Overview
ClearSignal-RD™ is a reference design demonstrating a complete Digital Radio solution to manufacture enhanced Digital Radio products.

Target customer
Consumer Electronics manufacturers and RF Chip designers.

Description
Customers can use ClearSignal-RD to build a Digital Radio ready-made-module and/or a multi-featured radio receiver. It also enables to add Digital Radio capability to an existing device, such as a DVD player, cellular phone or regular FM radio. ClearSignal-RD uses ADI BlackFin's low-cost general-purpose DSP, an off-the-shelf single chip RF for a cost effective solution, and advanced Digital Radio software applications.

Deliverables

EtherWaves provides its customers with a hardware evaluation board, documentation and BOM for completing the design (Hardware schematics), software libraries with a demo application, usage examples and integration support.

Product Features

• DAB/DAB+ (including data services and EPG), DMB, DRM, FM mono/stereo decoder
• DMB/DAB multi-mode L-band and band III
• Stereo FM receiver with RDS support
• Playback of MP3/WMA/AAC files from SD card
• Multi-lingual
• Continuous record for on-demand last minutes replay
• Built-in sound control engine: bass, treble & loudness
• Intelligent API for User Interface, including control of LCD, keypad and rotary encoder 
• Power down for low power consumption
• Clock/alarm functionality
• Compact size

Main Benefits

• Proven reliable solution
• Cost-effective
• Fast design cycle
• High performance
• Suitable for a large variety of consumer electronics products
• Easy integration with existing products
• Software solution enables high adaptability and "last minute" changes

Download ClearSignal-RD datasheet