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To: Stoctrash who wrote (36429)	10/2/1998 10:05:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

SFA and Broadcom in settop box deal............. semibiznews.com Broadcom, Scientific-Atlanta team in IC development for set-top box IRVINE, Calif.-- Broadcom Corp. and Scientific-Atlanta Inc. said they are collaborating in the development of next-generation ICs for advanced digital set-top boxes for cable television services. Under the partnership, Irvine-based Broadcom has agreed to supply a certain percentage of the new ICs to Scientific-Atlanta, which will use the chips in an advanced digital set-top box slated to become available to consumers in the year 2000. The arrangement calls for a minimum of 500,000 ICs to be delivered to Scientific-Atlanta during 1999. "Through the cooperative efforts of Scientific-Atlanta and Broadcom, we are working to integrate all of the communications signal processing functions for the Explorer 2000 digital set-top boxes into a single VLSI device," said Henry Nicholas, president and CEO of Broadcom. Earlier this year, Scientific-Atlanta announced that a number of multi-channel service operators In the United States plan to introduce two-way, real-time services using the company's Digital Interactive Network and Explorer 2000 interactive digital set-top terminals. Currently, Broadcom is shipping a 64/256-QAM demodulator IC for the Explorer 2000 set-top box. The new IC will integrate a number of functions, including the 64/256-QAM downstream receiver, QPSK control channel receiver, QPSK/16 upstream transmitter and the analog front-end, such as 10-bit A/D and D/A converters. Scientific-Atlanta' said its advanced Explorer 2000 set-top box supports high-throughput, two-way communications and it has enough processing power, memory and graphics to enable a variety of two-way, interactive applications for consumers. Once fully developed, the set-top box will provide Internet access, video-on-demand services, electronic commerce and other Internet provider based applications.