Texas Instruments Select Silicon & Software Systems' (S3) onHandTV DVB-H Software Stack for 3GSM Demonstration.BARCELONA, Spain -- Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. (S3), a leading provider of Mobile Digital TV Solutions, today announced that Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. Incorporated (TI) is using onHandTV(TM), S3's DVB-H See mobile TV and DVB. software stack (1) A stack that is implemented in memory rather than in hardware registers. See stack. (2) A generic reference to a set of system programs or a set of application programs that form a complete system. See stack. , in its mobile DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. demonstration at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. The demonstration includes S3's onHandTV software stack and TI's Hollywood(TM) single chip DVB-H front-end and OMAP OMAP Office of Medical Assistance Programs (Oregon Department of Human Services) OMAP Open Multimedia Applications Platform (Texas Instruments semiconductor operating system) 2420 applications processor. onHandTV delivers the key protocol stacks, middleware and applications required to rapidly deploy TV on Mobile products compliant with emerging IPDC (Internet Protocol Device Control) A protocol for controlling media gateways developed by the Technical Advisory Committee, which was convened by Level 3 and others. over DVB-H standards. It combines a CBMS CBMS Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE Symposium) CBMS International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE Symposium) CBMS Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences compliant feature set with Operator Adaptation Packages (OAPs) tuned to meet the requirements of upcoming commercial launches and trials. "We are delighted to be working with S3, the market leader in DVB-H software for this mobile DTV demonstration," said Marc Cetto, general manager of TI's Mobile Connectivity Solutions. "TI believes the flexibility and ease-of-integration offered by S3's onHandTV DVB-H stack, combined with their reputation and expertise in mobile DTV, compliment the power efficiency and performance achievable with TI's Hollywood single chip and OMAP processor reference design." Speaking about the announcement, John O'Brien John O'Brien may refer to: In public life:
TI is demonstrating a complete DVB-H solution at the 3GSM World Congress this week in Barcelona in Hall 8, B14-B15. About Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. (S3): S3 has been designing solutions for the Digital Consumer market since 1990 and has exposure across the full breadth of the industry, ranging from broadcaster to consumer Since 2004 S3 has been delivering leading-edge DVB-H/IPDC middleware and applications for Mobile TV In addition to software solutions, S3 designs ICs and full system solutions as well as reference boards and hardware designs for high-volume consumer electronics and mobile products. S3 provides design solutions in four key areas: System IC, Digital Consumer, Network Infrastructure and Medical Systems. Approximately 50% of clients are U.S. based with the remainder based in Europe and the Asia/Pacific region. S3 was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1986 and has operations in six countries: Ireland, U.S., the Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. and the U.K. For more information visit: http://www.s3group.com/onhandtv # # # All trademarks contained herein (whether registered or not) and all associated rights are recognized. |
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