Brooktree

Brooktree Corporation was 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 then on the market.

Brooktree Corporation

Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	1983
Headquarters	USA

A Brooktree video decoder

A Brooktree RAMDAC

The company was bought out by Rockwell Semiconductor in 1996, which became Conexant (Nasdaq: CNXT) in 1998.^[1]

Brooktree's best-known products included IC chipsets such as the Bt8x8 family. These were frequently used in TV tuner cards.

See also

• Video capture card
• Hauppauge Computer Works