Company: Entropic Communications (RF Magic)
San Diego, California
www.entropic.com

Jazz Process Chosen: SBC35 (0.35µm SiGe BiCMOS)

Product: RF4000 - DVB-T Silicon Tuner

Description: Entropic (RF Magic) has been shipping production RF ICs manufactured by Jazz since 2003 starting with its RF2000/RF3000 transceiver chipset for Broadband Wireless Access applications. More recently, the company has been shipping volume production of its RF5000 Band Translation Switch IC for single cable satellite outdoor units, and its RF4000 DVB-T silicon tuner.

Target: Entropic (RF Magic) offers RF Systems on a Chip ICs for broadband consumer applications.

"We wanted a foundry partner who was strategically focused on RF silicon process technologies. As an example, we used Jazz's specialized process platform for the RF4000 digital terrestrial silicon tuner to develop the world's most advanced and highly integrated digital television tuner IC. In addition to achieving higher levels of performance, Jazz process technology gave us the ability to achieve smaller die size by scaling down the analog portion of the chip using high-density passive components, which is typically a requirement for RF-based products."
-- Mark Foley, former CEO, RF Magic

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