BCM4500
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ADVANCED MODULATION SATELLITE RECEIVER
S U M M A R Y O F B E N E F I T S
F E A T U R E S
All-digital satellite receiver
Highly integrated solution provides universal frontend for
advanced modulation satellite systems and legacy QPSK
systems in a single package.
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256-kilobaud to 30-megabaud variable rate receiver
Supports BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK, & 16QAM modulation
Dual integrated 7-bit A/D converters
Digital square-root Nyquist filters (a=0.2, 0.35)
All-digital clock and carrier recovery
High-performance turbo code FEC enables 50% throughput
increase over existing satellite channels within current link
budgets within a single transponder.
12-tap adaptive equalizer
Advanced design architecture requires no external RAM for
turbo FEC.
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Advanced modulation turbo FEC decoder
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High performance decoder approaches constrained capacity
theoretical limits
Advanced modulation receiver maintains robust performance
during low SNR operation.
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Supports QPSK rates 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4
8PSK flexible code rate support including 2/3, 3/4, 5/6 and 8/9
Supports 16QAM rate 3/4
No external RAM support required
Reed-Solomon decoder; t=10
Full variable rate operation from 256-kilobaud to 30-
megabaud provides multiple operating points for optimal
system deployment.
Integrated microcontroller controls receiver operations
including configuration, acquisition and performance
monitoring.
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Complies with DVB/DIRECTV®/Digicipher IITM FEC decoder
MPEG-2 or DIRECTV® output interface with output clock PLL
On-chip microcontroller for acquisition and tracking
On-chip BERT for BER testing
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Host interface operates via high-level application program
interface (API) to reduce host software development time and
to simplify system integration.
MPEG-2 or DIRECTV® output interface with PLL-generated
data clock provides glueless integration with BCM7020 HD
graphics and video subsystem.
Integrated DiSEqCTM (v2.0) transmitter and receiver
128-pin PQFP
Highly integrated DiSEqCTM interface includes integrated
analog components.
3.3V I/O and analog operation
1.8V digital operation
Advanced Modulation Satellite Receiver Set-Top Box
Conditional
Memory
Access
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HD Video
Audio
HDTV MPEG-2
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Transport DEMUX,
Audio/ Video
Advanced Modulation
Satellite Receiver
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Display Engine
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Host CPU