 3 [http://www.ipodlinux.org/PP5002] [http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PortalPlayer]

PortalPlayer 5003

System-on-a-chip containing two ARM7 CPU cores, each running at up to 90 MHz.

Used by the following devices:
* Rio Karma [http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/ogg-on-ipod-why-the-ipod-may-not-have-the-horsepower-for-ogg-015607.php]

PortalPlayer 5020

System-on-a-chip containing two ARM CPU cores, each running at 75 MHz.

Used by the following devices:
*iPod: Generation 4, iPod Photo, and first generation iPod Mini [http://www.ipodlinux.org/PP5020] [http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PortalPlayer]
* Philips HDD100/120 (Unconfirmed, file-format and specs match YH-925 below)
* [http://en.europe.eliohome.com/product_m310_01.html Tatung Elio M310] (system/pp5020.mi4 contains the string "PP5020AF-05.11-TG01-11.40-TG01-11.40-DT" and "Copyright(c) 1999 - 2003 PortalPlayer, Inc.")
* Virgin player 5GB (According to [http://www.virginelectronics.com/faq-player_5gb.htm] )
* [http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/download/dld/spt_dld_detail.php?UID=622&kind=6 MSI Megaplayer 540] , has firmware system/pp5020.mi4 including "PP5020AF..." string, in Germany it has been sold as Medion MD81034 by ALDI
* iriver H10, all variations, including the 5GB, 6GB, and 20GB models
* Edirol R-1 (Unconfirmed rumor on what chip but unit displays "Powered by PortalPlay Inc. 1999-2004"
* M-AUDIO Microtrack ver.1 " string pp5020d-tf"

PortalPlayer 5021C-TDF

Used by the following devices:
*iPod: First generation iPod Nano [http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/4] and fifth generation iPod with video

PortalPlayer 5022

Used by the following devices:
*iPod: Second generation iPod Mini [http://www.ipodlinux.org/PP5022] [http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PortalPlayer]
*Philips: GoGear HDD1630/HDD6320/HDD6330 > PP 5022 + codec Wolfson WM8731L [http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GoGearHDD6330]

PortalPlayer 5024

The newest PortalPlayer audio chipset, which can be currently found on players.

Used by the following devices:
* Sandisk Sansa e200 series [http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2006/03/sandisk-sansa-e200-series-review.php]

References

External links

* [http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PortalPlayer An overview of the different PortalPlayer chips]
* [http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/mi4.html mi4 file format] - the file format of the firmware that almost all (non-iPod) Portalplayer models use