BOARDCOM BCM4500

BCM4500
PRODUCT
Brief
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A D VA N C E D M O D U L AT I O N S AT E L L I T E R E C E I V E R
B C M 4 5 0 0
S U M M A R Y
F E AT U R E S
• All-digital satellite receiver
advanced modulation satellite systems and legacy QPSK
systems in a single package.
• High-performance turbo code FEC enables 50%
throughput increase over existing satellite channels within
current link budgets within a single transponder.
• Advanced modulation turbo FEC decoder
• High performance decoder approaches constrained capacity
theoretical limits
• 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
with DVB/DIRECTV /Digicipher II FEC
• Complies
decoder
or DIRECTV output interface with output clock
• MPEG-2
PLL
• On-chip microcontroller for acquisition and tracking
• On-chip BERT for BER testing
• Integrated DiSEqC (v2.0) transmitter and receiver
• 128-pin PQFP
• 3.3V I/O and analog operation
• 1.8V digital operation
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B E N E F I T S
• Highly integrated solution provides universal frontend for
• 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 (α=0.2, 0.35)
• All-digital clock and carrier recovery
• 12-tap adaptive equalizer
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design architecture requires no external RAM
• Advanced
for turbo FEC.
modulation receiver maintains robust
• Advanced
performance during low SNR operation.
variable rate operation from 256-kilobaud to
• Full
30-megabaud provides multiple operating points for
optimal system deployment.
microcontroller controls receiver operations
• Integrated
including configuration, acquisition and performance
monitoring.
interface operates via high-level application program
• Host
interface (API) to reduce host software development time
and to simplify system integration.
or DIRECTV output interface with PLL• MPEG-2
generated data clock provides glueless integration with
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BCM7020 HD graphics and video subsystem.
Highly integrated DiSEqC
• analog
components.
TM
interface includes integrated
Advanced Modulation Satellite Receiver Set-top Box
Memory
BCM4500
Advanced Modulation
Satellite Receiver
L-band
BCM3440
SatelliteTuner
Conditional
Access
BCM7020
HD Video
HDTV MPEG-2
Transport DEMUX,
Audio/ Video
Decoder and
Display Engine
Audio
Host CPU