Frontier Silicon and S3 join forces to develop complete multi-standard mobile TV solution

Matthew Hatch VP marketing & business development of Frontier said, “The mobile TV market is fragmented across many different standards. The ability to address multiple standards in the same handset is increasingly becoming a requirement. We chose S3 because they are the leading provider of DVB-H based mobile solutions and because together we provide handset manufacturers with a complete optimised multi-standard system from the antenna through to the software application. This removes the need to separately source various components that would still require integration effort and system optimisation by our customers”.

John Maguire, general manager, mobile DTV products, S3, added, “Frontier Silicon's market leading position in T-DMB and DAB made them a natural choice for this collaboration. S3 is committed to offering multi-standard client solutions and aligning ourselves with key market players in the mobile DTV ecosystem, such as Frontier. By closely defining a clear interface between our middleware and the front-end driver software, we have been able to take advantage of the significant hardware acceleration available on the Frontier Silicon chipset and combine it with the flexibility and performance of the onHandTV software stack”.

Frontier Silicon is already supplying mobile TV chipsets into the handset market, shipping over a million ICs into Korea, China and Germany; the company’s DSP-based approach to its baseband provides the ability to partition the total multi-standard system solution optimally between host and baseband – removing any inefficiencies and shortcomings required of hardwired approaches.

Since 2004, onHandTV has delivered the key protocol stacks, middleware and applications required to rapidly deploy TV on mobile products compliant with emerging DVB-H standards. This multi-standard solution adds T-DMB to the growing portfolio of emerging commercial networks supported by S3's unique Operator Adaptation Package (OAP) architecture.