DVB
Microtune Introduces Breakthrough Receiver Chip Delivering Superior Performance, Cost and Sizeto Worldwide Digital TV Market
New RF-to-Baseband IC Delivers Uncompromised TV Receiver Performanceat Compelling Price Point New Chip Enables Manufacturers to Deploy a Smaller, Higher-Performance and More Cost-Effective Receiver in Global Designs for the Next Generation of Thinner, Lighter, Multi-Functional TVs
PLANO, Texas, Dec 10, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Microtune(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: TUNE) [...]
Indian startup tips SDR-based TV demodulation
EE Times reports that Saankhya Labs, a fabless chip startup based here, has announced its Universal TV demodulator IC based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) architecture, and targeted at World TV and PC-TV receiver markets.
Built on an ASSP (application specific signal processor) platform, the product named Pruthvi – is made up of programmable DSPs, and [...]
CrestaTech Introduces Universal Broadband Receiver Technology for Region Free PCTV
New CrestaTV Technology Significantly Lowers Notebook Development Costs and Design Time; Enables Mass Market PCTV Capability
SAN JOSE, CA, – CrestaTech™ plans to change the way people view TV on their PCs, whether they’re at home or on-the-go. CrestaTV™ Universal Broadband Receiver technology combines a programmable RF IC and software that will allow PCs to receive [...]
Using software modems to enable low-cost, converged wireless
Chet Babla of Mirics Semiconductor has published a technical paper on multistandard Broadcast receivers implemented with a Mirics FlexiTV RF front end plus x86 processing for the baseband.
They implemented this on a 2.6GHz dual core x86 processor. Benchmarking standard definition (SD) DVB-T required 25% of the CPU load. The media player decoding of the SD [...]
Imagination Technologies DVB-H White Paper
Imagination Technologies has published a white paper on TechOnline discussing the implementation of DVB-H on its Ensigma Universal Communications Coprocessor (UCC) mobile IP SDR platform.