Industry's First CMOS "Radio-on-a-Chip" ICs Widely Adopted in Leading
Consumer Electronics and Automotive Designs
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Reaching a major milestone in the broadcast audio market, Silicon
Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance,
analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today announced that it has shipped
its one billionth broadcast radio IC. Silicon Labs' digital CMOS
broadcast radios are widely used in handsets, portable media players
(PMPs), personal navigation devices (PNDs), automotive infotainment
systems, tabletop and bedside radios, portable radios, boom boxes and
numerous other consumer electronics products.
Silicon Labs introduced the industry's first single-chip FM receiver in
2005. As the industry's smallest, highest performance and most
integrated FM broadcast radio IC, the Si4700
IC redefined how FM tuners were designed into consumer electronics
products. At that time, traditional broadcast audio solutions were based
on complex, costly analog architectures that required more than 30
discrete components. The highly integrated Si4700 revolutionized
broadcast radio designs by offering exceptional, highly flexible
performance, while simultaneously reducing component count by more than
90 percent and board space by more than 60 percent.
Over the past six years, Silicon Labs has rapidly expanded its broadcast
audio portfolio to more than 40 distinct products including FM radio
receivers, FM radio transmitters/transceivers, AM/FM receivers,
shortwave and weather band receivers, RDS data receivers and automotive
radio receivers. These products are now the broadcast radio ICs of
choice for many leading consumer electronics brands.
"Silicon Labs delivered the industry's first monolithic all-CMOS FM
receiver, providing breakthrough cost, size, integration and performance
for broadcast receiver applications in handsets, navigation devices,
media players and consumer electronics," said Jag Bolaria, a senior
analyst at The Linley Group. "The company has continued to drive market
innovation in CMOS FM transmitters and multi-band AM/FM/SW and
weather-band receivers, all widely adopted in the consumer electronics,
portable and automotive markets."
Silicon Labs' broadcast radio ICs leverage the company's patented low-IF
digital architecture, which enables the highest level of selectivity and
sensitivity performance for radios, resulting in reduced interference
and superior reception. In addition, Silicon Labs broadcast receivers
incorporate advanced audio processing technology that delivers sound
quality that is unmatched by other competing radio receiver ICs.
"Silicon Labs thrives on pioneering new ways to solve difficult system
design challenges with mixed-signal technology," said Diwakar
Vishakhadatta, general manager of Silicon Labs' broadcast audio
products. "Our single-chip FM, AM/FM receiver and transceiver families
are a case in point. These products have helped our customers reduce the
cost and complexity of their designs while enabling more features and
functionality to help them differentiate their products in the
marketplace. We continue to invest and innovate around our low-IF
digital architecture to remain a strategic supplier of broadcast radio
technology to the industry."
Silicon Labs has approximately 100 issued and pending worldwide patent
applications in audio technologies for its AM and FM related products.
For additional information about Silicon Labs' broadcast audio products,
please visit www.silabs.com/pr/broadcast.
Silicon Laboratories Inc.
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high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Developed by a
world-class engineering team with unsurpassed expertise in mixed-signal
design, Silicon Labs' diverse portfolio of patented semiconductor
solutions offers customers significant advantages in performance, size
and power consumption. For more information about Silicon Labs, please
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