Newport Media Demonstrates World's First Mobile TV System-On-Chip (SOC) For MediaFLO
NMI700 Extends Company's Sundance SOC Family to Cover the Leading
Mobile TV Standard for North America
BARCELONA, Spain (Mobile World Congress Hall 2 - H04) - February 11, 2008 - Newport Media, an innovative fabless semiconductor company supplying products to the mobile broadcast media market, today announced sample availability of the world's first complete single-chip solution for the MediaFLO¢â mobile broadcast platform. The NMI700 FLO¢â mobile digital TV receiver integrates a RF tuner, demodulator, MAC and all required memory into a single monolithic CMOS device that will enable designers of cellular handsets, and nonconnected portable devices to deliver the smallest, power-efficient and cost effective products available.
 "Sample availability of the NMI700 SOC represents a significant technical and business milestone for Newport Media," said Mohy Abdelgany, president and chief executive officer for Newport Media. "Newport Media clearly stands alone in its ability to offer best in class SOC solutions for all major commercial mobile TV standards. The addition of a pin-for-pin compatible MediaFLO SOC to our portfolio of DVB-T/H and ISDB-T SOCs will significantly enhance our ability to be the supplier of choice for mobile TV system silicon solutions."
Key features of the NMI700 solution include up to 120dB of variable gain and greater than 50dB of adjacent channel selectivity. The device consumes only 20mW of power, yet still combines an extremely low 3.0 dB noise figure with a very high +5dBm IP3. The monolithic chip includes a dual-band VHF and UHF radio, a FLO demodulator, MAC, plus all necessary memory in a very small footprint. No other external memory, baluns or loop filters are required to create a complete solution with a very low bill of materials.
Newport Media's NMI700 FLO IC is being demonstrated this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Visit Newport Media at its booth at Hall 2 - H04 for more details.
About Newport Media, Inc.
Newport Media is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and sells highly integrated
solutions for emerging digital audio and mobile TV broadcast standards. Newport Media has
assembled a management and development team with comprehensive system semiconductor
experience in wireless handset and digital set-top box industries.
Newport Media's development team leverages its collective experience in these converging
industries to develop broadcast multimedia architectures and IC implementations with
unprecedented performance, power consumption, size and cost. For more information, visit
www.newportmediainc.com.
Newport Media is a trademark of Newport Media, Inc. All rights reserved. MediaFLO and FLO are trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated.
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