NXP and DRM Consortium Demonstrate Digital Radio Mondiale Reception Platform for Car Entertainment at CES
NXP Has Developed the World's First Fully Automotive-Qualified Global Multi-Standard Digital Radio Solution Supporting Digital Radio Mondiale: a Major Milestone in Bringing Digital Radio to India
(firmenpresse) - EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS and LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwire) -- 01/09/12 -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) -- the world's largest supplier of car infotainment semiconductors -- today announced the first automotive-qualified global multi-standard digital radio co-processor to include . This makes NXP the first company to deliver automotive digital radio solutions for the three key global standards -- HD radio, DAB/DAB+/T-DMB and DRM -- on the same co-processor, the . The car radio platform will be unveiled at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, on Tuesday, January 10th at the NXP booth, Central Plaza -- CP8 -- during a Digital Radio Mondiale Reception with the DRM Consortium.
NXP's new car entertainment solution offers manufacturers the flexibility to continue using their pre-existing HD radio architecture, as DRM capability is simply enabled by loading new firmware onto the processor. The application can also be extended to DRM+ in future.
DRM digital radio is an innovative standard currently being implemented in emerging markets such as India and Russia. DRM provides FM-comparable audio quality on the AM radio band. AM covers 98% of the population in India, while only 37% of listeners can currently receive the FM signal. As such, DRM enables digital radio to be rolled out across large countries, significantly improving audio quality at a low cost.
The demonstration of an automotive-qualified DRM platform at CES is the next major milestone in introducing Digital Radio Mondiale in India. In 2010, the Indian Government gave green light and allocated funds for the digitization of All India Radio, the public radio broadcaster in India and one of the largest radio networks in the world. The largest MW DRM transmitter in the country (and one of the largest in the world with a power of 1 Megawatt) has been already installed in the west of the country with transmissions due on the air imminently. At the end of 2011, All India Radio had doubled its DRM transmissions to 16 hours a day.
"NXP is well known in the industry as the world's leading supplier of car entertainment semiconductors. This new automotive DRM solution will definitely advance the roll out of DRM in India, one of the fastest growing car markets in the world," said Ruxandra Obreja, Chairman of the DRM Consortium, a non-profit organization driving DRM uptake across the globe. "The DRM Consortium will attend CES for the first time, demonstrating in a joint event with NXP that DRM is not just a theoretical proposition, but is on the verge of becoming a mass market standard in the consumer electronics and automotive sectors."
"With this product, we now have a single hardware platform covering all the main terrestrial digital radio standards, enabling us to offer our customers a truly global solution," said Torsten Lehmann, general manager Car Entertainment business, NXP Semiconductors. "This product supports NXP's Car Entertainment strategy of taking the lead in software-defined multi-standard digital radio solutions. DRM will enable a significant proportion of the population in countries such as India to receive high quality radio broadcast for free. As such, we're really excited to help bring this standard especially to the world's emerging markets."
Global multi-standard digital radio co-processor SAF356X covering DAB/DAB+/T-DMB, HD Radio and now also DRM
The solution will be released as a product in 2012.
Digital Radio Mondiale standard for car entertainment at CES 2012:
NXP's Digital Radio Mondiale solution:
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Digital Radio Mondiale™ (DRM) is the universal, openly standardized digital broadcasting system for all broadcasting frequencies below and above 30 MHz, including LW, MW, SW, band I, II (FM band) and band III. DRM provides digital sound quality and the ease-of-use that comes from digital radio, combined with a wealth of enhanced features: Surround Sound, Journaline text information, Slideshow, EPG, and data services. DRM on short, medium and long wave for broadcasting bands up to 30 MHz (called 'DRM30') provides large coverage areas and low power consumption. The enhancement of the DRM standard for broadcast frequencies above 30 MHz ('DRM+') uses the same audio coding, data services, multiplexing and signaling schemes as DRM30 but introduces an additional transmission mode optimized for those bands. Additional information can be found by visiting .
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