Broadcom Announces Full-Band Capture Innovation; Delivers Breakthrough Digital Tuning for Satellite TV

Broadcom Announces Full-Band Capture Innovation; Delivers Breakthrough Digital Tuning for Satellite TV

Full-Band Capture Technology Simplifies Design while Lowering Overall System Cost and Power Requirements

News Highlights:

- Broadcom's Full-Band Capture (FBC) technology enables unprecedented bandwidth scalability and flexibility, resulting in more efficient distribution of video streams and IP services to connected devices in the digital home ecosystem.

- FBC functionality replaces multiple discrete tuners with one system-on-a-chip (SoC) for simpler, smaller, faster and lower power designs.

- Coupled with Broadcom's FastRTV®, FBC technology will enable consumers to experience faster channel change, regardless of frequency.

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBC -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced its Full-Band Capture digital tuning technology enabling design efficiency and scalable bandwidth to the satellite TV market. Broadcom's new 40nm satellite set-top box (STB) solution, the BCM4528 FBC Multi Demodulator SoC, dramatically reduces overall system cost and power in the home. Visit Broadcom @ IBC for more news.

Technology Advantages:

-- Broadcom's FBC technology digitizes the entire 950-2150 MHz spectrum,
replacing multiple discrete tuners with only one FBC chip. Advantages
include:
-- Bandwidth deployment flexibility: any demodulator can tune to any
frequency removing wideband "block" tuner restrictions for a more
efficient distribution of video streams and IP services.
-- Reduced power consumption: satellite systems realize more than 50
percent reduction in power savings.
-- Faster channel change: FastRTV® channel change technology paired
with FBC provides quick channel change regardless of frequency.
-- Less complexity: achieves more than 65 percent reduction in the
number of connections between front-end and back-end devices.
-- Lower system cost: replaces up to eight satellite chips resulting in
lower bill-of-materials (BOM).
-- Broadcom's 40nm BCM4528 is the industry's first fully integrated
satellite solution to support FBC technology and is now shipping to
customers.

Quotes:

Dan Marotta, EVP & GM, Broadband Communications Group, Broadcom

"Extending Full-Band Capture to our industry-leading satellite products paves the way for more advanced satellite receivers that lower deployment cost and reduce power consumption. Coupled with Broadcom's FastRTV technology, SBC technology allows operators to benefit from more efficient use of spectrum while consumers experience an even faster channel change."

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About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

Broadcom®, the pulse logo, Connecting everything®, the Connecting everything logo and FastRTV® are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

Contacts

Media Relations Investor Relations
Dana Brzozkiewicz Chris Zegarelli
Public Relations Manager Director, Investor Relations
949-926-6367 949-926-7567
danabrz@broadcom.com czegarel@broadcom.com

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