ST enables its customers to develop and differentiate their products quickly and cost-effectively by supplying its chipsets together with complete reference platforms, proven software packages, development kits and testing tools, as well as providing comprehensive customer support on a worldwide basis. As an active player in all major standardization initiatives, ST uses and promotes industry standards, open platforms, and interoperability to reduce complexity, costs, and time-to-market for its customers. ST believes these efforts also encourage the growth of new applications in the cellular market.

ST´s state-of-the-art open platform for mobile multimedia opens up new opportunities for multimedia systems in 3G networks. Based on an innovative and award-winning architecture with distributed processing using smart multimedia accelerators, ST´s Nomadik application processors enable portable terminals to play music, take pictures, record video, and host two-way video communications in real time, while minimizing power consumption and cost. As a founder member of the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance, ST promotes the faster and broader adoption of mobile computing devices by establishing open standards for mobile application processor interfaces.

ST´s Nomadik can be used with numerous chips such as a stereo audio codec with various signal-mixing capabilities, which adds recording and playback features and integrated programmable amplifiers.

ST supplies third-generation (3G) digital baseband processors to OEMs that are licensees of Ericsson Mobile Platforms’ leading-edge 3G mobile-phone technology. Because it handles the communication between the phone and the cell within the 3G mobile phone network, the digital baseband processor is a key component in a mobile phone. New 3G handsets containing these new digital baseband processor chips and operating on the W-CDMA (Wideband – Code Division Multiple Access) network have already been shipped in large volume to lead customers.

The Company’s cellular power-management portfolio includes a family of devices that power Nomadik multimedia systems and generate high voltages for displays, cameras, and high-power torches, as well as a multi-feature, constant-current, constant-voltage (CCCV) Li-Ion programmable battery charger.

In imaging, ST is one of the world’s largest suppliers of Camera Modules, CMOS sensors and image signal processors for mobile-phone cameras. Together with Nokia, the Company has released a comprehensive specification for camera modules (SMIA), aimed at standardizing this increasingly important component in mobile devices at all levels. From low-cost VGA to multi-megapixels, from sensor-processor chipsets to all-in-one modules, from fixed-focus to auto-focus cameras, a mobile imaging solution from ST always provides first-class image quality.

ST’s single-chip Bluetooth transceivers deliver best-in-class power consumption in both standby and operational modes and reach the industry’s best Bluetooth EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) performance at full throughput. ST’s portfolio also includes integrated Bluetooth and FM radio devices, fully optimized for mobile applications in power consumption, audio quality, and space and cost constraints.

Specifically designed for cellular handsets, ST’s single-chip, small-form-factor Wi-Fi solution delivers ultra-low-power, dual-band (IEEE802.11 b/g) operation.
ST solutions fully support the coexistence of both Bluetooth and Wireless LAN connectivity within the same system, outperforming competition on this co-existence performance.

ST’s power- and cost-optimized Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) respond to the subtlest changes in direction, speed, and acceleration, enabling motion-activated user interfaces in mobile phones. Acting as a tilt/motion sensor, MEMS can replace conventional switches or button and thumb wheels for scrolling, zooming and panning web pages, e-books, and spreadsheets on the phone display. Accelerometers can also help protect HDD-based smart-phones from data loss in freefall cases.

ST’s unparalleled portfolio of highly integrated devices, complemented with customizable reference designs and full software packages, enables handset manufacturers to develop optimized solutions with the best combination of price, performance, and power consumption, in the shortest possible time.

Updated January 2008