Frontier Silicon Internet Radio Receiver Platform Achieves Pandora Certification

(Product News, 17 Jul 2009)

Frontier Silicon has announced that its Internet radio receiver platform technology has achieved certification from Pandora, the leading personal internet radio service in the USA. The significance of this development is that manufacturers of home audio systems can now bring Pandora to their connected receivers, allowing listeners free access to personal radio in a simple to use consumer friendly user interface.

The cost-optimized Venice 6.2 module and accompanying IR2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) offer a complete hardware and software package for consumer electronics manufacturers looking to deliver products enabling multiple content streams, internet radio, network audio and premium music services. In addition, the Venice 6.2 module provides FM and Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) radio options. A fully-qualified low cost home audio reference platform, Jupiter 6.2, provides manufactures with a complete turn-key internet radio reference design featuring LCD graphic display supporting Frontier Silicon’s enhanced user interface.

Commenting on the development, Jessica Steel, SVP of Business Development at Pandora stated, “Pandora is committed to providing listeners our personalized internet radio service on a wide range of consumer electronics devices. As a supplier of receiver technology to in home connected digital audio manufacturers, Frontier Silicon is a welcome partner in that effort”.

Anthony Sethill, CEO of Frontier Silicon, added, “We are delighted to receive certification and to be able to offer our customers the Pandora service. Certification of our internet radio platform enables customers wishing to use the Venice 6.2 module to certify their products with minimal time-to-market and cost.” He continued, “Several recent surveys have pointed to internet radio listening growing, and Pandora accounts for a significant proportion of US online listening. The fact that our hardware and software technology platform is now certified for Pandora opens the door for manufacturers to add this feature and consequently for even more listeners to access the service.”