BOARDCOM BCM94201

BCM94201
PRODUCT
Brief
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BCM94201 SATELLITE RECEIVER EVALUATION SYSTEM
B C M 9 4 2 0 1
F E AT U R E S
• Reference design based on the Broadcom BCM4201
universal satellite receiver
• BCM3440 CMOS satellite tuner
• Standard MPEG-2 output in DIRECTV or DVB format
• 25-pin output connector with on-board line drivers
• I C bus interface to PC parallel port for system control
• On-chip Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) to simplify
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2
lab tests
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• Low-power operation
• Low Noise Block (LNB) control
• Easy to use Broadband Studio Software provided for
Glueless interface to external BERT
system evaluation
S U M M A R Y
O F
B E N E F I T S
• The BCM94201 demonstrates the operation of the
BCM4201 satellite receiver using the BCM3440 CMOS
tuner
• Fully-compliant with DIRECTV , Digicipher™ II and
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DVB specifications
• Simplified design is optimized to provide the lowest cost
tuner/receiver front-end combination
• Highly integrated system software enables evaluation of all
operating modes and data rates
• Supports full 2–85 Mbps, BCM4201 operation
• Complete reference design documentation support package
provided including Broadband Studio Software
• I C bus interface card operates with standard IBM
2
compatible computers
• The system provides a performance benchmark for
application design and software development
BCM94201 Satellite Receiver Evaluation System Reference Design