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Xilinx Solution Summary
The set-top box is driving the digital revolution right into your living room. Your fingertips now command a wealth of high quality digital information and digital entertainment, right from that favorite armchair. The set-top box revolutionizes home entertainment by providing vibrant television images with crystal clear sound, along with email, web surfing, customized information such as stock quotes, weather and traffic updates, on-line shopping, and video-on-demand right through a traditional television.
Xilinx FPGAs are feature rich to provide a multitude of solutions for the set-top box. Click on the image below, to see how Xilinx FPGAs can provide time-to-market and field upgradeable solutions for your set-top box design.
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Set-Top Box Market Overview
There is a considerable amount of uncertainty as to how the set-top box market will develop. Many industry experts predict that set-top boxes will evolve into home multimedia centers, possibly forming the hub of the home network system and the primary access for consumers to connect to the Internet. The set-top box market is very dynamic and will change dramatically over the next few years. We are already seeing a convergence of technology with equipment connected to the television, such as adding hard drives for television program storage and instant replay.
What is clear is that the set-top box market is growing at a very dramatic rate, and when markets are so dynamic and the future very unpredictable, time-to market and the ability to upgrade very quickly is imperative for a successful product. The Spartan-II family of FPGAs provides the cutting edge to bring products first to market, while having the ability to remotely add features to the set-top box already deployed in the home.
Hence, whatever happens in the years ahead, Xilinx FPGAs play an increasingly important role in the consumer systems of tomorrow.
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