DS2's 200 Mbps Power Line Chip for AV Applications Receives Top Honors at CES Innovations Awards.VALENCIA, Spain For the Valencia wine region, see . Valencia (Spanish: Valencia [ba'lenθja];[1] Valencian: València [va'ɫɛnsia]) is the capital of the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia and its province. -- The Power line Communication industry's leading chip manufacturer receives CES Best of Innovations award in the Software/Embedded Technologies category At the CES Innovations Awards, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Design of Systems on Silicon Founded in 1998, Design of Systems on Silicon S.A. (DS2), is a leading supplier of silicon and software for Power line Communications (PLC) and the first company to develop and market PLC chipsets delivering data rates of up to 200 Mbit/s. External links
DS2's new product line of Integrated Circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. (IC) for in-home Power line Communications are set to become the chips of choice and the core building blocks in every device in the PLC ecosystem to enable home media networking capability in all types of consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and , providing maximum integration at low cost for the Digital Home. The low cost high performance chip serves the needs of consumer electronics manufacturers for in home PLC applications connecting multimedia consumer appliances such as Media Centre PCs, Digital TV, MP3 players, networked set-top boxes and PVRs; indeed all types of audio or video appliances. Applications incorporating devices from the new DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S 90xx IC range will be previewed at the Best of Innovations display and at the Innovations Showcase in January. Since volume availability of the 200Mbps chip-sets in July this year, this technology has revolutionized the power line market in a number of aspects. In terms of performance it is more than10 times faster than other competing technologies and two technology generations ahead of other power line silicon providers. It supports quality of service control for multiple streams of HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates or SDTV (Standard Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards with 480 lines of resolution. All SDTV formats are interlaced, and SDTV pictures are not as sharp as progressive scan EDTV or HDTV (Enhanced Definition or High Definition). SDTV Vs. video and it is the only power line technology that implements the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis technical park, Nice, France, www.etsi.org) A non-profit membership organization founded in 1988, dedicated to standardizing information and communication technologies (ICT) throughout Europe. world-wide standard for coexistence ensuring inter-operability for BPL See broadband over power lines. power line and in home power line essential to guarantee connectivity in a networked, digital era. Jorge Blasco, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of DS2 stated that the combination of lowest coast and premier performance, combined with a feature rich chipset solution and DS2's superior time-to-market will be a major factor in the success of products based on the 200Mbps chips. "Our business model is based on partnership with our clients to help them get the best leverage from the know-how that we provide. Our Reference Designs provide a head start for customers developing their own connected intelligent power line products helping them gain time to market, reduce costs and allowing them to start development immediately while their re-design work to develop design-in or plug-in additional applications is underway." About the DS2 AV home networking PLC solution DSS9010, DSS9011 and DSS7700: Chipset Solutions for high-speed home applications The DSS9010 and DSS9011 are optimized for high-speed home applications, or as devices for high-speed home-networking domestic power cables. The DSS9010 is optimized used for multimedia and pure data, supporting real-time traffic (data, video) with QoS management. The DSS9011 is suited for digital transport of any type of audio from telephone quality to multi channel DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. high fidelity signals, with QoS management for optimal audio performance, target applications include Home Theatre sound distribution, PLC VoIP phones and PLC connected MP3 players. The DSS7700 reduces the manufacturing costs of the analog front end (AFE (Apple File Exchange) An earlier Macintosh utility that converted data files between Mac and PC formats. It also included a file translator between IBM's DCA format and MacWrite. ). Application Programming Interface (API) for Custom Solutions The DSS90xx contains a high performance embedded processor, which, together with the API and development environment provided by DS2 allows manufacturers to easily create custom applications at very low cost. Development Environment DS2 has created a sophisticated software development environment allowing custom applications to be developed, verified, and added to the extensive features offered by the DSS90xx devices. The development environment is based on industry standard tools for fast and efficient application design. Reference Designs DS2 has developed a complete set of reference designs for user modems as well as for infrastructure equipment. The designs have been thoroughly validated for EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. and thermal performance, and can provide an advanced foundation for manufacturers seeking to minimize their time to market. Evaluation Equipment DS2 produces and sells evaluation equipment based on DS2 reference designs. This allows customers to rapidly evaluate DS2's PLC technology and provides a prototyping platform for PLC network assessment. About DS2 DS2 (www.ds2.es) is the leading supplier of silicon and software for Power line Communications (PLC). Founded in 1998, DS2 counts on Endesa, (www.endesa.es) and Japanese trading corporation, Itochu (www.Itochu.com) among its investors. DS2 Power line technology converts the existing electricity grid and domestic power lines into a high-speed communications network supporting voice, video and data services, at low cost. DS2's Power line technology delivers data rates in excess of 200 Mbps to support multiple simultaneous video-streams, voice and data applications. DS2 is driving standardization activity in many international bodies and DS2 reference designs and chips have been chosen by numerous world-class branded manufacturers who incorporate DS2 technology in finished products for all sectors of the PLC market. For more information about DS2, please visit http://www.ds2.es |
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