Chips improve digital TV quality

The SMS1100 MDTV receiver chips improve receiver performance, richness of features, power consumption and global coverage.

Siano Mobile Silicon has released the SMS1100 series of Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) receiver chips.

Following successful field trials in Europe, Japan and Korea, the SMS1100 improves receiver performance, richness of features, power consumption and global coverage.

The SMS1100 supports reception of ISDB-T TV signals, the broadcast standard of Brazil and Japan, in addition to Siano's existing portfolio of DVB-H, DVB-T, DAB, DAB-IP and T-DMB.

A new channel estimation engine in the chip improves sensitivity and mobility.

Field trials show that end users are able to watch mobile TV in garages and other indoor locations, or while riding the world's fastest trains such as France's TGV or Japan's Shinkansen (Bullet Train), or whilst driving on Germany's Autobahn highway.

Siano has also broken its own world record in low power consumption.

The SMS1100 consumes less than 165mW (tuner and baseband combined) when receiving high definition TV (HDTV) over DVB-T broadcast.

This is 70% less than competing solutions.

"2008 will witness the expansion of mobile TV beyond Japan, Korea and Italy into most of Europe, South East Asia, China and Brazil", said Alon Ironi, Siano's CEO.

"At the same time, DVB-T technology, already broadcasted in over 40 countries worldwide, is now available on-the-go, with many HDTV channels set to be introduced".

"Whilst our previous SMS1000 chip family enabled the very first deployments of mobile TV, the new SMS1100 will now make mobile TV accessible everywhere, in crystal-clear quality - this product is the locomotive that will pull the entire industry and unleash the huge potential of the mobile TV market" Ironi said.

Similar to Siano's previous generation, the SMS1100 integrates both RF tuner and demodulator (baseband) and eliminates the need for any active external components.

The SMS1100 family can be tailored for several different specific markets and applications.

For example, the SMS1150 addresses global mobile TV notebooks, with a high-speed USB 2.0 interface and full MRC diversity support, while the SMS1130 targets DVB-H mobile phones.

All members of the SMS1100 family are delivered in the same BGA package, 6.2 x 6.5 x 1mm in size, with 131 pins.

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