XC4000 Hybrid Silicon Tuner Chip for Television and PC-TV - Xceive Corporation

Xceive Corporation announced the XC4000 integrated hybrid silicon tuner chip for terrestrial television and PC-TV markets. The XC4000 hybrid silicon tuner IC meets the requirements for next generation PC-TVs by providing can tuner performance to the PC-TV market surpassing previous silicon tuner standards while offering value/performance options to both the maturing flat panel television market and the established volume TV markets. The XC4000 signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) and phase noise match can tuner performance while providing a lower noise figure and higher AGC range, resulting in higher quality video image and a better end-user experience.

The XC4000 hybrid silicon tuner IC is housed in an ultra-small (7mm x 7mm) 48-pin QFN package. It integrates all the SAW filters and video/audio demodulation in order to achieve a low BOM cost. The architecture and technology minimizes tuner-to-tuner and channel-to-channel performance variations and achieves very tight tolerances resulting in reduced customer product returns. With its on-board DSP controller, the tuner supports worldwide television standards including PAL, NTSC, DVBT, ATSC, and QAM64 catering to the needs of the global TV and PC-TV market.

Jean-Louis Bories, president and CEO of Xceive Corporation, said:

The addition of the XC4000 to Xceive's family of products fills an important market need in the TV and PC-TV space by providing carefully selected performance levels to these value conscious applications…

The XC4000 meets and exceeds all performance measurements of the typical premium can tuner with the added features of an ultra-small footprint, reliability, and unique functionality…

The XC4000 hybrid silicon tuner chip delivers Xceive's QuickTune technology, providing ultra fast per channel signal detection that allows for a complete channel scan of more than 100 channels in less than two seconds. ChannelVista is Xceive's "virtual tuner" technology that provides multiple- picture-in-picture (PIP) capabilities allowing the viewer to watch up to 12 video channels simultaneously or to have their favorite channel "list" visualized on screen easing their channel selection.

The XC4000 is both pin and BOM compatible with Xceive's XC3000 and XC2000 series of RF-to-broadband tuners. This allows existing Xceive customers to migrate seamlessly to the XC4000 to achieve increased performance by simply using the XC4000 in the existing XC3000/XC2000 family designs.

Samples of the XC4000 hybrid silicon tuner chip are available now. Volume quantity will be available in Q3 this year.

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