AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 9, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR), a leading provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home networking and entertainment, and NXP Semiconductors today announced that they will demonstrate a MoCA(r) (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) enabled, high-performance, set-top box (STB) reference design for the satellite, cable and IP STB markets at the International Broadcasters Convention (IBC) 2009 in Amsterdam. Through their ongoing collaboration, NXP and Entropic are enabling STB OEMs and service providers to bring complete home networked STB solutions to market faster, with lower development costs and ultra-low power consumption.
The joint reference design will feature NXP's newly unveiled PNX847x/8x/9x, the world's first family of fully integrated 45-nm STB system-on-chip (SoC) platform incorporating multi-channel broadcast receivers, and Entropic's third-generation MoCA 1.1-compliant EN251x single-chip network controller solution. Entropic and NXP will be showcasing a MoCA-enabled DVR reference design, which enables multi-room DVR functionality, allowing consumers to watch content stored on a single digital video recorder from any room in the house. The reference design will take full advantage of MoCA, the standard for home entertainment networking using existing coaxial cable in the home, to enhance the end user's connected home networking and HD video entertainment experience.
"By working with Entropic and leveraging their experience in delivering MoCA-enabled home network solutions, we have created a robust silicon solution that we believe should transform the economics of developing STBs globally," said Lewis Brewster, senior vice president and general manager, set-top box business line, NXP Semiconductors. "Building on our long-standing collaboration, NXP and Entropic are enabling OEMs and service providers to move to the forefront by rapidly and cost-effectively deploying high-performance, low-power set-top boxes that are fundamentally changing the way end users consume multimedia."
Leveraging the benefits of the MoCA home network, consumers can stream high-definition programming from a DVR STB to multiple client STBs in other rooms. By taking advantage of up to 175 Mbps of application layer throughout, 16 node support, parameterized quality of service (PQoS) and remote network diagnostic capability of the MoCA 1.1 standard, the reference design will provide for the bandwidth and processing speeds required to handle multiple streams of high-definition video in addition to other network traffic and personal content sharing, such as gaming, music streaming, photographs and other digital content.
"Consumer demand for multi-room DVR, content sharing and over-the-top services on their home network will continue to drive the need for more bandwidth throughout the home," said Vinay Gokhale, senior vice president, marketing and business development, Entropic. "A significant goal of our technology collaboration with NXP is to capitalize on each other's core capabilities and further leverage our combined experience and international competitiveness in delivering fully optimized home networking solutions to service providers and operators around the world."
The multi-room DVR reference design from NXP and Entropic features:
* Advanced Superscalar CPU to manage high-bandwidth, multi-room DVR streaming: PNX847x/8x/9x provides a powerful applications processor platform to enable multi-client, high bit-rate streaming without degrading performance of DVR STB hosted applications. * An enhanced viewer experience through web-based content and applications: PNX847x/8x/9x is equipped with an ARM Cortex A9 CPU, a POWERVR 3D GPU and flexible content decoding engines to enrich the TV viewer experience with online VOD programming and internet based applications. * Field Proven, Robust Performance: Entropic's EN251x provides the ideal connectivity solution to ensure robust, high QoS delivery of internet content across the home network to the STB, enabling future convergence of high-bandwidth, personal content applications without compromising the delivery of premium service offerings. * Power Efficiency: NXP's innovative power management architecture is specifically designed to maximize STB energy efficiency. Bringing together NXP's advanced power control with Entropic's low- power MoCA interface IC provides unmatched power efficiency and enables system solutions that facilitate compliance with stringent ENERGY STAR(r) requirements.
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP is a leading semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in Europe, the company has about 29,000 employees working in more than 30 countries and posted sales of USD 5.4 billion (including the Mobile & Personal business) in 2008. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, mobile phones, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.
About Entropic Communications
Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR) is a leading fabless semiconductor company that is engineering the future of connected home networking and entertainment by providing next-generation silicon and software technologies to the world's leading Cable, Telco and Satellite service providers, OEM's and consumer electronic manufacturers. As a co-founder of MoCA, multimedia over coax alliance, Entropic pioneered and continues to evolve the way high-definition television-quality video and other multimedia & digital content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought into and delivered throughout the home. For more information, visit Entropic at www.entropic.com.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of NXP and Entropic and certain plans and objectives of NXP and Entropic with respect to these items. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute "forward-looking statements." Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the anticipated benefits resulting from the collaboration between NXP and Entropic. 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, the effects of competition; Entropic's dependence on a limited number of service providers and customers; the ability of NXP and Entropic to successfully collaborate and the ability of each of them to introduce new and enhanced products on a timely basis; the risk that the market for high-definition television-quality video and multimedia content delivery solutions may not develop as anticipated; the effect of intellectual property rights claims; and other factors discussed in the NXP's SEC filings and the "Risk Factors" section of Entropic's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2009. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. NXP and Entropic are providing this information as of the date of this release and do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.