Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Frontier Silicon | Subject: Kino 3
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 June 2005
Chipset to address
multiple MDTV standards
Kino 3 is a new multistandard and multiband MDTV chipset currently being developed by Frontier Silicon
Kino 3 is a new multistandard and multiband MDTV chipset currently being developed by Frontier Silicon to support both Korean and European digital multimedia broadcasts (DMB) as well as the DVB-H standard for mobile TV reception. This will be world's first device to combine a silicon tuner with broad tuning range and a baseband processor using software defined radio techniques to address multiple MDTV reception standards - and Kino 3 will compete in terms of cost, size and power consumption with devices that just support a single standard.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 June 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Speaking at this week's Broadcast Asia Conference in Singapore, Anthony Sethill, CEO of Frontier Silicon, said: 'We strongly believe that regulatory, spectrum allocation and installed infrastructure issues could considerably slow down the deployment of MDTV worldwide'.
'With our experience in developing pioneering semiconductor solutions for digital broadcasting, we recognised this as a company early on and deployed resources to develop multistandard ICs'.
'Our aim is therefore to remove this barrier by quickly introducing a solution, and we are on course to introduce our Kino 3 solution in 2006'.
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Single chip DVB-H for small devices
Frontier Silicon has announced a single-chip IC (integrated circuit) for DVB-H broadcast mobile digital TV (MDTV), enabling longer battery life, smaller handset form factors and faster time-to-market
DMB is an extension of the Eureka 147 specification commonly known as DAB and used for digital radio broadcasts in much of Europe.
DVB-H has been developed as an extension to the existing DVB-T standard which is widely used across Europe for digital TV broadcasts.
Both DMB and DVB-H have been developed to provide the robust and high bandwidth data channels required to enable the reliable reception of digital video on handheld devices.
Commercial MDTV services based on DMB are expected to roll out in Korea during 2005 and in the UK and Germany in 2006.
Commercial services based on DVB-H will go live in USA during 2006 and parts of Europe will also adopt this standard during 2006 and 2007.
Sethill adds: 'With our innovative technology and business models we have already had a big impact on the audio broadcast market with over 70% of all DAB radios using our products'.
'We are now investing heavily in our multistandard development to ensure that we have a similar impact on the MDTV market'.
Details of Frontier Silicon's Kino 3 chipset will be announced in 2006.
In outline, it comprises a state-of-the-art multistandard baseband demodulator/decoder and multiband (Band II, III, IV, V and L-band) RF tuner IC, and incorporates integrated microcontroller and memory.
The extremely low power chipset is expected to consume less than 50mW in DVB-H channel mode.
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