Product category: Reference Designs
News Release from: Sony Europe - Semiconductor Division | Subject: DVB-Terrestrial and DVB-Satellite
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 May 2003
Reference design puts PowerPC in set top
boxes
A complete set-top box reference design platform for digital TV targets both terrestrial and satellite standards.
IBM Microelectronics and Sony Business Europe's Semiconductor and Devices Division have released a set-top box (STB) reference design platform for digital TV (DTV) that targets both terrestrial and satellite standards The "ready-to-go" design platform combines the two companies' core strengths in DTV, providing STB customers and software developers with a speedy, cost-competitive and lower risk route to product differentiation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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IBM and Sony believe that the solution can make it possible to reduce the time that a supplier needs to bring a product to the marketplace to under three months, with much reduced resource investment.
Current development times can be up to 12 months or more.
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