Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: NXP Semiconductors | Subject: SAA7231 PCTV solutions
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 May 2008
Consumer tech companies choose PCTV
solution
As small as half a mini-Express Card form-factor, the NXP SAA7231 is a single-chip hybrid solution that supports worldwide broadcast standards.
NXP Semiconductors' SAA7231 hybrid PCTV solutions are the preferred choice of consumer technology manufacturers, including Asus, AVerMedia, Creatix, Medion and Pegatron Each of these companies is delivering NXP-based PCTV products, including portable computers, laptops, living room PCs and PCTV cards
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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As small as half a mini-Express Card form-factor, the NXP SAA7231 is a single-chip hybrid solution that supports worldwide broadcast standards, making it ideal for manufacturers seeking to target different geographical markets with PCTV-enabled products.
The SAA7231 family of PCTV solutions includes 12 variants to offer the maximum flexibility in design and integration.
Incorporating a channel decoder for DVB-S/T, a video decoder for all analogue standards, a stereo audio broadcast decoder with a stereo base band inputs and a PCI/PCIe interface, the NXP SAA7231 family offers high integration, enabling developers to achieve significant design and bills-of-material (BOM) cost reduction.
Sophisticated power management capabilities ensure ultra-low power consumption for uninterrupted streaming of AV content, enabling extended playback time on portable devices.
Yung-Chien Li, Analyst at Topology Research Institute said "Affordability, high quality, low power and multistandard compliance are essentials for consumers to enjoy the PCTV viewing experience and NXP's SAA7231 family of solutions allows manufacturers to offer these benefits on their devices".
"The SAA7231 solution family supports all the analogue standards and DVB-S/T, which are the most widely adopted digital broadcast standards in the world and can be easily extended for ISDB and ATSC compliance with reserved interfaces", according to Martin Maloney, Marketing Director for PC systems, Home business unit, NXP Semiconductors.
The NXP SAA7231 family features a full-function built-in MCE compliance IR and can achieve reception/ transmission/learning/wake-up without any external hardware.
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