Most highly integrated car tuner IC enables lowest system cost

Most highly integrated car tuner IC enables lowest system cost

Offered as the industry’s most highly integrated car radio tuner IC family — incorporating the entire radio tuner solution from antenna input to audio output in a single CMOS IC — the Si475x AM/FM radio ICs family enables according to the company, the lowest system cost for the midrange automotive radio market. Housed in a 5 x 5-mm 32-pin QFN package, each family member eliminates the need for several costly external components, dropping the car radio tuner bill of materials by up to 50% and reducing the external component count by up to 70%.

The Si475x tuner ICs support worldwide radio band requirements including AM, FM, FM radio data system (RDS), long wave (LW) and short wave (SW), giving car radio developers the flexibility to support a variety of global market requirements with a single design. According to the company, the tuner family provides unrivaled performance for cost-sensitive automotive radio designs in the high-growth “BRIC” (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) markets. The tuners incorporate Silicon Labs’ patented RDS decoding technology. ($8.18 ea/10,000; Si4757LNA-A-EVB evaluation board, $450 — available now.)

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