Renesas Electronics and SoftAtHome Collaborate to Enable the Rapid Deployment of Cost Competitive Hybrid IPTV/Terrestrial, Satellite and OTT STBs

The integration of the SoftAtHome Operating Platform on Renesas Electronics’ EMMA3SL/P SoC for STBs provides a low-cost, ready-to-deploy solution for operators and service providers wanting to rapidly roll out a wide array of key services such as TV, OTT and DLNA-compatible services (as defined by the Digital Living Network Alliance) into the digital home. The Renesas Electronics and SoftAtHome offering comprises a PVR-ready MPEG-4 HD Pay TV hardware and software development kit and a set of software components. These include video, graphical user interfaces, security, network access, content recording and sharing, or remote management. Operators can quickly assemble and customize these through a public API to deploy innovative services.

SoftAtHome provides a ubiquitous solution to the market thanks to the SoftAtHome Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). The development and validation by Renesas Electronics’ software wrapper between Renesas Electronics’ APIs and SoftAtHome HAL enable the various components of the SoftAtHome Operating Platform (SOP) – which include IPTV, HTML, DTT, OTT, DLNA and Application Store – to run on Renesas Electronics’ EMMA3SL/P platform for low-cost, high definition STBs.

Using the Renesas Electronics and SoftAtHome jointly developed reference solution, STB vendors benefit from a proven, reliable, low-cost and secure high-definition STB SOC, short time-to-market and reduced R&D costs. This is backed by a group of experienced Renesas Electronics’ software integration partners. Dependable production support and quality are ensured by in house production from Renesas Electronics’ Fabs in Japan.

Michel Degland, CEO of SoftAtHome, commented: “SoftAtHome continues to fulfill the expectations of the market and demonstrate the openness and the ubiquity of its SOP software. With this first cooperation, SoftAtHome and Renesas Electronics are jointly moving forward towards the full integration of converging media in the home.”

“The combination of Renesas Electronics’ extensive portfolio for mobile and home applications (STBs, TVs, Blu-Ray, web tablets, etc.) and the collaboration with SoftAtHome paves the way to fully-convergent applications for service providers,” said Daniel Tanniere, General Manager, Communications and Consumer Business Group, Renesas Electronics Europe.

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