Brooktree

BrookTree Inc.

Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	1983
Headquarters	, USA
Website	www.brooktree.com

Brooktree is 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 on the market.

Brooktree is bought out by (NASDAQ: CNXT) Rockwell Semiconductors in the year 1996, which became Conexant in year 1998.

Brooktree is a well known company for developing ICs chipsets as the Bt8x8 family. These are frequently in TV tuner cards.

See also

• Video capture card
• Hauppauge Computer Works