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<H1>New multi-standard digital radio module</H1>
<P>The first digital radio module that includes France's DMB-Radio standard has
been announced, by the UK company <STRONG>Frontier Silicon</STRONG>.</P>
<P>France chose to adopt DMB-Radio rather than DAB+ due to it's potential
multi-media facilities despite DAB+ offering a greater choice of stations or
higher quality audio.</P>
<P><STRONG>The French government has mandated</STRONG> that all radio receivers,
including car radios, <STRONG>must be equipped with a DMB-Radio tuner by
September 2013</STRONG>.</P>
<P>Frontier Silicon's Venice 7 also supports the DAB and DAB+ standards and FM
but significantly it does not support either AM or the narrow band Digital Radio
standard DRM which was developed for the Medium and Short Wave bands.</P>
<P>France Adapts DMB (in French)<BR><A
href="http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/documents/France_adopts_DMB.pdf"
target=_blank>http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/documents/<BR>France_adopts_DMB.pdf</A></P>
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<P><FONT face=Verdana>Frontier Silicon module is the world's first combined
Internet radio, DAB and FM receiver to achieve IMDA Profile 1
certification.<BR><BR>On the same day IMDA (Internet Media Device Alliance)
rolled out its certification program at IFA, Berlin, certification of Frontier
Silicon’s Venice 6.2 module and Jupiter 6.2 reference platform enables Internet
radio manufacturers using the technology to be the first to exhibit certified
products at IFA.<BR><BR>IFA, Berlin, Germany, 7 September 2009: Frontier
Silicon, the leading supplier of connected audio technology, has announced that
its Venice 6.2 module and Jupiter 6.2 reference platform are the first combined
DAB, FM and Internet radio products to become IMDA (Internet Media Device
Alliance) Profile 1 certified. This means that any radio products being
developed by Frontier Silicon’s customers incorporating these modules or
platforms also benefit from this approval, providing a faster time for achieving
certification of their final end product to consumers.<BR><BR>The role of the
IMDA is to define a series of end-to-end technical standards, functions and
profiles which will encourage the development of a wide range of compelling
mainstream internet media devices with a degree of consistency and
interoperability for consumers, while enabling differentiation for manufacturers
and broadcasters. Its certification program was rolled out yesterday at a
half-day IMDA Summit at the IFA conference in Berlin.<BR><BR>IMDA Profile 1
certification defines an IP radio receiver specification that maximises
interoperability between broadcasters and content providers. Hence manufacturers
that develop their products to this specification can be confident that the
maximum number of services will be able to run on their
products.<BR><BR>Frontier Silicon is the first to have a certified receiver
product that combines internet radio, connected home audio streaming, DAB/DAB+
digital radio and FM radio – in a single device. This in turn provides radio
manufacturers with a turnkey IMDA Profile 1 certified Internet radio product for
fast-track certification of their own end products offering these
features.<BR><BR>A number of lead customers already benefiting from Frontier
Silicon’s IMDA Profile 1 certification – including Roberts Radio, Revo
Technologies, and M3 (the leading Internet radio manufacturer in Germany) – also
showed their certified end products at the IMDA Summit at IFA.<BR><BR>The
cost-optimized Venice 6.2 hardware module and accompanying IR2.0 Software
Development Kit (SDK) enable the industry’s most comprehensive and versatile
Internet radio, DAB and FM solution available, offering a complete hardware and
software package for consumer electronics manufacturers looking to deliver
products enabling multiple content streams, Internet radio, DAB/DAB+, FM, home
networked audio, USB and premium music services.<BR><BR>The Venice 6.2/IR2.0
solution provides one-stop shopping for consumer electronics (CE) brands and
their ODM (original device manufacturer) partners wanting to offer digital music
services on their home audio devices. The feature-customizable software stack
enables easy integration into CE home devices, and the module provides access to
over 12,000 Internet radio stations via the Frontier Silicon web portal,
together with the listener’s own digital music library using UPnP. Also
available are a comprehensive choice of premium streaming music services,
including Pandora, Last.fm and SiriusXM.<BR><BR>The Venice 6.2 module is also
available as part of Jupiter 6.2, a fully-qualified reference platform that
provides a complete Internet radio reference design, with DAB/DAB+ capability
and an LCD graphic display supporting Frontier Silicon’s enhanced user
interface. The Jupiter 6.2 platform is fully tested to conform to wireless
network connectivity and will include wireless certifications as well as
interoperability certification programs. Comprehensive certification support
enables customers wishing using the Venice 6.2 module to certify their products
with minimal time-to-market and cost.<BR><BR>Fonte: Frontier Silicon.</FONT></P>
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