NXP demos live reception of DRM, DAB and HD radio in India

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has announced successful completion of live reception of all three major terrestrial digital radio standards – DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale), DAB and HD Radio – in a car. The live public demo, which took place at the Broadcast Engineering Society (BES EXPO 2013) event in New Delhi, India, ahead of the country’s national roll-out of DRM, was achieved using NXP’s innovative software-defined multi-standard co-processor for automotive terrestrial digital radio reception. NXP’s R&D center in Bangalore, India played a key role in integrating DRM decoder functionality into the company’s automotive terrestrial digital radio solution to create a truly multi-standard chipset that can be used in markets all around the world. It enables manufacturers to achieve significant economies of scale by having just one global hardware platform for the three main terrestrial digital radio standards. Following a series of comprehensive field trials to ensure the solution met the requirements of the Indian market, NXP’s demonstration of live DRM reception in a car at BES confirmed the company’s leadership in the automotive digital radio market. The demo was conducted in cooperation with All India Radio (AIR), the national broadcaster of India and operator of one of the largest radio networks in the world. At the event, NXP’s DRM demo car generated huge interest and was vis...