New multi-standard digital radio module

The first digital radio module that includes France's DMB-Radio standard has been announced, by the UK company Frontier Silicon.

France chose to adopt DMB-Radio rather than DAB+ due to it's potential multi-media facilities despite DAB+ offering a greater choice of stations or higher quality audio.

The French government has mandated that all radio receivers, including car radios, must be equipped with a DMB-Radio tuner by September 2013.

Frontier Silicon's Venice 7 also supports the DAB and DAB+ standards and FM but significantly it does not support either AM or the narrow band Digital Radio standard DRM which was developed for the Medium and Short Wave bands.

France Adapts DMB (in French)
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/documents/
France_adopts_DMB.pdf

Frontier Silicon
http://www.frontier-silicon.com/