Entropic Announces Industry's Lowest Power, Smallest Size and Highest Performance Digital Channel Stacking Switch (dCSS) ICs ...
April 21 2014 - 8:00AM
Building on its market leadership in the global Channel Stacking
Switch (CSS) industry with over 100-million CSS chips deployed
worldwide, Entropic (Nasdaq:ENTR), a world leader in semiconductor
solutions for the connected home, today announced its latest
digital Channel Stacking Switch (dCSS) and Band Translation
integrated circuit (IC) family, the EN5500-series.
The EN5500-series is comprised of three configurations
supporting Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) operator configurations
worldwide:
- EN5500, a six-input (250 – 2350 MHz), one-output, CSS-only
IC;
- EN5510, a seven-input (250 – 2350 MHz), three-output, CSS and
dual-band/triple-band translation IC; and
- EN5520, a four-input (250 – 2350 MHz), two-output, CSS and
legacy IC.
Entropic's use of advanced mixed-signal technology, including
state-of-the-art multi GS/s broadband ADCs, DACs, and PLLs, coupled
with efficient multirate DSP architectures for digital
channelization and stacking, has enabled the Company to develop a
family of highly-integrated dCSS solutions, with the world's lowest
power, most cost-optimized and smallest form factor when compared
to competitive ODU products.
Key Benefits
Entropic's EN5500-series offers the following benefits:
- Lowest Power ODU IC: Entropic's
second-generation dCSS solutions offer breakthrough low power
dissipation at approximately one-half the power of current
competitive offerings and one-fourth the power of previous dCSS
Gen1 solutions. Consequently, the EN5500-series can be directly
powered from set-top boxes eliminating the need for costly external
power inserters.
- A Cost-Optimized System Approach: The
highly-integrated solutions provide the industry's smallest
easy-to-assemble QFN packages with integrated microcontroller, FSK,
DiSEqC, SPI and I2C support, which minimize the external Bill of
Materials (BoM) to enable cost-effective ODU implementations by
OEMs.
- Leading-Edge Performance: The EN5500 product
family delivers best-in-class Modulated Error Ratio (MER)
performance under all scenarios. Proprietary mixed-signal
calibration algorithms, crosstalk and spur mitigation techniques
ensure reliable performance over a broad range of operating
conditions, and as a result, provides immunity to process, voltage
and temperature variance.
- Enhanced User Bands: The EN5500-series
supports 24 user bands in response to tier-one DBS operators'
requirements to support more tuner/demodulators as they migrate to
gateway/client architectures. Additionally, operators can rapidly
deploy single-wire hospitality and multi-dwelling unit (MDU)
implementations that have high tuner count installation
requirements.
"The introduction of Entropic's EN5500-series dCSS product line
underscores our commitment and investment in the global DBS market.
As the market leader of single-wire DBS technology, with more than
100-million CSS chips deployed worldwide, no other company can
claim to have implemented or understand the challenges associated
with deploying operator-class single-wire applications like
Entropic," said Matt Rhodes, senior vice president, Global
Marketing, Entropic. "We believe with our superior execution, low
power and low cost, the EN5500-series is a single-wire ODU
game-changer, enabling operators to achieve long-term reliability
and cost savings."
Product Availability
Entropic is currently sampling the EN5500, EN5510 and
EN5520.
For more information on Entropic's EN5500-series, visit
Entropic's website.
About Entropic
Entropic™ (Nasdaq:ENTR) is a world leader in semiconductor
solutions for the connected home. The Company transforms how
traditional HDTV broadcast and IP-based streaming video content is
seamlessly, reliably, and securely delivered, processed, and
distributed into and throughout the home. Entropic's
next-generation Set-top Box (STB) System-on-a-Chip (SoC) and
Connectivity solutions enable Pay-TV operators to offer consumers
more captivating whole-home entertainment experiences by
transforming the way digital entertainment is delivered, connected
and consumed – in the home and on the go. For more information,
please visit Entropic at: www.entropic.com, read our blog Entropic
Topics, or get social with us at @Entropic_News, or on Facebook,
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Forward Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly
historical in nature constitute "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements
regarding Entropic's dCSS technology, its related prospects and its
role in the future of connected home entertainment. Such
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause Entropic's actual
results to be materially different from historical results or from
any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. These factors include, but are not limited to,
competition, risks associated with Entropic dependence on a limited
number of customers and suppliers, technology risks, the risk that
the market for HD video and multimedia content delivery solutions
may not develop as Entropic anticipates and other factors discussed
in the "Risk Factors" section of Entropic's Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. All forward-looking
statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary
statement. Entropic is providing this information as of the date of
this release and does not undertake any obligation to update any
forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise.
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CONTACT: Entropic Investor Contact:
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+1 858-768-3852
debra.hart@entropic.com
Entropic Media/Industry Analyst Contact:
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+1 858-768-3827
chris.fallon@entropic.com
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