Coaxial Cable Television Becomes First All-Digital System in North America

By Brian - 05/13/2009 4:58:42 PM

With all the ruckus about the shift towards the digital age, Coaxial Cable has announced that they have successfully completed their installation of their Challenger all-digital platform today. What makes this newsworthy is it is believed they are the first independent cable operator in North America to completely eliminate analog programming services and deliver an ...

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MIPS32 Processor Cores to Power DTV and Set-Top box SoC designs

By Brian - 04/27/2009 4:45:27 PM

With the coming of Digital TV fast approaching, the focus these days has been on the available resources like set-top boxes to make sure they don’t encounter problems during the transition period. Haier (Beijing) IC Design Co. is leveraging high-performance, low-power MIPS32 processor cores to power DTV and set-top box (STB) SoC designs. The company ...

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