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What if you could enjoy video, music, photos There’s no reason today to miss your favorite
and data, anywhere, anytime in your home program, or to be glued to the living room couch
– instantly and simply? while you watch it. There’s no need to sit huddled
around a PC screen with your friends just because
This is Connected Living – a world of effortless your holiday snaps happen to be on your computer.
connectivity between everyday multimedia And you don’t have to fight with your family over
devices anytime, anywhere in the home without what music to listen to after a hard day at work.
adding new wires. It’s about the convenience of
enjoying content when and where you want it. Connected Living makes it easier and more
And NXP can make it happen today. enjoyable to use media technology. It removes
the barriers that today prevent you from freely
The home is a place for sharing and enjoying and instantly moving content from one device to
experiences, regardless of where you are or another around your home – and even away from
what the time is. At NXP we think it’s about time home through a mobile or PDA. Once that happens
that technology offered the same flexibility and there’s virtually no limit to what you can do.
convenience.
What is Connected Living?
Connected Living connects digital media devices
in the home without adding extra wires, creating
a new kind of experience. This means two things
for consumers:
home
Connected Living devices include products for
the home, such as connected standard and high
definition digital TVs (HDTVs), PCs, set-top boxes
(STBs), personal video recorders (PVRs), and digital
media adapters (DMAs), as well as digital picture
frames, mobile phones, personal digital assistants
(PDAs), and personal media players (PMPs).
Connected Living
Connected Living is here because of an array of
exciting new services, devices, and technologies.
Service convergence
Service providers increasingly offer all of the
services for Connected Living. Today’s telco is
as likely to provide internet and digital TV, as it
is fixed and mobile telephony.
Product convergence
Increasing storage capacity, computing power, and
connectivity is driving convergence of consumer
electronics, computing, and communications. This
also means streamlined development cycles that
bring solutions to market faster and at lower cost.
Digital technology
Digital makes convergence a reality, allowing
different products to work together seamlessly.
Digital TV, for instance, allows you to watch your
favorite programs on a PC, phone, or personal
media player.
An idea
Broadband wireless
Connected Living demands high speed, reliable
IP networking that’s user friendly and requires
no installation. This is now possible with the
latest generation of power line communications
(PLC) and wireless technology like 802.11n.
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for today
Kitchen
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Watch TV anytime, anywhere
Living room
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Connected Living in the main room: personal video
recorder (PVR) and HD LCD TV.
Today’s personal video recorders (PVRs) allow At the same time, our advanced cross-platform
you to watch your favorite movies and programs DRM and codecs give consumers the freedom
anytime. Now NXP’s technologies allow you to enjoy internet-based PC TV and IPTV content
to watch them anywhere – from any storage or while respecting the rights of content owners.
viewing device in any room in your Connected
Living home. With terabytes of storage scattered across a
Connected Living environment, our intelligent
A key challenge is connectivity that’s fast and multimedia content analysis (MCA) takes the tedium
robust enough to carry multiple high definition out of finding the right program. This allows users
video, audio, and data streams. That’s why we’re to quickly find and display any content by type
offering leading edge connectivity technology (eg. comedy) or item (eg. last night’s big match)
as part of our system solutions, and working – all through the PVR’s on-screen menu.
with leading connectivity partners in areas such
as 802.11n.
To be available anywhere in the home, PVR also A PVR records and stores digital TV
needs to operate with other media and storage programming on a hard disk. It allows
devices. We’ve taken great strides through our you to watch your favorite programs any
pioneering work with open standards like time you choose through personalizable
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). record and playback options, including
smart scheduling and the ability to pause
or rewind live TV shows.
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We’re on your team
Whether you need a key technology or a system We strive for ever more compact form-factors,
solution, NXP puts the answer within your reach. offering you greater scope for product design
That’s because of our innovative technologies, without sacrificing performance. And we work
extensive support infrastructure, and efficient-to- hard to ensure our products are efficient for
implement products. you to implement.
Our industry influence allows us to forge resourceful This significantly lowers the cost and time-to-market
partnerships with everyone from content to service of your development, as well as your overall bill
providers, so we can support you in every aspect of of materials and go-to-market risk. Ultimately this
product development. Our global cross-application ensures mass-market price points that will play
infrastructure includes proven industry players (such a key role in establishing Connected Living.
as ODMs and ISVs) with extensive local networks
that make the most of regional specialties and
conditions.
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Open standards
Office – home desk
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We can’t predict the future, but NXP is doing We’ve also taken a leading role in the key enabling
everything it can to develop flexible solutions technologies for Connected Living. This includes
that are proofed against it. Our leadership in the new 802.11n wireless standard, NFC, RF front-
interoperability and open standards ensures end connectivity modules, and DRM.
today is only the beginning for Connected Living.
Products built on open technologies are more
NXP has a major role in open-standard forums reliable and easier to use. Consumers won’t
such as the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). return them anymore for interoperability reasons.
We’re also fully committed to industry-wide open They will want to upgrade their home network’s
standards like UPnP. reach and functionality. Our access to a wide and
growing range of third-party software and services
allows you to respond by adding whatever they
demand.
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Great video, audio, and data
Bedroom
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Video, audio, and data Connectivity
Connected Living provides unprecedented Connectivity is at the heart of Connected Living.
opportunities to create, manage, and share NXP combines unparalleled RF, multimedia,
multiple video, audio, and data streams across a and interconnectivity know-how for a home
home network. NXP’s technologies easily handle network that’s fast, reliable, and simple to use.
true-to-life HD pictures, impressive sound, and
massive amounts of data, thus creating a richer, We work together with Metalink Ltd. to harness
more satisfying experience for consumers. the benefits of its next generation 802.11n solution,
which promises high speed wireless connectivity
Our products – such as our STB225/810 system for bandwidth-hungry Connected Living
solutions for PVRs – use best-in-class video applications. Our solutions are also designed for
technologies. These make the most of our 50-year other networking technologies such as PLC and
pedigree in picture quality to improve the viewing multimedia over coax (MoC). Plus our NFC solutions
experience in ways consumers really appreciate. enable intuitive, short-range wireless connections
for fast device setup and secure data exchange.
Our Nexperia image processing home entertainment
engines deliver more than enough processing Our RF front-end connectivity modules eliminate
power for the increased requirements of HD interference between competing wireless standards
content, and our TDA827x silicon tuner ICs allow in the home network. We also use HDMI 1.3, the
TV reception in a range of devices. Our Nexperia latest wired connectivity standard that maintains
PNX15xx and 17xx connected media processors the quality of multiple high resolution video, audio,
enable real-time synchronized streaming audio and data streams from one device to another.
and video from device to device across a network.
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Joining the dots
NXP is your partner in all the enabling technologies Terrestrial/cable silicon tuner TDA18271HD
for the Connected Living environment. Our best-
in-class technologies ultimately lower the cost
and time-to-market of your development process,
as well as your overall bill of material.
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What it is What it offers Connected Living
Wireless 802.11n
Broadband wireless connectivity that’s at least five Reliable, interference-free HD information and
times faster than the current 802.11g standard. entertainment content distribution from IP, terrestrial,
Reliable due to use of 5Ghz band not occupied by cable and satellite providers to TV, STB and DMA.
other devices such as Bluetooth, microwave ovens,
and existing wireless devices.
Media Processing
Decodes, decrypts, and converts internet data Streams multimedia applications such as audio,
formats and broadcast protocols into usable pictures, video, graphics, and communications around a home
words, and sounds. network.
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