Atmel Broadcast Radio User Manual

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Atmel offers highly integrated and high
performance solutions for AM/FM car
radio front ends that cover all frequen-
cy bands world-wide. All Atmel front-
end solutions provide support for an
optimized manufacturing process
(ATA= automated tuner alignment). 

Along with the ICs' high integration
level, this enables you to design cost-
optimized solutions.

The so called DIF (digital IF) architec-
ture is currently a basic architectural
approach for car media applications.
As AM/FM will be in existance for long
time in parallel to upcoming digital
modulations (such as DAB, HD Radio
or DRM), the DIF approach is a good
way towards multi-standard solutions.
Atmel's new front-end ICs are multi-
standard solutions since they can be

used for both DIF-based solutions (sup-
porting different baseband solutions), as
well as for any other standard.
As for all other radio solutions, Atmel
provides intensive design-in support,
ranging from real design engineers to
demo boards and evaluation kits as well
as detailed documentation, to speed-up
the time to market.