A couple of years ago, Motorola announced a new whiz-bang, all-digital FM radio receiver chip. I've searched Moto's Web site(s) a couple of times and can't find any trace of info about this. Has anyone seen anything about it? Or did it turn out to be vaporware?
If you're not tied with Motorola, Philips has several different chips for your specs.
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Are you possibly refering to the SYMPHONY chipset? It's on the Freescale site.
Mark
That looks like it. Thanks.
So does anyone know whether the chipset actually exists? Can I buy a product containing it?
Symphony was announced with great fanfare, but doesn't seem to have gone anywhere. I was at one time interested in trying to design it into a product (a USB radio, similar to what is now available as the RadioShark), but Motorola didn't want to talk to anyone that wasn't going to buy half a million units.
That's exactly my next question to attack. I'm looking for a solution to a particularly nasty reception problem and would like to take something for a test drive.
Hello Everett,
Just make sure you test drive something that is going to be around for a long enough time. I have seen too many 'panacea chips' vanish fast. Look at Asia, too. Maybe open a few modern stereos and see which chips are in their tuners.
My mantra: If in doubt, roll your own. When something is single-sourced my doubt level increases a bit. It is amazing how little a discrete solution costs these days as long as there are no fancy production routines such as alignment. I have even shunned some quite ubiquitous PWM chips for cost reasons.
Regards, Joerg
I got some info regarding the Symphony chip set -- it's not available even though it shows on Freescale's Web site. Apparently, it never attracted a market and has been dropped.
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