Our Products

The ArkTIC family of solutions is designed to address the rapidly developing connected home market. with a portfolio of solutions that enable OEMs and ODMs to quickly develop digitally networked consumer electronic products with a competitive cost structure. 

We do this by providing System-on-chip solutions, firmware loads, and reference designs that are essentially working blueprints for end-product designs.

SEMICONDUCTORS

AI-1100
System-on-Chip Semiconductor

The AI-1100 chip is the first single chip product combining HomePlug 1.0.1 based PHY and MAC, a wide variety of interfaces including digital audio and Ethernet, and a powerful ARM9 processor.

The AI-1100's capabilities are demonstrated in a number of reference designs that showcase the power of Arkados chips and firmware. These are made available to our customers as a blueprint for their product designs.

DIRECT-TO-SPEAKER™ REFERENCE DESIGNS
for synchronized whole-house audio

Arkados Direct-to-Speaker™ MFi iPod Dock
AI1100-DTS-MFiD

The Arkados AI1100-DTS-MFiD is designed to seamlessly connect to an iPod through the docking connector and supports audio functions and advanced iPod controls and metadata exchange. Supports Arkados Direct-to-Speaker technology for synchronized audio, and connects to a variety of Arkados-based audio receivers.

Arkados Direct-to-Speaker™ Audio Receiver
AI1100-DTS-ARCV

The Arkados Direct-to-Speaker™ Audio Receiver is designed to receive audio content from all Direct to Speaker™ digital audio sources. It is also designed to receive metadata content and relay commands back to the audio sources. The AI1100-DTS-ARCV is designed to support a broad range of product implementations such as digital media adapters, internet radios, networked active speakers, etc. This flexibility is achieved through the ability of the AI1100-DTS-ARCV to support LCD, LED user interface, act as an IR receiver, and integrate with audio DACs and Class-D amplifiers through I2S interface.

Arkados Direct-to-Speaker™ Internet Radio
AI1100-DTS-INTR

The Arkados Direct-to-Speaker Internet Radio Reference Design  is a HomePlug certified reference design from Arkados that can tune into internet radio stations without the use of a computer. The device acts as a bridge between digital music programming available through the internet, and Arkados audio receivers. Consumer IR interface allows for the direct connection of an IR receiver for remote control functions. 

Arkados Direct-to-Speaker™ Virtual Audio Driver
AI1100-DTS-VAD

The Arkados Direct-to-Speaker™ Virtual Audio Driver is a software application that runs on Windows® platforms. The application adds an audio device driver and allows PC users to transport audio -- played by any application running on the PC equipped with the AI1100-DTS-VAD -- to Arkados Direct to Speaker enabled audio receivers.

Arkados Direct-to-Speaker™ Low-Latency Audio Transport
AI1100-DTS-LOW

The Arkados Direct-to-Speaker™ Low-Latency Audio Transport is specialized firmware that is designed to run on Arkados Direct to Speaker platforms. Applications such as intercoms, remote subwoofers, and public announcement systems can be built with the help of this firmware to address various specific requirements of real-life applications. Some examples may include speakers for whole-house audio distribution that are capable of switching from the current audio program to an intercom or public-address feed.


Vid-Quick™ VIDEO REFERENCE DESIGNS
for whole house distribution of video applications
Arkados Vid-Quick™ IPTV Video Receiver
AI1100-VQK-IPTV

Built on the Arkados VP-100 Platform, the Arkados Vid-Quick™ IPTV Video Receiver is designed to serve as a low-cost IPTV set-top box, capable of receiving streams through either a HomePlug network, or 100Base-T Ethernet. Using Analog Devices' Blackfin DSP as a video decoder, it is capable of supporting a broad range of compression codecs such as H.264, WMA, MPEG-4, etc. This platform is also capable of supporting on-screen menus, and remote control functionalities.

Arkados  Vid-Quick™ Surveillance Video Receiver
AI1100-VQK-SECB

Built on the Arkados VP-100 Platform, the Arkados Vid-Quick Surveillance Video Receiver receives video data from a variety of HomePlug-certified video cameras and displays the output on an ordinary television. IR Remote controls can be used to select cameras and control a variety of camera and image presentation options. Firmware can be customized to support specific cameras, and value-added features such as pan, tilt, zoom, etc. 

Arkados  Vid-Quick™ Digital Picture Frame
AI1100-VQK-DPF

Built on the VP-1100 platform, the Arkados Vid-Quick™ Digital Picture Frame is capable of displaying still images obtained through the HomePlug network from a variety of sources on a regular TV. Supports remote control functionality.

The Arkados silicon and software solutions are designed to lower the overall cost of producing products for the connected home, speed the time to market and offer a flexible multimedia platform for developing and delivering a variety of powerline networked products.

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