Philips Semiconductors Reinvents Radio Architecture
Integrated FM-Stereo Broadcast Receiver Chips Bring Radio to Portable Consumer Devices
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2002--Philips
Semiconductors, a division of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG,
AEX:PHI), has made a breakthrough with the launch of a family of
fully-integrated single chip stereo radios for low voltage and low
power applications. Making significant cuts in the number of external
components and the cost of the peripherals, the radio is completely
adjustment free and can tune into European, US and Japanese FM bands.
With the growing demand to integrate radios into mobile phones, this
new development will transcend current industry capabilities, allowing
radios to feature in a variety of portable devices where there is
little space available. The first chips to be released will be the
TEA5767 and the TEA5768.
Despite changing lifestyles, the popularity of radio continues. To
enable equipment manufacturers to capitalize on this demand, Philips
Semiconductors has pioneered its new architectural approach. Designers
will now be able to incorporate the radio function into a variety of
consumer devices including mobile phones, MP3 players, portable CD
players, toys and promotional giveaways. The simplicity of design-in
and small chip size of the new family will help in furthering the
proliferation of radios in portable hand-held devices.
"Philips Semiconductors has realized a breakthrough in radio
architecture design in such a way that expensive external parts have
been replaced by smart silicon. This has resulted in lower material
costs and a smaller footprint for the total radio function, giving
simpler radio design. The latter translates into faster time to market
for our customers," commented Kees Joosse, market sector team manager
at Philips Semiconductors. "Capitalizing on the trend for access to
radio at any time, in any place, this new family of chips will enable
the inclusion of radios in a whole new set of products. 'One-chip
radio' is now becoming a reality, which will enable many new, exciting
innovations."
Classical radio architecture requires external parts to be aligned
during production. Many of these external parts handle high frequency
signals, which need very carefully-designed Printed Circuit Boards
(PCBs). The TEA5767 and TEA5768 chips have much fewer external parts
than standard chips. They need no alignments and PCB design is much
less complicated because of the small footprint of the total radio
function when using the new chip.
Samples of TEA5767 and TEA5768 are currently available. Volume
production will begin in the first quarter of 2002.
About Philips Semiconductors
Philips Semiconductors, a top ten semiconductor supplier with
revenues of US $4.4 billion in 2001, is a world leader in silicon
systems and standard products for consumer, communications, automotive
and computing products. The organization designs, develops and
manufactures silicon solutions based on its innovative Nexperia(TM)
architectures to create living technology for its customers creating
products, service providers using the products, and consumers enjoying
the resulting products and services. For more information:
www.semiconductors.philips.com.
Contact:
Philips Semiconductors
Paul Morrison, 408/474-5065
Paul.Morrison@philips.com
or
The Hoffman Agency
Lily Lin, 408/975-3084 (USA)
Llin@hoffman.com
or
Philips Semiconductors
Robyn Kao, +886 2 2134 2968 (Asia Pacific)
robyn.kao@philips.com
or
Warman & Bannister
Birgit van Gellecom, +31 40 214 60 14 (Europe)
BirgitG@warban.nl
