New digital radio chip targets smart devices and global markets Chorus 4
a single-chip solution, integrating four previously separate chips
Frontier Silicon announces details of Chorus 4, its next generation
digital radio chip. Chorus 4 is a single-chip solution, which integrates
four previously separate chips to deliver significant cost and energy
consumption savings.Chorus
4 is the fourth generation chip from Frontier Silicon. The chip is
designed to encourage the continued advance of digital radio around the
world by supporting all major global digital radio standards.Chorus 4
provides solutions for multiple devices, including consumer radios, the
automotive aftermarket and, for the first time, smartphones and
tablets.The company’s previous solutions have already powered over 20 million digital radios worldwide.
The key features and benefits of Chorus 4 are:
- Low cost, single chip solution: integration of RF front-end, baseband, application processor and DAC (“four chips in one”) delivers significant cost savings which enable high quality, entry-level price point digital radios
- Ultra-low power consumption - one month’s listening for 5-6 hours a day on a portable radio with four D cell batteries (comparable to FM performance)
- Multiple solutions for portable and table-top radios, smart-device docks, wireless speakers, hand-held receivers, sound-bars and audio systems
- Automotive aftermarket - solutions for head units, integrated convertors and low cost adapters
- Smart devices - enables digital radio solutions for mobile phones and tablets
- Bluetooth connectivity - connecting smart devices and digital radios to enable hybrid radio (with interactivity and additional content delivered via IP), music streaming and remote control
- Integrated service guides - new software will enable listeners to select stations from a single list of digital and analogue stations regardless of platform
Multiple radio standards - including support for AM, FM, DAB, DAB+, HD Radio and DRM
Digital Tick compliant - Chorus 4 solutions meet all technology
requirements of the UK minimum specifications for both domestic and
automotive digital radio devices.
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