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News Release from: MediaPhy Corporation | Subject: MP2011 Solo
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 September 2007
CMOS offer global TV capability
The MP2011 Solo has a baseband architecture that enables low power consumption, offering power savings of more than 60%.
MediaPhy has released the MP2011 Solo, an all CMOS single die that offers global mobile TV capability covering DVB-H, Mobile DVB-T, ISDB-T 1-3-13 segment and T-DMB/DAB standards The MP2011 Solo has a baseband architecture that enables low power consumption, offering power savings of more than 60%
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Oct 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We have accomplished this with the MP2011 Solo", according to Terry Leeder, CEO and President of MediaPhy.
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"Offering multi-standard capability in a single die is a significant technology advancement".
"Achieving such dramatic power savings in tandem with high performance and multi-standard capability is something we believe will have a significant impact on the market".
"Chip suppliers that deliver superior mobile reception quality, particularly for nominally fixed technologies such as ISDB-T 13-seg and DVB-T, while offering low power dissipation have critical competitive advantages", said Joseph Byrne, a Linley group analyst and author of A Guide to Mobile TV Chips.
"A key technology in reducing power is single-chip integration, which also leads to lower cost".
"Cost in the long run will be a decisive advantage in this highly competitive market".
The MP2011 Solo is designed from the ground up with an eye on system-level designs.
Three primary design factors ensure it requires a minimal number of external components.
All blocks are on a single CMOS die, eliminating sub-block interfacing components.
The Zero-IF direct conversion radio architecture eliminates the need for bulky IF SAW filters.
The LNA, capacitors, inductors and all necessary memory blocks are integrated into the device to reduce the bill of materials (BOM) cost and enhance system performance.
Manufactured in 130nm RF CMOS process and 7x7mm package, the single-die monolithic design features a complex frequency-agile radio and configurable hardware engine-based architecture (CHE).
This baseband architecture allows a very low digital clock-speed as well as low always-on power.
The result of the chip's baseband design, alongside the direct conversion (Zero-IF) architecture of the tuner, is very low power consumption in all modes.
In DVB-H mode, the MP2011 Solo consumes only 20mW of power, ISDB-T 1-seg consumes 80mW, while power consumption in both DVB-T Mobile and ISDB-T 13-seg modes is only 120mW.
Byrne said "Adoption of mobile TV in Japan has been phenomenal".
"JEITA reports that 6.5 million 1Seg-enabled handsets--about one-fourth of all handsets--shipped in the first half of calendar 2007 in Japan".
"Shipments have grown at a 600% compound annual growth rate, putting the 1Seg-handset attach rate on track to achieve saturation by 2008".
"The Linley group estimates that Japan will be the single-largest mobile TV market through 2011".
The chip will sample to customers in October 2007 and is expected to go into volume production in the first quarter of 2008.
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