Frontier Silicon drives the continuing growth of digital radio with launch of next-generation low-cost, low-power unified receiver module

Frontier Silicon drives the continuing growth of digital radio with launch of next-generation low-cost, low-power unified receiver module

Frontier Silicon has announced its latest generation of unified receiver modules. The Venice 7 has ensures the lowest levels of cost and power consumption with feature enhancements above the Venice 5 DAB solution.

Compliant with the Europe-wide Profile 1 requirements from WorldDMB and EBU, Venice 7 is designed as a drop-in replacement for existing Venice 5-based radios, instantly providing a 50 percent reduction in power consumption to enable the most power-efficient digital radios ever.

Venice 7 uses Frontier Silicon’s revolutionary new Kino 3 baseband processor chip, which utilizes the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing process technology to enable the lowest power consumption. The chip integrates sufficient memory to support DAB, DAB+, DMB-A and FM without the need for additional cost of external SDRAM memory.

The Venice 7 module includes all interfaces necessary for a fully functional radio, needing only power supply, display, keypad, audio amplifier and speakers to complete a product.