
Philips Electronics
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This document specifies a DVB compliant demodulator and forward error correction decoder IC for reception of QPSK and BPSK modulated signals for satellite applications.
FEATURES
• One-chip Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) compliant demodulator and concatenated Viterbi/Reed-Solomon decoder with de-interleaver and de-randomizer
• 3.3 V supply voltage (up to 5 V allowed)
• Internal clock divider
• On-chip crystal oscillator
• QPSK/BPSK demodulator:
– Interpolator to handle variable symbol rates without an external anti-aliasing filter
– On-chip Automatic Gain Control (AGC) of the analog input I and Q baseband signals or tuner AGC control
– Two on-chip matched Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs; 7 bits)
– Square-Root Raised-Cosine Nyquist filter with programmable roll-off factor
– High maximum symbol frequency: 32 Msymbols/s
– Can be used at low channel Es/No (Symbol energy-to-noise ratio)
– Internal carrier recovery, clock recovery and AGC loops with programmable loop filters
– Two carrier recovery loops enabling phase tracking of the incoming symbols
– Different modulation schemes: Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) and Binary-Phase Shift Keying (BPSK)
– Signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) estimation
– External indication of demodulator lock.
• Viterbi decoder:
– Rate 1⁄2 convolutional code based
– Constraint length K = 7 with G1 = 171oct and G2 = 133oct
– Supported puncturing code rates: 1⁄2, 2⁄3, 3⁄4, 4⁄5, 5⁄6, 6⁄7, 7⁄8 and 8⁄9
– 4 bits ‘soft decision’ inputs for both I and Q
– Truncation length: 144
– Automatic synchronization to correct puncturing rate and spectral inversion
– Channel Bit Error Rate (BER) estimation from 10−2 to 10−8
– External indication of Viterbi synchronization lock
– Differential decoding supported.
• Reed-Solomon (RS) decoder:
– (204, 188 and T = 8) Reed Solomon code
– Automatic (I2C-bus configurable) synchronization of bytes, transport packets and frames
– Internal convolutional de-interleaving (I = 12; using internal memory)
– De-randomizer based on Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS)
– External indication of RS decoder sync lock
– External indication of uncorrectable errors (transport error indicator is set)
– Indication of the number of lost blocks
– Indication of the number of corrected blocks/bytes.
• I2C-bus interface:
– I2C-bus interface initializes and monitors the demodulator and Forward Error Correction (FEC) decoder with standby mode; when no I2C-bus is used, default mode is defined
– 4-bit I/O expander for flexible access to and from the I2C-bus
– I2C-bus configurable interrupt pin
– Standby mode for reduced power consumption.
• Package: QFP100
• Boundary scan test.
APPLICATIONS
• Demodulation and FEC for digital satellite TV.