Ensigma Digital TV demodulation IP platform provides a generic architecture that supports multiple TV standards. Proven and efficient unique hardware architecture combines multiple programmable processing engines, along with hardware accelerators for common high-throughput operations such as error correction and filtering. Solutions are available in a wide range of performance capabilities, from single-standard to multi-standard implementations.
Features
- Features
- Multi-standard support on a single platform
- DVB-S2X support
- Highly competitive performance
- NorDig/DTG compliant where applicable
- Provides physical layer demodulation: interfaces to a tuner and produces a MPEG transport stream
- Hardware accelerators and special purpose processes provide a flexible architecture with optimal low-power clock speed
- Supports locally-controlled or host-controlled tuners
- Benefits
- Complete TV front-end solution
- Silicon proven design
- Low-power consumption
- Easy integration into an SoC
- Applications
- TVs
- Set-top boxes
- Consumer products
- DVB-T (Terrestrial TV)
- Iterative forward error correction providing excellent Gaussian noise performance
- 18.7dB typical (64QAM 7/8) [NorDig target = 22.5dB]
- Excellent performance with a range of impairments
- Echo in-guard and out-of-guard
- Dopplar shift
- ACI and CCI
- Impulsive noise
- DVB-T2 (Terrestrial TV)
- Patented LDPC decoder design and iterative de-mapping providing excellent Gaussian noise performance
- 17.5dB typical (64QAM 5/6) [NorDig target = 21.6dB]
- Excellent performance with a range of impairments
- Echo in-guard and out-of-guard
- Dopplar shift
- ACI and CCI
- Impulsive noise
- DVB-S (Satellite)
- Iterative forward error correction providing excellent Gaussian noise performance
- 6.4dB typical (QPSK 7/8) [NorDig target = 8.4dB]
- Excellent performance with a range of impairments
- Echo
- Tonal interferers
- Phase noise
- ‘Coarse CFO’ system uses spectral analysis to correctly identify and lock to signals with a low symbol rate and large carrier frequency offset
- DVB-S2/S2X (Satellite)
- Patented LDPC decoder design provides excellent Gaussian noise performance
- 11.5dB typical (8PSK 9/10) [NorDig target=12.0dB]
- Excellent performance with a range of impairments
- Echo
- Tonal interferers
- Phase noise
- ‘Coarse CFO’ system uses spectral analysis to correctly identify and lock to signals with low symbol rate and large carrier frequency offset
- DVB-C (Cable)
- Fast lock time for rapid channel scan
- Excellent performance with a range of impairments
- Gaussian noise
- Phase noise
- Echo
- Dopplar shift
- ACI and CCI
Block Diagram of the Ensigma Digital TV Demodulation IP IP Core