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Holding out for a HERO

Posted Dec 20, 2010, by John Day

This week NXP Semiconductors announced a chip it developed under the code name HERO (highly efficient radio one), an “all-in-one” automotive radio chip based on automotive-qualified RF CMOS technology. Alpine Electronics raves about it. Torsten Lehmann, NXP’s VP of car entertainment solutions, says chips in the HERO (TEF663x) family are the first automotive RF CMOS devices to combine AM/FM radio and … Read More

Tags: automotive radio, RF CMOS, NXP Semiconductors, audio codecs, Alpine Electronics, automotive infotainment