TEXAS INSTRUMENTS AND IBIQUITY ANNOUNCE AVAILABILITY OF INDUSTRY'S FIRST CHIP FOR HD RADIO™TECHNOLOGY
Programmable Baseband Chip and IBOC Digital Module Enable Fast Receiver Deployment
HOUSTON, TX and COLUMBIA, MD (August 12, 2002) -- The industry´s first digital baseband chip enabling HD Radio™ technology, formerly known as In Band On Channel (IBOC), is available today from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN). The chip handles all of the baseband processing required for HD Radio™. The new product, which combines TI´s expertise in digital signal processing and iBiquity Digital Corporation´s patented IBOC digital AM and FM technology, trademarked HD RadioTM, will enable radio manufacturers to incorporate the new digital reception technology into home and car receivers for U.S. retail launch in 2003 and for automakers in 2004. An IBOC Digital Module (IDM), incorporating TI´s solution with all the hardware and software needed to process the HD Radio™ baseband signal, is also available from iBiquity for radio manufacturers to deploy in new digital receivers. (See www.ti.com/rd/dri200anno1).