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| Samsung Unveils the S3C4F60, a 65nm Single-chip Mobile TV SoC Samsung Electronics has unveiled the S3C4F60, a 65nanometer single-chip mobile TV System-on-Chip which combines a channel decoder with an RF chip. Samsung's new S3C4F60 supports all worldwide TV standards with respect to frequency range and channel bandwidth, giving consumers the ability to enjoy real-time news, sports, weather forecasts, and live entertainment anywhere. Samsung's new receiver chip supports six different mobile TV standards and complies with all related specifications of DVB-H/T (ETSI EN 300 744, EN 302 304, EN 301 192 and MBRAI); ISDB-T (ARIB-B29/ B31 1/ 3-Seg); T-DMB [Korean T-DMB, DAB (Eureka-147)]; and DAB/ DAB-IP standards. The integrated built-in multi-band RF tuner supports VHF III (174-240 MHz), UHF (470-862 MHz), and L-bands (1350-1750 MHz). Samsung's S3C4F60 also offers a significant boost in mobile performance. By achieving 180 Hz Doppler frequency performance at DVB-H 16 QAM, 8 K, 2/3 CR, and 1/4 GI, mobile TV products using the S3C4F60 can achieve perfect reception of digital TV signals, even inside high-speed trains like the TGV, ICE, or Shinkansen traveling at speeds of up to 300Km/hour. Fabricated in Samsung's advanced 65nm process and housed in a tiny 5x5mm wafer level chip scale package (WL-CSP) to minimize the footprint, Samsung's new S3C4F60 integrates into a single chip a low noise amplifier (LNA), embedded SRAM, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), PLL, CPU (ARM 7) and a low drop-out (LDO), thereby greatly reducing the number of external components needed. According to the market research firm Strategic Analytics, the mobile TV market is expected to reach 24 million units in 2008 and 133 million units by 2011, for a compounded annual growth rate of 67 percent. Samsung's S3C4F60 is scheduled for mass production in the third quarter of 2008 and samples will be available from March 2008. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |