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Brooktree was an American company founded in 1983 by
Brooktree was an American company founded in 1983 by Henry Katzenstein
Henry Sour Katzenstein (January 9, 1927 – January 10, 2003) 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.
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to commercialize a faster hardware architecture for digital to analog
In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC, D/A, D2A, or D-to-A) is a system that converts a digital signal into an analog signal. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) performs the reverse function.
There are several DAC archit ...
converters, three to eight times faster than the converters then on the market.
The company was bought out by Rockwell Semiconductor Rockwell may refer to:
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in 1996, which became Conexant
Conexant Systems, Inc. was an American-based software developer and fabless semiconductor company that developed technology for voice and audio processing, imaging and modems. The company began as a division of Rockwell International, before bei ...
() in 1998. 080507 xs4all.nl
Brooktree's best-known products included IC chipsets such as the Bt8x8 family. These were frequently used in 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 digital vi ...
s.
See also
*Video capture card
Video capture is the process of converting an analog video signal—such as that produced by a video camera, DVD player, or television tuner—to digital video and sending it to local storage or to external circuitry. The resulting digital data a ...
* Hauppauge Computer Works
Hauppauge Computer Works ( ) is a US manufacturer and marketer of electronic video hardware for personal computers. Although it is most widely known for its WinTV line of TV tuner cards for PCs, Hauppauge also produces personal video recorde ...
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