Developer of highly silicon solutions and integrated components
for the consumer entertainment and broadband markets.
Employees: 120
Main Markets:
Consumer Electronics Manufacturers.
Overview
HORIZON SEMICONDUCTORS is a major technology innovator and
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provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable the
secured delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and
throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment,
serving the Consumer Electronics, Broadband Communication and
home entertainment markets. HORIZON provides the industry's
broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art, System-On-a-Chip and
software solutions to manufacturers of set-top box equipment,
digital entertainment and broadband access products.
Using unique, proprietary technologies and design methodologies,
HORIZON designs, develops & supplies complete System-on-a-Chip
(SoC) solutions and related hardware & software applications.
HORIZON's diverse product portfolio includes solutions for
digital cable, satellite and IPTV set-top box (STB), Digital
Television (DTV) DVD, HD-DVD & Blu-Ray players and recorders,
Digital Video Recorder (DVR), and Home Media Centers.
HORIZON's innovative rich IP portfolio which includes coding
techniques, proprietary algorithms and VLSI architectures have
enabled the company to develop a diverse product portfolio,
supporting leading compression standards and a wide range of
advanced technologies. HORIZON's SoC families offer both single
and dual channel HD decoders as well as transcoding/encoding
solutions, all operating in real-time and at resolutions up to
1080/60p (1920x1080, 60 frames/sec).
HORIZON's SoCs are designed with the highest level of
integration, embedding a variety of leading edge technologies
including support for compression standards such as: H.264 (AVC),
VC-1 (SMPTE 421M), MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, superior display
processing, high definition 2D/3D graphics acceleration,
multi-channel multi-format audio processing, application CPU,
multi-stream high bandwidth transport processing, adaptive noise
reduction pre-processing, and a wide variety of advanced
connectivity and peripherals. All of HORIZON's SoCs are designed
in accordance with world-leading secure processor architectures,
enabling complete content protection in compliance with numerous
Conditional Access and Digital Rights Management schemes.
HORIZON believes that one of its key competitive advantages is
its broad base of core technologies encompassing the complete
design space from systems to silicon.
HORIZON has developed and continues to build on the following
technology foundations:
* Proprietary communications systems algorithms and protocols
* Advanced DSP hardware architectures
* System-on-a-chip design methodologies development for both
standard cell and full-custom integrated circuit design
* Proprietary Simulations & Verification tools
* High-performance radio frequency, analog and mixed-signal
circuit design using industry-standard CMOS processes
* High-performance custom microprocessor architectures and
circuit designs
* Extensive software reference platforms to enable complete
system-level solutions
