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Frontier Silicon announces latest audio platform enabling home music systems for the digital age

New platform adds to range of solutions for Wi-Fi Radio with iPod connectivity to enable low cost reference design for an integrated music portable music player, Internet radio, and broadcast radio

Hong Kong, 14 April 2008:  Frontier Silicon today announces the latest addition to its range of solutions for Wi-Fi Radio with iPod connectivity. The Jupiter 6.1 platform provides a low-cost, fully-qualified reference design for connected home audio systems, with a wealth of features including extended iPod compatibility and an enhanced graphical user interface.

Based on Frontier Silicon’s Chorus 2 digital audio processor and Venice 6 module, the new platform delivers advanced iPod interactivity through the integration of the Apple iPod Authentication Coprocessor 2.0; this makes it possible to access and display information from the device such as the entire file database and track metadata, and to play video from all video-enabled iPod models.

Anthony Sethill, CEO Frontier Silicon, comments, “With the functionality designed into the Jupiter 6.1 platform, our customers can quickly bring to market competitively priced home audio devices that will give users access to a vast array of audio and video content from their iPod alongside music from the internet or broadcast radio.” He continues, “We expect that connectivity to the internet and the iPod will become the must-have features in new home audio products over the next year.”

Jupiter 6.1 supports all features of Venice 6 including Internet radio, music streaming services, DAB, DAB+, FM, and an integrated media player to playback audio from a PC or USB device. The platform provides a simple, fully-flexible solution for OEMs to produce feature-rich connected audio products with iPod docking capability.

While most Internet radios and audio systems use basic, character-based display elements, Jupiter 6.1 includes a graphical user interface and a display which supports mixed styled fonts, improved icons, animation, splash screens and a highly customisable screen layout, all tied together with an intuitive, menu-driven navigation engine to ensure the best possible consumer experience.

Frontier Silicon is a leader in digital radio and iPod connectivity, with a range of iPod-enabled audio platforms including Madison – the first iPod DAB adaptor/remote control and smallest DAB receiver available.

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