1. Evolution of digital radios, and future
trends in receiver technologies
Carsten Friedrich
June 2012
2. Frontier Silicon is the leading chip-set provider for
digital radio
Market leader in Digital
Radio solutions (75% share
of in-home digital receivers)
Pioneer in Internet and Addressing home audio,
Hybrid Radio with award automotive; developing
winning technology solutions for mobile
4th generation chip currently
in development
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3. For ten years, we have supplied the world’s leading
audio brands – often on an exclusive basis
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4. Modern Radios are digital
• Digital Radios …
– … can receive FM too
– … are future proof
– … have a better sound than pure FM radios
– … offer more features than pure FM Radios
– … are easier to use than pure FM Radios
– … are high value radios anyway compare to pure FM Radios
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10. Radios with colour screens and enhanced user
interfaces, enabling easier content access
• Colour touch-screen allows
user to tap to select and
swipe to change views
• Broadcasters are making
increasing use of visual
functionality
• Allows the industry to follow this
trend and introduce new
technologies which become
• Colour touch-screen – for more mainstream
Slideshow either broadcast
or via RadioVIS (IP)
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11. Digital radios will provide the ability to pause, rewind
and record, and with EPG data
Digital Radio with EPG
(Electronic Program Guide) and Record
• Functionality which is familiar to
consumers from digital TV will also
become available on digital radio
devices
Record DAB/FM radio
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12. With hybrid radio (broadcast plus IP), users will be
able to receive an enhanced listening experience
• Radio TAG
• Mechanism to interact with broadcast service
• Example uses of RadioTAG
RadioTAG (via IP)
New song Listen later Advertiser
• Hear new song on radio • Listening to programme is • Hear ad on radio / see
interrupted visual display
• Hit Tag button
• Tag and listen later • Tag to interact
- for info
- access more information
- to add to own playlist
- register interest
- to share with friends
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13. Connectivity to become a standard feature within
products
• Cost of adding wireless
technology to CE products fast
reducing
• Increasing number of products
with wireless connectivity
• Alternate platform to colour
radios
- Reuse display from smartphone /
tablet
Wireless (wifi /
Bluetooth) link • Availability of connectivity within
devices provides platform for
Hybrid Radio
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14. Next Generation Radios - A shift to multimedia
platforms rather than audio-centric devices
Key Features of Next Generation radios
include :
• Display – better / larger displays to show
more contents
• Memory - Built-in memory for data caching
applications (pause/rewind)
• Connectivity – for interfacing with smart
phones / tablets, with Apps to enable
advanced features
• Interactivity – support for further listener –
broadcaster interaction (via IP backchannels)
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15. Thank you
Carsten Friedrich
Automotive Marketing Manager, Frontier Silicon
Carsten.Friedrich@frontier-silicon.com
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Notas del editor
Modern radios need to be digital – FS sees this as the basis for introducing new technologies.Digital radios can already do much more for the consumer and allow to go even further in the evolution.But first we should put an eye on what we have already in the market today.
Simple portable radios, mono speaker, battery and AC powered. From the look there is no much difference to standard FM only radios. Simple does not mean cheap, but cost sensitive. Such radio usage is well known and do not differ from past experience.
Dockers for persons who like to share their music with others if they want or not.Dockers are different to typical radios. They allow sharing content. In fact they are the evolution of cassette player or CD player.
Battery and solar powered radio are enabled through the technology trends to optimize power consumption.Optimization of power consumption is an important topic today and the industry takes care on this trend.
Portable radios allow listening in locations and under conditions which are not always typical for a radio. Here are some examples of products which allow radio listening in different ways than before (at the Laptop, with the smart phone).
Terrestrial digital radio runs into all kinds of audio systems. A lot of streaming solutions offer such reception in addition.The user has the impression that otherwise the system is not complete.As such solutions are „real“ investements the user likes to get a future proof radio solution.