 Frontier
Silicon launches smallest DAB radio module
Frontier Silicon has launched the world's smallest
and lowest-cost DAB digital radio module available today.
The new Capri FS3010, measuring only 27 x 16 x 2.6 mm, is a miniature
SMT (surface mount technology) module, which enables it to be fixed directly
to the DAB radio system board and avoids the need for connectors.
The small size and high level of integration in the module makes Capri
ideal for low-power product applications such as tiny pocket DAB players
and personal media MP3 handhelds, as well as PDAs and other portable entertainment
devices.
The Capri module is based on Frontier Silicon's Apollo multi-band RF
tuner and Kino 2 multistandard DAB and T-DMB digital baseband processor.
Complete DAB digital radio systems can be built using Capri as a slave
module controlled by a host processor, with several host interfaces available
for control and data transport streams, including SPI, SCP, and I2S. The
module receives both L-Band and Band 3 broadcasts, enabling worldwide
DAB reception.
The Apollo/Kino 2 chipset combination is based on a highly-integrated
system-on-chip architecture, with the individual chips themselves contributing
to the overall low power consumption and compact size.
Apollo measures just 5 x 5 x 0.9 mm, making it the world's smallest RF
tuner for DAB digital radio reception, and requires very few external
components. Kino 2 measures 10 x 10 x 1.3 mm and integrates multiple peripherals
and interfaces, which simplifies interfacing to the RF tuner and host
processor.
Kino 2 executes multiple multimedia and communication-based tasks concurrent
with the decoding and error correction of DAB audio and data streams.
It decodes multiple audio and data services up to the maximum 1.8 Mbps.
The Capri module is available now.
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