Elonics Announces Availability of CMOS RF Silicon Tuner

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Elonics today announces the availability of its E4000 CMOS RF Silicon Tuner, the first product to incorporate its proprietary DigitalTune™ technology.

The device completes the RF portion for several wireless multimedia broadcast standards, including DVB-T/H, T-DMB, ISDB-T, DAB and FM.

It targets a potential $1Bn 2010 market opportunity for multimedia broadcast receivers in the portable and handheld consumer market.

The E4000 tuner integrates the entire RF section of several receivers onto a single chip using a flexible radio approach. The device is universal, covering UHF to L Band frequencies, very low power, around 100mW continuous, delivered in a compact 5×5 mm2 QFN package and uses a cost effective CMOS silicon fabrication technology. The entire power consumption is around 20mW for mobile-TV (DVB-H).

Its integrated RF filtering and use of a Zero-IF architecture means that no bulky external base-band filters are required – essential for delivering a very compact and cost-effective solution for the mass-market handsets.

David Srodzinski, Elonics CEO comments, “This product represents a major breakthrough in terms of cost, flexibility and performance of RF devices, offering SiGe performance at CMOS prices. It fulfills the need of a growing number of base-band and processor silicon partners, module manufacturers and major OEM’s. They need access to a supply of cost-effective RF Tuners from an independent vendor to enable delivery of complete systems to the customer.”

About DigitalTune™

Elonics DigitalTune™ technology allows several complete radio frequency (RF) front ends to be fabricated on to one cost effective silicon chip using standard, small geometry, CMOS silicon processing. Further, it achieves this in a very compact form by using a single device in a flexible implementation and is digitally programmable. The technology simultaneously targets meeting demanding requirements for high performance and low power.