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RT-RK is a R&D company and national research institute that delivers development services and own products in the arena of real time embedded systems, with strong focus on consumer electronics and automotive. Headquartered in Novi Sad, with offices in Belgrade (Serbia), Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Osijek (Croatia) with over 500 engineers, RT-RK is one of the biggest development houses in Southeast Europe. RT-RK is professionally engaged in embedded system design, TV software development, automotive software development, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), UI/UX design, product development including small scale production, testing of Set-Top Box (STB) and multimedia devices, and FPGA rapid prototyping. ==Digital TV software== The company’s journey in Digital TV began in 2001 with joint venture with Micronas, Germany to develop software for their TVs. With time the Serbian development center transformed from an extended workbench approach towards a system supplier becoming a full Micronas subsidiary to deliver complete software solutions for Digital TV, and take over significant support responsibility towards Micronas' customers. When Micronas closed down their consumer business unit, it left RT-RK fully independent and continuing with TV software development serving a wide international customer base. RT-RK was the first company to announce successful porting of the big-endian version of the Android™ operating system for the MIPS® architecture facilitating SoC manufacturers with the power of Android, targeting market of Digital TVs (DTV), Set-Top Boxes (STB) and a range of applications in the digital home.〔(RT-RK Delivers IP Solution for Android Devices – Porting Android on DTVs and STBs. ) Bloomberg. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 Recognizing the company’s experience and potential for strategic partnership, Zoran Corporation singled out RT-RK for porting Android onto their System on Chip (SOC), joining forces in development of multimedia applications and services for connected TV.〔(Zoran Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2011 Results. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 To channel its business in Digital TV software development, in 2011 RT-RK becomes a shareholder of iWedia, a Swiss-based company and operates as system integrator on Set-Top Box and TV software products based on their DVB middleware. In 2012 RT-RK announces cooperation with General Satellite on their Set-Top Box GS-8305 deployed on the network of Tricolor TV,〔(iWedia set-top box solution enters mass production with General Satellite. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 which from scratch to mass production was developed by RT-RK. Mass production of the box in their factory in Kaliningrad has been tested by the RT-RK’s BBT Set-Top Box testing products. Strong Android background that gave birth to the company’s native approach for smooth and easy integration of IPTV and broadcast TV (DVB/ATSC) functionalities inside TV and STB devices powered by the Android operating system called ANDROID4TV, made Google conclude an agreement with the company to provide integration services to Google partners wishing to deploy Google TV in their products.〔(iWedia selected by Google as Software integrator for Google TV. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 Android Set-Top Box deployments continue with Swisscom IPTV STB,〔(Swisscom Android IPTV set-top operated by iWedia software. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 and Bouygues Telecom Bbox Miami hybrid box with Google Mobile Services (Google Play Store, Google Music, Chrome, YouTube, Google Play Movies) certified by Google.〔(iWedia software for Bouygues Telecom Android TV STB. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 In September 2014 the company makes ANDROID4TV software framework open source facilitating TV operators worldwide with the benefits of leveraging of Android openness, flexibility, and developers' community.〔(iWedia makes ANDROID4TV Software Framework open source. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 Powered by the engineering strength of RT-RK iWedia concludes many successful projects, including SAT>IP server〔(iWedia to unveil full range of SAT>IP products at IBC 2013. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 and Linux-based H.264 Set-Top Box based on STMicroelectronics’ Liege chipset,〔(iWedia provides Linux-based H.264 STB software for ST's Liege chipsets. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 both boxes being produced by RT-RK. Having profiled as a leading TV software developer, RT-RK continues operations providing services to other players in the Digital TV world, some of them being: SmarDTV,〔(RT-RK provides design services to SmarDTV for high end Media Gateway platform. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 Vidmind,〔(RT-RK to boost DVB-T/T2 performance of Vidmind OTT/DTT STB. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 and Wyplay.〔(RT-RK joins the Frog by Wyplay program. ) Digital TV News. Retrieved 2015-01-27.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RT-RK」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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