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News Release from: Afa Technologies | Subject: AF9100
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 May 2007
Mobile TV demodulator covers six
standards in one
The AF9100 is a six-in-one demodulator IC for multistandard mobile digital TV.
New from Afa Technologies, the AF9100 is a six-in-one demodulator IC for multistandard mobile digital TV With a COFDM design teams in both Silicon Valley and Taiwan, Afa has introduced three generations of high performance DVB-T demodulators since 2005
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The six-in-one demodulator is engineered to provide multiple standard solutions for both TV and audio across the world: DVB-H, DVB-T, T-DMB, DAB-IP, DAB/DAB+ and FM.
With multiple interfaces - SDIO, SPI, USB 2.0, I2S and TS - the AF9100 series provides cost effective and easy integration with cellphone basebands and multimedia processors.
Inheriting the field-proven high-speed mobile reception of the company's existing DVB-T demodulators, the AF9100 series boasts excellent Doppler performance.
Compared with similar solutions in the market, the patented memory management scheme greatly reduces the channel switching time to less than 20ms and enables multiple parallel services simultaneously such as multiple video and audio programmes, alarm, messaging and ESG.
In addition, ultrafast synchronisation ensures ultralow power consumption.
The AF9100 will be demonstrated in Afa's suite in the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Computex Taipei from 5th to 9th June 2007.
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