Alvand Technologies Launches New Family of Humming-B(TM) DVB-H Tuner Optimized for System-on-a-Chip Integration

Alvand Technologies, the award-winning leader in high-performance analog and RF silicon solutions for wireless and wired communications, today announced the launch of its new Humming-B™ family of tuners for the mobile TV standard Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H). Alvand’s ALV-DVBH1 tuner is highly optimized for system-on-a-chip integration, and is designed to support multiple DVB-H bands.

Mobile TV is an emerging application that enables consumers to receive digital television service on mobile devices such as the cellular phone and personal digital assistant (PDA). Digital Video Broadcast–Handheld (DVB-H) is an industry standard that allows the digital broadcasting of high-quality video signals wirelessly and cost effectively, while ensuring low battery consumption. The market for mobile TV is expected to experience strong growth over the coming decade. Frost & Sullivan expects the market for mobile TV to grow at an explosive rate to $8 billion by 2011. A number of leading service providers have launched DVB-H service in multiple regions throughout the world.

The ALV-DVBH1 tuner from Alvand Technologies features significantly lower power consumption, smaller silicon die size, higher component integration levels and improved dynamic range performance. This translates into enhanced video quality, minimizing interference and longer battery life for the end user. The new Humming-B family of DVB-H products leverages Alvand’s unmatched analog expertise in high-performance video front ends for high-definition TV (HDTV) and broad portfolio of intellectual property in high-speed analog design.

“Our new Humming-B family of DVB-H tuners represents significant progress in our growth strategy and transition from being a pure-IP provider to being a leading vendor of high-quality analog products,” said Mansour Keramat, president and co-founder of Alvand Technologies. “Our new DVB-H tuner product is already receiving strong interests from partners and customers.”

The ALV-DVBH1 tuner is compatible with industry-leading demodulators, and enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of mobile devices to develop cost-effective, low-power mobile TV products with best-in-class video quality.

About Alvand Technologies

Alvand Technologies is an award-winning fabless semiconductor company that specializes in high-performance, high-speed analog and RF silicon solutions for wireless and wired communications. The company’s products and technologies enable advanced communications, networking and consumer applications such as Mobile TV (DVB-H), high-definition television (HDTV) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

The company was founded by a team of seasoned analog and RF technologists with extensive experience in high-performance analog circuitry, and with a successful track record of delivering high-quality products in volume production. For more information about products and technologies from Alvand Technologies, visit www.alvandtech.com.

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