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Venice DAB module powers the most sophisticated digital radio features on the market such as pause, rewind and record live radio, and play back MP3 music

London, 8th September 2004: The launch of 'The Bug' by PURE Digital in May this year has raised the stakes for the capabilities of DAB digital radios: combining DAB with record, pause, rewind and playback capability plus the ability to play MP3 files downloaded from a SD card in an innovative and original design, making it the most sophisticated digital radio product currently available. Powering 'The Bug' is the Venice FS2020 DAB module, the market-leading DAB digital radio solution from Frontier Silicon.

Today Venice has proved to be the most popular DAB solution on the market with over 50 different DAB radio products using it as a complete RF and base band solution for digital radio.

With the introduction of a tri-band (DAB Band III and L Band, FM) version of the Venice module in 2004, manufacturers are able to take advantage of the advanced base band features enabled by Chorus in radios that are being developed for markets where L-Band spectrum is being used for DAB broadcasts. The addition of FM capability in software also offers developers a route to reduce system cost through removal of the FM tuner.

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Editor's notes: About Frontier Silicon

Frontier Silicon, winner of the PricewaterhouseCoopers hottest technology company of 2004 award, is at the forefront of the digital revolution with a range of semiconductor solutions for digital TV, digital radio and other emerging consumer multimedia products. As a fabless semiconductor business, Frontier Silicon’s core products include complete DAB modules, DVB-T solutions and the underlying system-on-chip (SoC) devices. Key customers for these products include consumer electronic, automotive entertainment and PDA/mobile phone manufacturers. In digital radio (DAB), the company’s chips are found in the world’s leading brands including Bush, Cambridge Audio, Goodmans, Grundig, Hitachi, Ministry of Sound, Philips, PURE Digital, Roberts Radio, Sharp, Sony and TEAC.