STMicroelectronics announced that the company is sampling a digital AM/FM radio receiver chipset for use in automotive applications. Jointly developed by ST and Bosch’s subsidiary Blaupunkt, this digital receiver integrates audio signal processing and Radio Data System (RDS) decoding. The chipset includes two TDA7528 Radio Frequency (RF) front-end ICs and one STA3005 Digital Signal Processor (DSP) back-end IC. The solution tunes to all current analog radio services worldwide (AM, FM and US Weather band) as well as to the recently introduced digital broadcasts (Digital Audio Broadcasting, Digital Radio Mondiale, HD radio), providing suitable interfaces to external decoders.

The TDA7528 and STA3005 are supplied in LQFP64 (10x10) and TQFP144 (20x20) packages, respectively. Samples of the chipset are available now and volume production is scheduled for the second quarter of 2007.