Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Frontier Silicon
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 September 2006
Alliance aims for multistandard reference
Frontier Silicon and Silicon and Software Systems (S3) have announced a strategic collaboration to develop a reference turnkey solution for multistandard mobile DTV
Frontier Silicon and Silicon and Software Systems (S3) have announced a strategic collaboration to develop a reference turnkey solution for multistandard mobile DTV, enabling handset manufacturers to rapidly deploy 'world ready' mobile devices based on both DVB-H and T-DMB standards. This joint initiative will offer customers Frontier Silicon's multi-standard digital baseband processor and RF tuner chips with S3's proven onHandTV mobile DTV client software.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 September 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Matthew Hatch VP Marketing and Business Development of Frontier said: 'The mobile TV market is fragmented across many different standards'.
'The ability to address multiple standards in the same handset is increasingly becoming a requirement'.
'We chose S3 because they are the leading provider of DVB-H based mobile solutions and because together we provide handset manufacturers with a complete optimised multistandard system from the antenna through to the software application'.
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'This removes the need to separately source various components that would still require integration effort and system optimisation by our customers'.
John Maguire, General Manager, mobile DTV products, S3, added: 'Frontier Silicon's market leading position in T-DMB and DAB made them a natural choice for this collaboration'.
'S3 is committed to offering multistandard client solutions and aligning ourselves with key market players in the mobile DTV ecosystem, such as Frontier'.
'By closely defining a clear interface between our middleware and the front-end driver software, we have been able to take advantage of the significant hardware acceleration available on the Frontier Silicon chipset and combine it with the flexibility and performance of the onHandTV software stack'.
Frontier Silicon is already supplying mobile TV chipsets into the handset market, shipping over a million ICs into Korea, China and Germany; the company's DSP-based approach to its baseband provides the ability to partition the total multi-standard system solution optimally between host and baseband - removing any inefficiencies and shortcomings required of hardwired approaches.
Since 2004, onHandTV has delivered the key protocol stacks, middleware and applications required to rapidly deploy TV on mobile products compliant with emerging DVB-H standards.
This multi-standard solution adds T-DMB to the growing portfolio of emerging commercial networks supported by S3's unique Operator Adaptation Package (OAP) architecture.
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