AUSTIN, Texas, Apr 29, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Silicon
Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance,
analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today announced that its Si2170
hybrid TV tuner was selected as the winner in the 2010 EDN Innovation
Awards in the RF
IC category.
Instituted in 1990, the EDN Innovation Awards honor the people,
products, and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry
over the past year. The winners
of the 20th annual EDN Innovation Awards competition were
announced at an awards ceremony held at the Silicon Valley Capital Club
in San Jose, Calif. on April 26.
"We're honored to be recognized for our patented innovation that enabled
us to deliver the first silicon TV tuner to market that is able to
exceed the performance of discrete TV tuners," said Dave Bresemann, vice
president of broadcast products at Silicon Labs. "This award is a
tribute to the hard work that our design and support team has put into
delivering a highly integrated TV tuner solution being adopted by the
top iDTV makers in the industry."
About the Si2170 TV Tuner
The Si2170 is a globally-compliant hybrid TV tuner with an analog TV
demodulator in a single CMOS IC. Silicon Labs' patented digital low-IF
architecture enables the Si2170 tuner to achieve exceptional performance
and integration while addressing the challenges created by hybrid analog
and digital reception and multiple regional standards. The architecture
allows many functions typically relying on analog and discrete fixed
components to be implemented with cost-effective programmable digital
signal processing. This enables TV manufacturers to optimize system
parameters and comply with worldwide cable and terrestrial broadcast
standards.
The Si2170's high level of integration eliminates more than 100 discrete
components, enabling simpler designs, lower manufacturing costs, higher
production yields and improved reliability for iDTVs, set-top boxes and
PC TV applications. By designing the Si2170 TV tuner in standard CMOS,
Silicon Labs is the only company to offer a roadmap to cost-effective,
hybrid single-chip TV receivers that integrate tuner and demodulator
functions in a single IC.
About EDN and EDN.com
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engineering managers worldwide. EDN.com delivers a three-dimensional
view of the electronic industry via news coverage, strategic business
information, and in-depth technical content. (www.edn.com)
EDN is published by Reed Business Information (www.reedbusiness.com/us),
the largest business-to-business publisher in the United States and a
member of the Reed Elsevier Group Plc (NYSE: RUK and ENL) - a
world-leading publisher and information provider.
Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Silicon Laboratories is an industry leader in the innovation of
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 highly-integrated,
easy-to-use products offers customers significant advantages in
performance, size and power consumption. These patented solutions serve
a broad set of markets and applications including consumer,
communications, computing, industrial and automotive.
Headquartered in Austin, TX, Silicon Labs is a global enterprise with
operations, sales and design activities worldwide. The company is
committed to contributing to our customers' success by recruiting the
highest quality talent to create industry-changing innovations. For more
information about Silicon Labs, please visit www.silabs.com.
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SOURCE: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Silicon Laboratories Inc.
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