Broadcom Pioneers Breakthrough in Digital Cable Tuner Design

Broadcom Pioneers Breakthrough in Digital Cable Tuner Design

Introduces Industry's First Fully Digital Full-Band Capture Technology - Fosters Transition to Hybrid IP-based Cable Platforms

News Highlights:

- To meet consumer demand for TV everywhere and high speed Internet, Broadcom's Full-Band Capture (FBC) enables a more efficient distribution of video streams and IP services to connected devices in the home ecosystem.

- FBC enables unprecedented bandwidth scalability and flexibility on hybrid IP cable set-top boxes and DOCSIS 3.0 cable gateways.

- FBC replaces wideband and multiple analog video tuners with one system-on-a-chip (SoC) for simpler, smaller, faster, and lower power designs.

CHICAGO, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cable Show -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced the industry's first 1GHz Full-Band Capture digital tuning technology integrated in three new 40nm hybrid IP cable set-top box (STB) and DOCSIS 3.0 gateway SoC solutions. These deliver the cable tuner density and performance that operators need to convert current cable systems to IP-based video platforms. Visit Broadcom.com for more news.

Broadcom's FBC provides scalable bandwidth while reducing power, cost and simplifying cable tuner design while accelerating the deployment of DOCSIS 3.0 cable gateways and hybrid IP cable STBs. Hybrid IP cable STBs will more efficiently bring additional video streams and IP services to connected devices in the home ecosystem and are expected to grow at 40 percent through 2014*.

Key Technology Advantages:

-- Broadcom's FBC technology directly digitizes the entire 1GHz downstream
spectrum, replacing the need for a large number of tuners with only one
FBC digital tuner. Full-Band Capture technology advantages include:
-- Digital tuning: engineered with new enhanced signal processing
techniques that exceed the most challenging performance requirements
demanded by operators.
-- Bandwidth deployment flexibility: any demodulator can tune to any
frequency removing wideband "block" tuner restrictions.
-- Reduced power consumption: more than 50 percent reduction with new
tuner architecture.
-- Faster channel change: FastRTV(TM) channel change technology paired
with Full-Band Capture provides quick channel change regardless of
frequency.
-- Reduced system cost: dramatically minimizes the number of components
by replacing up to nine cable tuners in a system with only one FBC
digital tuner supporting as many demodulators as required.
-- Broadcom's 40nm 8-QAM BCM3128 and 4-QAM BCM3124 cable multi-receiver
SoCs and the 400 Mbps BCM3383 Euro/DOCSIS 3.0 cable gateway SoC are the
industry's first fully integrated solutions to support FBC technology
and are now shipping to customers.

Quotes:

Dan Marotta, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group

"Driving the next frontier in cable TV, Broadcom's breakthrough in tuner design reduces the cost to transition current cable platforms to hybrid IP-based solutions, proliferating IP content delivery and services throughout the home and to connected devices."

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About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

Broadcom®, the pulse logo, Connecting everything®, the Connecting everything logo and FastRTV(TM) are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

Contacts
Media Relations Investor Relations
Dana Brzozkiewicz Chris Zegarelli
Public Relations Director, Investor
Manager Relations
949-926-6367 949-926-7567
danabrz@broadcom.com czegarel@broadcom.com

*In-Stat Market Research, 8/2010

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