KeyStone's Innovative FM/DAB/DAB+ Single-Chip Receiver IC, Tsunami, Delivers Industry's Highest-Integration, Lowest-Power Consumption, and Most-Affordable Turn-Key Solutions for Home and Mobile Digital Audio Broadcasting Applications

KeyStone Semiconductor Corp., a leading fabless semiconductor developer of advanced digital radio technologies today announced that its single-chip receiver IC, Tsunami, is published at the prestigious 2010 European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) in Seville, Spain. Tsunami is the first-ever IC available to the consumer electronics industry that focuses on high-integration, low-power, and low-cost solutions for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) turn-key products.

Tsunami KSW8290 is implemented in CMOS process and has unprecedentedly integrated the entire FM/DAB/DAB+ receiver systems including Radio Frequency (RF) receiver, channel demodulator, Digital Signal Processor (dsp), advanced audio decoder, stereo DAC, battery detector, memory cell, etc. onto a single chip. This high integration leaves no costly external components such as VCXO, SDRAM, Flash Memory, MCU, etc., on the module, which significantly reduces the form-factor while lowering the overall solution cost.

Consuming only 150 mW on the entire module and housed in a compact 0.8 cm x 1.1 cm BGA package, KSW8290 delivers the consumers electronics industry's first and only FM/DAB/DAB+ solutions with the least power consumption for portable consumer electronics applications. Measured at 2.0 cm x 2.0 cm or smaller for slave-mode FM/DAB/DAB+ operations, Tsunami module is merely 20% of the leading competitor's module size, making Tsunami the best candidate for form-factor and power-conscious devices.

KSW8290 is also the first and only FM/DAB/DAB+ receiver IC that passes stringent Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) BS EN 55022: 2006 and BS EN 55013: 2001 tests to allow OEMs directly connecting coaxial cable to Tsunami modules. It permits Tsunami modules to share the same source antenna with TV in a set top box and to share the same FM antenna in a vehicle to reduce cost and installation complexity.