EW Daily News 23/02/2004 10:04:44 - 3GSM: Frontier Silicon works with Samsung on DAB mobile3GSM: Frontier Silicon works with Samsung on DAB mobile Richard Ball
Frontier Silicon has teamed up with Samsung Electro-Mechanics to develop a digital audio broadcasting (DAB) module aimed at mobile phones.
The module, measuring 38x30x2.5mm, includes the DAB baseband, RF front end and embedded memory. The module operates as a slave to the main system processor, communicating by serial link.
We are seeing increasing interest from mobile phone manufacturers in the integration of DAB, both for audio and data applications said C.K. Nam, manager of the broadcast systems team at Samsung Electro-Mechanics. By cooperating with Frontier Silicon we have been able to provide our customers with a small and low powered module that can be used to realise this requirement.
Frontier Silicon’s Chorus processor uses DAB technology developed by Imagination Technologies and the multi-threaded Meta digital signal processor.
Mass production of the module is expected in the third quarter of 2004.