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Fresco, Entropic to develop silicon-based hybrid receivers
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 20:06 IST
Bangalore: Fresco Microchip, a fabless semiconductor company has partnered with Entropic Communications, a chip and software provider for home entertainment, to develop silicon-based hybrid receivers for televisions.
According to Fresco, the FM1150 can eliminate many discrete elements including SAW (surface acoustic wave) filters and amplifiers. The FM1150 has a flexible architecture that is compatible with both silicon tuners as well as traditional tuners. "By combining the performance of Fresco's FM1150 analog demodulator with Entropic's EN4020 silicon tuner, we are delivering a highly integrated solution that offers significant system cost savings and eliminates the traditional tradeoffs associated with discrete tuner and analog demodulator implementations," said Mike Gittings, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Fresco.
Entropic's EN4020 multimode silicon tuner supports multiple standards and offers hybrid functionality in an integrated CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) design. "The FM1150 and EN4020 complement one another well and address the needs of the hybrid television market," said Vinay Gokhale, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Entropic.
