Digital Set-Top Boxes Designed by Promwad Announced at CSTB-2010 Expo in Moscow

MINSK, Belarus, Russia — Promwad electronics design center announces a number of custom designed STB solutions at the 12th International CSTB-2010 Expo that takes place on February 2-4 in Moscow, Crocus Expo.

The event is dedicated to digital free-to-air TV, Cable & Satellite TV, IPTV, HDTV etc.

Among new products there is a DVB-T SD / HD set-top box reference design based on STi7167 from STMicroelectronics. The reference design was developed by Promwad in cooperation with STMicroelectronics Russia. The platform is accompanied with a middleware package making it suitable for quick adaptation and customization. This solution can be used in hybrid content delivery systems (DVB-C + IP, DVB-T + IP) and thus may dramatically reduce time-to-market for many companies from digital TV market.

To know more about the product, please, visit Booth #793 at CSTB-2010.

At the same time, one more custom designed STB DVB-T solution developed by Promwad in cooperation with Locus, a leading Russian manufacturer of terrestrial TV antennas, is shown at CSTB-2010. The product is based on STi5205 chip from STMicroelectronics and is focused on the low-end and middle-end market. It has the following useful features:

• Electronic programme guide (EPG)
• Scheduler
• Channel Editor
• Photos Viewer
• Music playback from an external USB stick or HDD drive.