Xceive and Trident Microsystems Partner to Deliver The Highest Integrated USB Bus-Powered TV Tuner.SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SHENZHEN, China -- Xceive Corporation, developer of the world's first fully integrated multi-standard RF-to-baseband transceiver ICs (semiconductor) for TVs, PC TVs and set-top boxes, today announced its partnership with Trident Microsystems to design the highest integrated USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. Bus-powered TV reference board. Three different versions have been developed to address the analog only, hybrid DVB-T See DVB. , and hybrid ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) An international digital television (DTV) standard adopted by the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Argentina. markets. The outcome of the design partnership will be a reduction in chip count by half for both analog and hybrid USB designs. Typical analog USB TV tuners require a minimum of four chips, which include the tuner, USB interface, audio and video decoder. With the Xceive-Trident partnership, the number of chips is reduced to two and powered only by the USB port. For hybrid (analog and digital tuning capabilities) USB TV tuners the typical number of chips is cut in half to three chips. Thus, this reference design board enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to produce smaller, more cost-effective TV products that meet global standards including analog TV stereo sound and FM radio capabilities. "Trident welcomed the opportunity to partner with Xceive because Xceive's tuner IC is the highest integrated solution on the market today and the only such chip to be ISF-certified," said James Fan, director of VCT VCT Voluntary Counseling and Testing VCT Vinyl Composition Tile VCT Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO Country code) VCT Venture Capital Trust (UK fiscal status) , Trident. "We are pleased to partner with Xceive to provide this high-performance, USB TV dongle The term was originally slang for a "hardware key." Today, the term is often used to refer to any small adapter that has a short cable with connectors at both ends. See hardware key and PC Card dongle. to customers who seek the capabilities of this level of technology." The high-performance USB TV tuner includes Xceive's silicon tuners - XC3028 and XC2028. These IC tuners support all worldwide analog TV, digital TV terrestrial and cable signal standards. Further, Xceive's tuner is the only tuner that has received the ISF ISF - Information Systems Factory certification from the Image Science Foundation Research Lab. This reference design also will feature Trident's TM6010, a USB AV decoder that provides high-quality, cost-effective solutions for both analog and digital TV. The TM6010 is the first single chip USB AV decoder which support global analog TV audio standards for the USB TV application. "We are pleased to have created another industry first with this USB bus-powered TV tuner that includes TV Stereo Sound," said Alvin Wong, vice president of marketing, Xceive. "Xceive's tuner is the highest integrated tuner in the world. That, combined with Trident's highest integrated USB A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Refers to equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and decoder, provides a very powerful offering, which we are pleased to bring to market." About Xceive Corporation Venture-backed Xceive[R] Corporation, headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., 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 integrated circuit (IC) TV tuners provide superior performance, low power, and smaller form factor for the development of advanced TV and PC-TV applications. Xceive's universal RF-to-baseband analog - and breakthrough RF-to-baseband analog and digital - TV tuner ICs reduce the need for OEMs to maintain multiple inventories in order to service a global market. Visit www.xceive.com, e-mail info@xceive.com, call 408-486-5610 or fax 408-486-5615 for more information. TRADEMARKS: Xceive ClearView, Quick-TuneXC2028 and XC3028 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Xceive Corporation. About Trident Microsystems Founded in 1987, Trident Microsystems, Inc. designs, develops and markets digital television System-on-chip (SOC) solutions for the rapidly growing consumer electronic markets in digital flat CRT TV, LCD TV, PDP (1) (Plasma Display Panel) See plasma display. (2) (Policy Decision Point) See COPS and XACML. (3) (Programmed Data P TV, Micro Display Projection TV, AV Notebook PC, and especially High Definition TV (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 ). With headquarter head·quar·ter v. head·quar·tered, head·quar·ter·ing, head·quar·ters Usage Problem v.tr. To provide with headquarters: in Sunnyvale, California, the company also has sales, support, and development centers in Shanghai, China; Shenzhen, China; and Tokyo, Japan. The company trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "TRID TRID Training Requirement Identification Display TRID Transaction Identifier TRID Trident Display ." For further information please visit http://www.tridentmicro.com. |
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