Implementation of internet browsing on Set Top Box using ARM-Linux

There is a need to integrate Internet browsing feature on Set Top Box (STB) as an additional feature to provide value to interactive television services. Even though there are ways to perform such a task, but providing a good design with a capable processor and operating system which are capable of handling more present and futuristic with cost effective looks to be challenging. ARM core processors and Linux operating system (OS) may be employed in implementation of interactive television. ARM is one of the most licensed and thus widespread processor cores in the world and used especially in portable devices due to low power consumption and reasonable performance (MIPS / watt) and Linux is an open source operating system with good flexibility and secured file system. Present paper presents an implementation of Internet browsing embedded in STB using ARM processors and Linux OS.