Teridian named emerging company of the year by Frost & Sullivan
(Business News, 03 Mar 2008 )
Based on its recent analysis of the set-top box (STB) semiconductor rmarket, Frost & Sullivan presented Teridian Semiconductor Corporation with the 2007 Global Set-Top Box Semiconductors Emerging Company of the Year Award.
This Award recognizes Teridian’s focus on technological innovation based on customer requirements and its growing presence in the STB IC market. Around 35 percent of Teridian’s annual revenues are reinvested in R&D. This includes innovative IC developments that will help in serving customers across a wide variety of applications.
Currently, the company’s product line for STBs include smart card readers for conditional access to programming content (80xx family), modems for two-way communication with the set-top box (19xx, 29xx, and 1822 families), Ethernet devices (21x3 and 8430 families) for IP Video applications, and universal audio/video switches (5xxx family).
“Teridian’s 80xx series of smart card readers offer the industry’s broadest portfolio for STB conditional access, with benefits of low power and high signal integrity,” says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Jayalakshmi Janakiraman. “The products are also available with power down options that are not usually found in other STB conditional access solutions.”
The company’s modem portfolio is equally unique. With the introduction of the world’s first single package Si DAA (1822) and its counterpart for soft modem applications, Teridian is the only IC provider to offer a single passive bill-of-materials to meet worldwide requirements. Alternative solutions require component value changes or even passive circuit changes for their device to be deployed in multiple countries, resulting in additional costs for the OEM.
Further, Teridian offers the world’s smallest Ethernet physical layer interface (2123). Both the IC’s compact design and reduced surrounding passive circuitry save as much as 50 percent costs over alternative solutions. Teridian’s Ethernet Media Offload Controller (8430) specifically addresses the quality-of-delivery requirements of IP Video and other mixed media Ethernet applications.
