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ATI Technologies is introducing a single chip, DVB-H compliant, Mobile TV Receiver solution for mobile phones and other handheld devices.

The company’s Imageon TV solutions are designed to offer handset manufacturers with system-level flexibility, high integration, low power and optimal BOM cost.

The WTV100-M is a single chip front-end that integrates a dual-band RF tuner (UHF for Europe and L-Band for US) with a DVB-T/DVB-H OFDM demodulator and all necessary discretes in a SiP (System-in-Package).

The WTV100-M component interfaces to ATI’s Imageon media processors, as the audio and video decoders, for a complete end-to-end DVB-H solution.

The WTV100 demodulator supports most worldwide operation modes, can handle simultaneous processing of multiple services, multiple DRM solutions and integrates in hardware a decoder for Multi-Protocol-Encapsulator Forward-Error-Correction (MPE-FEC) and its memory.

It also offers flexible and versatile interfaces and allows ATI to work with the industry’s best-in-class silicon RF tuners to provide an extremely compact, proven and reliable front-end component (WTV100-M).

ATI’s Imageon TV is a complete and monolithic system-on-chip (SoC) solution that is host, OS and DRM agnostic. It off-loads the host CPU for better operation and seamless integration in any environment.

The result is a quick time-to-market development of Mobile TV enabled handsets. Imageon TV solutions come complete with a DVB-CBMS Phase 1 compliant software stack, which includes the User Interface (UI), Electronic Service Guide (ESG), middleware, APIs to most applicable DRM solutions, and a full SDK.

ATI’s WTV solutions have been tested and validated in both UHF and L-band field trials held with partner broadcasters in Europe and the US throughout 2005. This has ensured interoperability and good mobility performance in multiple network configurations, the company claims.

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