Legend Silicon Hopes its SuperTV Reception Tech Goes Beyond Vehicles
By Rob Scott
December 7, 2011
December 7, 2011
- Fabless semiconductor company Legend Silicon will demonstrate its new automobile-based TV reception system for legacy ATSC A/53 signals called SuperTV at January’s CES in Las Vegas.
- “According to Legend Silicon COO and VP of product marketing Raj Karamchedu, the CES showing will use an FPGA-based version of SuperTV technology using four car antennas that makes possible reception of legacy ATSC from a moving vehicle,” Broadcast Engineering reports.
- The SuperTV chip will start production in six or seven months. Beyond automobiles, the company sees the technology being deployed in the U.S. “for stationary and portable DTVs, laptop computers, tablet devices and mobile phones.”
- The article points out that SuperTV may face some skepticism from the broadcast engineering community. “The mobile environment, in the presence of lots of signal multipath, is inherently very hostile to legacy ATSC reception,” said Charles Cooper, broadcast engineer with du Treil, Lundin & Rackley. “So any new antenna technology will have to overcome very high technical hurdles to make legacy ATSC a reliable mobile service.”
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