While most new Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) design wins for...

allows channel bonding and increases transfer speeds to 400 Mbps from 175 Mbps. It also adds two sleep and standby lower-power modes and an “enhanced” mode that increases throughput to 800 Mbps. The operating frequency also expands to the 500 MHz to 1,650 MHz range. Entropic’s MoCA 2.0 transceiver and baseband chip are in production at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., Henry said. MoCA 2.0 is in its “very early stage” and will “experience an initial ramp this year where we will start getting more meaningful revenue,” Henry said. “But I think even throughout 2013, the majority of shipments will continue to be 1.1. The key thing is most of the new design win activity is really around MoCA 2.0. But even when they are in production at the box level, they have to go through an operator certification process, which can take nine months.” Entropic acquired PLX Technology’s digital channel stacking switch (DCSS) technology for $8 million in Q2, including about 10 PLX engineers, Henry said. Entropic also will pay a $4 million one-time licensing fee to PLX as part of the deal, he said. DCSS allows a channel stacking design in which multiple channels can be transmitted on a single cable based on the demands of multiple set-tops and tuners attached to the cable. Entropic supplies DCSS chips to DirecTV and EchoStar, among others. PLX acquired the DCSS technology when it bought Teranetics for $36 million in 2010. Teranetics had developed physical layer chips for 10 Gbps Ethernet over copper that were expected to be available this year. But Entropic hasn’t introduced any products yet based on the DCSS technology, Henry said.