Jazz Semiconductor and Entropic Communications Announce Volume Production of Entropic’s EN4020 Multi Mode Hybrid Silicon Tuner

The EN4020 is a fully integrated CMOS silicon tuner with support for multiple analog and digital standards for terrestrial and cable applications, packaged as a small form factor single-chip solution. The EN4020 multi-mode silicon tuner supports worldwide standards making it ideal for high volume can tuners as well as high performance digital TV (DTV) and cable/terrestrial set-top box (STB) products. Building on the success of Entropic’s first generation tuner solutions, the EN4020 was the first to offer hybrid functionality in a fully integrated CMOS design, eliminating the need, cost and footprint of two tuner modules. In addition, the EN4020’s multi-mode capability allows designers to develop a single hardware variant for worldwide operation, simplifying design complexity and drastically lowering development costs. Entropic’s innovative design on the EN4020 allows simple software configurability for different market applications and operating environments. In addition, the EN4020 has proven performance advantages in the emerging digital cable (DVB-C) networks where excessive interference from legacy analog and terrestrial signal leakage into the cable can cause performance limitations, degrading picture quality for the end user. The high level of integration on the EN4020 contains all front-end functions and requires no external SAW filters or amplifiers…

EN4020 Multi-Mode Silicon Tuner
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