Brooktree
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Brooktree is an American company founded in 1983 by Henry Katzenstein
to commercialize a faster hardware architecture for digital to analog
converters, three to eight times faster than the converters on the market.
Brooktree is bought out by Rockwell Semiconductors in the year 1996, which became Conexant
in year 1998.
Brooktree is a well known company for developing ICs chipsets as the Bt8x8 family. These are frequently in TV tuner card
s.
Henry Katzenstein
Henry Sour Katzenstein was an American physicist and entrepreneur. He founded a company called Brooktree in 1983 to commercialize a new architecture for digital to analog converters that he developed....
to commercialize a faster hardware architecture for digital to analog
Digital-to-analog converter
In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter is a device that converts a digital code to an analog signal . An analog-to-digital converter performs the reverse operation...
converters, three to eight times faster than the converters on the market.
Brooktree is bought out by Rockwell Semiconductors in the year 1996, which became Conexant
Conexant
Conexant Systems, Inc. is an American semiconductor company, formerly the semiconductor division of Rockwell International. Currently it's privately owned by Golden Gate Capital, an equity firm headquartered in San Francisco.-History:...
in year 1998.
Brooktree is a well known company for developing ICs chipsets as the Bt8x8 family. These are frequently in TV tuner card
TV tuner card
A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk much like the Tivo digital video recorder does.-Variants: The interfaces for...
s.