Press Release
- 2003
ATI's NXT2004™ and NXT6000™ Receiver Technologies Selected by Comtech
Digital terrestrial tuner technologies provide advanced reception capabilities
Wednesday
March 19, 2003
MARKHAM, Ontario – ATI Technologies
Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) announced today that Comtech
Technology Co. Ltd, has chosen the NXT2004™ VSB/QAM
Receiver and the NXT6000™ DVB-T Receiver for its latest
generation of digital terrestrial tuners. Based in Taiwan,
Comtech manufactures tuners, modules and converters for set-top
box (STB), cable TV and RF related products
The tuner/demodulator products are intended for terrestrial
and digital cable compatible TV, set-top box, and PC-DTV
(personal computer-digital television) products for countries
using the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) and
the DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting Project-T) standards.
“Based on strong customer demand, we deliver our digital
terrestrial tuners to the DTV, STB, and PC-DTV markets. Quality
and performance are more important than anything else,” said
Tony Hsieh, R&D manager at Comtech Technology Co., Ltd. “ATI’s
NXT6000 offers automatic transmission mode detection including
number of carriers and guard interval. NXT6000 has more features
such as full DVB-T and NorDig compliance as well as programmable
adjacent channel and adaptive co-channel interference cancellation.
We chose ATI to deliver all of these necessary features for
a high performance terrestrial tuner coupled with good technical
support. We’re glad to offer ATI’s NXT2004 and
NXT6000 in our products.”
“
We’re seeing a greater demand for DTV solutions from
companies such as Comtech to meet the need for high quality
and strong performance in tuner/receiver technology,” said
Yujing Wei, Greater China manager, marketing and business
development, DTV/Consumer Products Group, ATI Technologies
Inc. “ATI’s NXT2004 and NXT6000 receiver technologies
will enable Comtech to deliver exceptional digital terrestrial
tuner solutions for their customer base.”
The NXT2004 VSB/QAM (vestigial side band/quadrature amplitude
modulation) Receiver is designed for a variety of applications
including off-air and digital cable television receivers,
set-top boxes, PCDTV and datacast applications where cost,
low power and industry leading performance are a must. The
NXT2004 VSB/QAM Demodulator is configurable to work in either
the ATSC compliant 8 VSB mode for terrestrial broadcasting
or in the ITU-J.83B/SCTE DVS-031 compliant 64 QAM or 256
QAM modes.
The NXT6000 COFDM (code orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing)
Demodulator and FEC (forward error correction) IC is a highly
integrated solution for digital terrestrial receiver applications.
This single-chip receiver includes a COFDM Demodulator together
with Viterbi and Reed Solomon Forward Error Correction and
an integrated 10 Bit A/D converter. The NXT6000 not only
supports all modes of the DVB-T standards as defined by ETS
300 744, but also meets the mandatory requirements of the
NorDig Receiver Specification that defines a set of requirements
for high-performance terrestrial receiver solutions.
ATI Technologies will exhibit its DTV technologies on March
21-23 at China Cable Broadcasting Network 2003 at booth #3606
in Hall 3 of the China International Exhibition Center, Beijing,
China.
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2003 ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI and ATI
product and product feature names are trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and product
names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective owners. Features, pricing, availability and specifications
are subject to change without notice.
About Comtech Technology Co., Ltd.
Comtech Technology Co., Ltd. is a Taiwan-based company that has manufactured
a variety of tuners, modules or converters for STB, cable TV and RF related
products since its foundation in 1993 and has moved most of its production
lines to mainland China recently. For more information, please access www.comtech-tw.com.tw
About
ATI Technolgies
ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the design
and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics and digital
media silicon solutions. An industry pioneer since 1985,
ATI is the world’s foremost visual processor unit (GPU) provider and is
dedicated to deliver leading-edge performance solutions for the full range of
PC and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation, set-top and digital television,
game console and handheld markets. With 2002 revenues in excess of US $1 billion,
ATI has more than 1,900 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI common
shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ATY).
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