Lucent announces new front-end chip................................
Lucent Technologies Launches First Digital Television -DTV- Receiver Chip for US Market
Business Wire - November 12, 1997 15:27
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BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 1997--Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group announced today the first single-chip receiver for the North American digital television (DTV) standard. DTV is a new technology that will allow the broadcast industry to transmit a mix of crisp digital video, CD-quality audio and data to home TVs, personal computers (PCs), set-top boxes and other digital appliances. The AV8100 is a complete system on a chip that can receive terrestrial broadcasts of high definition television (HDTV), multichannel standard definition television (SDTV), and broadcast data. It is the first commercially-available single-chip vestigial side-band (VSB) receiver compliant with the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standard. VSB is the North American modulation standard for TV broadcasting. "Our new receiver chip will help bring about a new generation of DTV-based products and services," said Ahmed Nawaz, vice president of network communications ICs at Lucent's Microelectronics Group. "Consumers will be able to receive new types of digital broadcast services such as web casting, stock price updates, software distribution and other interactive media thanks to enabling devices like ours." The AV8100 is part of a high-definition television (HDTV) receiver chip set Lucent and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) have been jointly developing. Mitsubishi is now testing the chip for implementation into its front-end RF tuner and other products. "For several months, we've been verifying the ability of the AV8100 algorithms, programmed on Lucent test boards, to receive ATSC signals over the air," said Tommy Poon, senior vice president of Mitsubishi Electric ITA Advanced Television Laboratories. "Those experiments have been very successful and now we've started testing the chip itself in conjunction with Mitsubishi's RF tuner system and video and au dio decoder and display processor components." The AV8100 chip interfaces with a variety of RF tuner front-ends to receive incoming DTV signals from terrestrial broadcast stations. In addition, it performs three core VSB reception functions on a single chip. This integration reduces power consumption, system cost, component count and board space. Capable of receiving all 18 of the ATSC formats including HDTV as well as multi-channel SDTV and data broadcasts, the AV8100 receives digital signals at rates of up to 19.39 Mbits/sec. The AV8100 is available in a 160-pin, plastic quad flat pack and is manufactured in advanced 0.35-micron, 3.3-volt, CMOS process technology for high performance and low power dissipation. Lucent has begun sampling the chip to beta-site customers and will start commercial sampling early in 1998. Volume production will begin within the second quarter of 1998 and is expected to fuel the availability of consumer-based DTV products by the fall of 1998. Lucent's rich history in digital video technology includes 25 years of research and development from Bell Labs. The company provides expertise in digital communication applications that includes encoders, receivers and other integrated circuits (ICs) that link PCs to digital networks. Recently, Lucent's Bell Labs and Microelectronics Group received an Emmy Award for their pioneering work in MPEG digital compression and other high-definition television work under the HDTV Grand Alliance. This August, Lucent joined Compaq, Microsoft, and Intel as part of the DTV Team to help accelerate the deployment of DTV technology for PCs and television sets. Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit our web site at lucent.com. Lucent's Microelectronics Group designs and manufactures integrated circuits, and optoelectronic components for the computer and communications industries. More information about the Microelectronics Group's business is available from its web site at www.lucent.com/micro.
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