Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Frontier Silicon | Subject: Kino
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 February 2005
Digital TV baseband takes more onboard
Kino is a new digital baseband processor especially developed for mobile digital television
New from Frontier Silicon, Kino is a digital baseband processor especially developed for mobile digital television. The chip is the lowest power, smallest footprint solution for enabling terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) services in mobile handsets. Kino is a major step forward for mobile applications as it is a highly integrated system-on-chip which consumes less than 100mW of power and supports a full decoding rate over 1.8Mbit/s without the need for any external memory.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 February 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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To reduce the system cost, analogue functions such as the IF ADC, voltage controlled crystal oscillator (VCXO), power-on reset, and audio digital-to-analogue convertors are all integrated on the chip, as is the Reed Solomon decoder, which is implemented in hardware rather than software, thereby significantly reducing the power consumption.
The significance of the integration of all these functions is that the bill-of-materials cost is reduced by over a dollar, and PCB usage area is significantly reduced.
The benefit for mobile television is that content providers can be assured that handset cost will not be a deterrent to the uptake of their services, and that the handsets will not be excessively power hungry when running video and TV applications.
The new Kino chip from Frontier Silicon is unlike a general purpose DSP (digital signal processor) approach for T-DMB, in that it provides a dedicated hardware solution - based on the Meta processor core and Ensigma universal communication coprocessor intellectual property licensed from Imagination Technologies - which is fully programmable using software.
This provides mobile TV handset manufacturers with maximum flexibility for configuring their handsets and the options that they can provide to their customers.
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