Product category: Reference Designs
News Release from: Frontier Silicon | Subject: T-DMB reference design
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 October 2005
Reference design is ready for T-DMB
Frontier Silicon has combined with C and S Technology to develop a complete system-level reference design for Korean terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting
Frontier Silicon has combined with C and S Technology, South Korea's leading supplier of semiconductors for multimedia broadcasting and communications, to develop a complete system-level reference design for Korean terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB). The solution is initially developed for automotive applications in which consumers can receive digital broadcast services while on the move, but will also provide mobile handset manufacturers with a working design on which they can rapidly develop and launch mobile handsets both for the Korean market as well as for other regions intending to launch T-DMB broadcast services.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 October 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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KN Kim, President of Frontier Silicon Korea said: 'The demonstration of this solution shows that our chipset CAN interface with leading video applications processors to implement a full T-DMB solution, for both automotive environments and mobile handsets'.
'Our work with the video processor from C and S Technology is just the first step in developing a choice of solutions for our customers to build their products on'.
SeungMo Seo, CEO of C and S Technology, added: 'We welcome the interface with Kino and Apollo from Frontier Silicon which make up a proven T-DMB implementation'.
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'We are confident that the combination of this with our Neptune chip will result in another successful T-DMB solution'.
The solution, which was shown at the opening of Frontier Silicon's office in Seoul, is based on the company's Apollo silicon RF tuner and Kino T-DMB baseband processor, interfaced with the Neptune multimedia processor from C and S Technology.
Neptune is a single-chip multimedia processor designed to handle video and audio decoding for T-DMB and S-DMB (Korean satellite digital multimedia broadcasting), and it also features a hard-wired H.264 video decoder.
Apollo is the smallest RF tuner for T-DMB currently available, and features power consumption that is almost one-quarter of competing receivers.
The small size and low power consumption make it ideal for designing into mobile handsets intended for T-DMB (digital video broadcasting) products.
The Kino chip provides a dedicated hardware baseband solution for T-DMB which is fully programmable using software.
This provides mobile TV handset manufacturers with maximum flexibility for configuring their products and the options that they can provide to their customers.
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