Frontier Silicon has teamed up with Irish software house Silicon & Software Systems (S3) to develop a tuner/receiver reference design for multi-standard mobile TV.
The aim is to support both DVB-H and T-DMB standards with multi-standard digital baseband processor and RF tuner chips and mobile DTV client software.
“The mobile TV market is fragmented across many different standards. The ability to address multiple standards in the same handset is increasingly becoming a requirement. We chose S3 because they are the leading provider of DVB-H based mobile solutions and because together we provide handset manufacturers with a complete optimised multi-standard system from the antenna through to the software application,” said Matthew Hatch v-p marketing and business development of Frontier Silicon.
According to John Maguire, general manager, mobile DTV products, S3: “By closely defining a clear interface between our middleware and the front-end driver software, we have been able to take advantage of the significant hardware acceleration available on the Frontier Silicon chipset.”
S3 has also partnered with Irdeto, the specialist in content security for digital TV, IPTV and mobile, to supply an integrated end-to-end conditional access (CA) solution for mobile TV. S3 has integrated Irdeto's Mobile Broadcast CA solution with its onHandTV mobile DTV software.
Frontier Silicon is already supplying mobile TV chipsets into the handset market, shipping over a million ICs into Korea, China and Germany.
It has recently announced its Paradiso FS1030 multi-standard digital TV baseband IC, designed specifically for receiving mobile TV, video, audio and data services over multiple standards.
The chip supports DVB-H, DVB-T, T-DMB, DAB-IP and enhanced packet mode DAB.