NXP's Smallest Hybrid PCTV Solution Reduces BoM, Power Consumption

(Product News, 26 May 2008)

NXP Semiconductors' family of hybrid PCTV solutions, the SAA7231, is a single-chip hybrid solution that supports worldwide broadcast standards, making it ideal for manufacturers seeking to target different geographical markets with PCTV-enabled products. As such, the NXP SAA7231, with as small as half a mini-Express Card form-factor, is the preferred choice of leading consumer technology manufacturers, including ASUS, AVerMedia, Creatix, Medion and Pegatron for their PCTV products, including portable computers, laptops, living room PCs and PCTV cards.

The SAA7231 family includes 12 variants to suit a variety of manufacturer use cases to offer the maximum flexibility in design and integration. Incorporating a channel decoder for DVB-S/T, a video decoder for all analog standards, a stereo audio broadcast decoder with stereo base band inputs, and a PCI/PCIe interface, the NXP SAA7231 family offers industry-leading integration, enabling developers to achieve significant design and bills-of-material (BOM) cost reduction. Sophisticated power management capabilities ensure ultra-low power consumption for uninterrupted streaming of A/V content, enabling extended playback time on portable devices.

The NXP SAA7231 family features a full-function built-in MCE compliance IR and can achieve reception/ transmission/learning/wake-up without any external hardware. This will benefit manufacturers with a further cost saving of more than $5 from PC system point of view.

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