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Background: Kino and Apollo Frontier silicon has created a complete system-level reference design for T-DMB devices (RF tuner, Baseband demodulator and software). This reference design has been developed to launch mobile handsets for the Korean, Chinese and German market as well as for other regions intending to launch T-DMB broadcast services. The Kino 1 chip provides a dedicated hardware baseband solution for T-DMB which is fully programmable using software and is qualified in mass production today. The Kino 2 chip is Frontier Silicon's latest T-DMB baseband chip offering a step improvement in size, power consumption, and system cost compared to Kino 1. Apollo is the smallest RF tuner for T-DMB currently available supporting both Band-III and L-Band reception, requiring less than 20 external passive components, and features market leading power consumption. The small size and low power consumption make it ideal for designing into mobile handsets. With Germany and Shanghai selecting L-Band for their T-DMB transmissions, Apollo's dual band functionality offers an ideal solution for T-DMB products worldwide. The Apollo/Kino2 chipset provides mobile TV handset manufacturers with maximum flexibility so that they can easily customize their product to meet the needs of their customers. Background information about T-DMB T-DMB stands for Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. Initially developed in South Korea, based on the Eureka 147 standard for Digital Audio Broadcast, T-DMB is now an internationally accepted standard for the broadcast of TV and other multimedia content to mobile devices. T-DMB was commercially launched in Korea in 2005 and will be launched in China and Germany in 2006. More info on www.worlddab.org Select "Mobile TV Now" Frontier Silicon uses MetaTM and UCCTM intellectual property from Imagination Technologies. Contact: Anthony
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