Future Waves Provides Highly Flexible RF Solution for DAB and T-DMB

Future Waves Provides Highly Flexible RF Solution for DAB and T-DMB

TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- At worldDAB Beijing event this month, Future Waves will demonstrate its RF front end solution working with various baseband chips.

Future Waves' FENIX FNX 14701 is a highly integrated RF tuner chip for DAB/DMB receiver solutions which features low power consumption, low component counts and form factor, and offers tri-band reception. However, the key advantage is its flexibility to operate with all existing baseband solutions in the market.

"We provide the market with a high compatibility feature because we understand that each market has its own unique requirements and each solution provides different benefits," said Glenn Vandevoorde, CEO of Future Waves. "Besides, working closely with our customers is vital to us. Offering a variety of options to our OEM, ODM customers can also speed up the proliferation of DAB/DMB enabled devices. Providing easy-to-use and flexible front-end solutions will open up markets to new players. It also enforces technical edge and know-how which current players have built up.

According to DRDB, there are nearly 6 million DAB listeners in the U.K. already. In-Stat also predicts that Mobile TV subscribers in China will maintain fast growth in next couple of years with a CAGR of 315% reaching 94 million in 2009. It seems that the digital broadcasting market has taken off. "People have been waiting for a while to see China's action toward the digitalization trend in electronic consumer products; especially the 2008 Beijing Olympics has been a driving force to speed up the introduction of mobile digital TV and radio standards," pointed out by Mr. Vandevoorde. "In order to serve the market efficiently, Future Waves believes in local support. We do work with local baseband IC and solution providers in each area, such as Isis-IP in China, to obtain better market position and geographical advantages. More importantly, by doing this we can provide real-time services and technical support to the manufacturers, and this is essential to lift the industry growth and assist our customers' success."

About Future Waves

Future Waves is a fabless design house focusing on RF and mixed-signal chips for next generation communication and broadcast technologies. Future Waves targets digital tuners for portable applications and provides the most flexible RF solution in addition to industry leading performance regarding power consumption, cost effectiveness and ease of use.

www.f-waves.com

Contact

Kelly Wang, Marketing manager
Tel: +886-2-27998108
Email: kelly@f-waves.com

Source: Future Waves

CONTACT: Kelly Wang, of Future Waves, +886-2-27998108, or kelly@f-
waves.com

Web site: http://www.f-waves.com/

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