Xceive Begins Production Shipments of its All Standards, All Silicon, Single Chip, TV Tuner ICs.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- OEM Customers to Receive Xceive's Production XC3028(TM) and XC2028(TM) 7 X 7 mm Universal TV Tuner ICs

Xceive(R) Corporation (www.xceive.com) announced today that it is shipping production quantities of its latest all-TV-standards, XC3028(TM) and XC2028(TM) RF-to-baseband TV tuner ICs. These small all-standards TV tuner chips represent an enabling technology for the development of innovative products such as faster, universal television receivers offering top-of-the-line quality. The Xceive tuner products provide faster channel tuning, better signal to noise ratio and universal TV standards compatibility for high end HDTV and large screen LCD display TVs.

Xceive's XC3028 and XC2028 single-chip 7 X 7 mm, 48-pin MLF silicon tuners replace the traditional double conversion "can" tuners, yielding an order of magnitude reduction in size. The new Xceive single chip tuners provide low power consumption and up to ten times faster channel scanning than traditional TV tuners. The XC3028 tunes all digital and analog standard TV signals, whereas, the XC2028 provides universal analog TV tuning. The XC3028 and XC2028 achieve the highest level of RF-to-baseband integration on the market and their proprietary on-board DSP architecture uniquely combines all TV standards into a single tuner IC, eliminating the need for external SAW filters. With a universal TV standards architecture, Xceive's TV tuner ICs eliminate the need for OEMs to maintain multiple tuner inventories to service a global market.

"We are encouraged by the acceptance of our new XC3028 and XC2028 receiver front ends. Television equipment manufacturers are now offering some exciting innovations," said Jordan Du Val, Xceive's vice president of sales and marketing. "Xceive, with its newest receiver front ends, has now made available even more opportunities for innovation. Using our tuners, TV OEMs can design better products that tune faster and are smaller and easier to manufacture. All of these features open up the possibility of new personal computer television applications, as well as high performance, high-end television receiver products."

Technical Specifications

Performance specifications include a typical video signal to noise ratio (S/N) of 55 dB, an over all noise figure of 6 dB, and typical phase noise of -85 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz. The onboard low noise amplifier (LNA) has intermodulation distortion as measured by the third order intercept point (IIP3) of 10 dBm. This receiver has a tuning range from 42 to 862 MHz. The system settling time is 10 ms. The Xceive XC3028 is built on a 0.18 micron SiGe BiCMOS process.

The XC3028 supports all terrestrial digital and analog as well as cable TV standards. This support includes DVB-C, ISDB-T, DVB-T, ATSC, and DOCSIS digital demodulators and onboard support for the NTSC, PAL and SECAM TV standards including B/G, D/KI, L/L' and M/N standards. The XC3028 control interface is IIC serial bus compliant.

The XC3028 accepts a standard 75 Ohm antenna feed and can handle a maximum voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) of 2.5:1. The IC consumes about one watt and requires supply voltages of 1.8 and 3.3 volts. The XC3028 is a 7 X 7 X 0.85 mm MicroLeadFrame (MLF) surface mount 48-pin package.

The XC2028 is similar to the X3028 except the XC2028 offers an analog subset of the TV standards and the performance specifications differ slightly. The XC2028 has an over all noise figure of 8 dB and typical phase noise of -80 dBc/Hz at 10kHz.

Volume orders are now being accepted. Interested customers can contact Xceive marketing and sales for more information at [e-mail] or by calling 408-486-5610 or faxing 408-486-5615. Single part pricing begins at $13.50 for the XC3028 and $8.50 for the XC2028. Volume pricing is available on quotation.

About Xceive(R) Corporation

Venture-backed Xceive(R) Corporation, headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, enables fast, high-quality TV signal reception in any consumer electronics device worldwide. First to market with a one-design-fits-all-TV-standards analog and digital single chip design, Xceive's QuickTune(R) RF-to-baseband single IC (integrated circuit) TV tuners provide superior performance, low power, and smaller form factor for the development of advanced TV and PCTV applications. Xceive's universal RF-to-baseband analog and breakthrough RF-to-baseband analog and digital TV tuner ICs, eliminate the need for OEMs to maintain multiple inventories in order to service a global market. Visit www.xceive.com or email [e-mail] for more information. 408-486-5610 tel or 408-486-5615 fax.

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