Receiver Chip brings TV to small mobile phones.
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Multi-mode Kino 2 supports all T-DMB variants as well as DAB and DAB-IP in single chip. When combined with multi-band capability of Apollo silicon tuner, handset vendors can produce mobile TV-featured devices that are compatible with all T-DMB markets worldwide. Kino 2 also enables products in non-cellular markets, bringing mobile TV and DAB into any gadget with display and speaker, including pocket TVs, USB dongles, personal media players, and notebook computers.
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Frontier Silicon: TV Just Got Smaller!
LONDON, February 9 - At 3GSM Frontier Silicon, the market leader in solutions for digital radio and mobile TV, is launching their latest chip, Kino 2, bringing TV to smaller phones with longer battery life and lower cost. Kino 2 is the next step in the company's mobile TV roadmap already in use in TV enabled mobile phones from Samsung
Kino 2 is the second generation solution for T-DMB mobile TV from Frontier Silicon. Kino is the only available T-DMB receiver with the flexibility to take care of the diverse requirements of networks worldwide.
Kino 1 was the first T-DMB baseband to ship into commercially available handsets and is now successfully shipping in the Samsung B2300 which is the top selling T-DMB mobile phone in Korea, and later this year it will be used in products for mobile TV launches in Germany, China, India and Norway.
SMALLER, LONGER BATTERY LIFE, CHEAPER AND DIGITAL RADIO
- Kino 2 delivers significant reductions in size, power consumption and cost compared to earlier generations of T-DMB solutions. It slashes power consumption in half resulting in longer battery life; reduces overall system cost and reduces system size by more than 40%, enabling mobile TV in smaller, slimmer phones.
- Kino 2 is a true multi-mode device with built in flexibility through software customization, supporting all T-DMB variants as well as DAB and DAB-IP in a single chip. The flexibility offered by Kino 2 enables advanced features such as conditional access and data services to be implemented in software. When combined with the multi-band capability of the Apollo silicon tuner, handset vendors can produce mobile TV featured devices that are compatible with the requirements of all T-DMB markets worldwide.
- Kino 2 provides full support for DAB Digital Radio. With Kino 2 a mobile phone manufacture is able to offer consumers a product which can be used to enjoy high quality TV and radio services.
- The Kino architecture has been successfully integrated with a media processor from Texas Instruments in mass production mobile phones and it has now been integrated in a complete T-DMB module with the Nomadik media processor from STMicroelectronics. These platforms benefit mobile TV manufacturers by reducing development time and cost.
MOBILE TV ON AN EXCITING NEW WAVE OF POCKET SIZED GADGETS
Kino 2 also enables new types of products in non cellular markets, bringing mobile TV and DAB into any gadget with any display and a speaker. Such products could be pocket TVs, USB dongles, Personal Media Players, Notebook computers, Portable gaming devices and in-car media devices.
PROVEN TECHNOLOGY
Anthony Sethill, Frontier Silicon CEO adds "The Kino product line is based on proven technology that has already shipped in 3 million digital radio products worldwide. This experience de-risks T-DMB product development for our customers and gets them to production in the shortest possible time."
"Frontier Silicon is investing heavily to continually innovate in the mobile TV market enabling manufacturers to bring interesting and attractive features to mobile phones and other innovative consumer devices. Being able to offer the complete T-DMB chipset, RF, baseband and software, is the foundation for our strong roadmap of new mobile TV chipsets."
FRONTIER SILICON
Frontier Silicon is the biggest and most widely used provider of semiconductor solutions for digital Mobile TV and digital radio
Frontier Silicon uses MetaTM and UCCTM intellectual property from Imagination Technologies.
Contact Frontier Silicon: Katja Marcuslund, Head of Marketing, Tel: +44-7795-167-570, Email: Katja.marcuslund@frontier-silicon.com; Anthony Sethill, CEO, Tel: +44-(0)-1923-474200
