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Digital Radio Comes Back to Earth
FCC to evaluate IBOC standard
By Steven Fyffe -- Electronic News, 10/15/2001


Texas Instruments Inc. is thinking big.

"Today we have AM and FM radio," said Naresh Coppisetti, business manager for digital radio at TI. "Just like cell phones and cameras all that is going digital. The move from analog to digital transmission must happen. We know that. If you agree with that, then why not be involved early in the transition?

"More than 300 million radios are sold each year worldwide. It is the second or third largest volume market after cell phones," he said
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TI is also exploring the possibilities of combining a portable digital radio with an MP3 player, Coppisetti said.

"A digital walkman would be very easy," he said. "MP3 decoding can be done on the same chip as the baseband. We think that the convergence of MP3 and DAB is going to be a powerful proposition for consumers. You have MP3 instead of a cassette, and you can record DAB music onto a flash card.

"TI is very uniquely positioned in this convergence because of the programmable nature of our baseband processor," he said.

Power consumption is the major technical hurdle to creating the all-in-one digital walkman, Coppisetti said. "Our target is to run the walkman on two AA batteries," he said.

Combined MP3, DAB walkman products should hit the market in the second half of next year, Coppisetti said


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