BOARDCOM BCM4500_03

BCM4500
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ADVANCED MODULATION SATELLITE RECEIVER
SUMMARY OF BENEFITS
FEATURES
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• Highly integrated solution provides universal frontend for
All-digital satellite receiver
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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
12-tap adaptive equalizer
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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
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Complies with DVB/DIRECTV®/Digicipher IITM FEC decoder
MPEG-2 or DIRECTV® output interface with output clock PLL
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On-chip microcontroller for acquisition and tracking
On-chip BERT for BER testing
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Integrated DiSEqCTM (v2.0) transmitter and receiver
128-pin PQFP
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3.3V I/O and analog operation
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 design architecture requires no external RAM for
turbo FEC.
Advanced modulation receiver maintains robust performance
during low SNR operation.
Full variable rate operation from 256-kilobaud to 30megabaud provides multiple operating points for optimal
system deployment.
Integrated microcontroller controls receiver operations
including configuration, acquisition and performance
monitoring.
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.
Highly integrated DiSEqCTM interface includes integrated
analog components.
1.8V digital operation
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
OVERVIEW
RA_I
A/D
7
Nyquist
Phase/
Frequency
Recovery
Variable
Rate
Demod
7
RA_Q
Block
Header
Processor
α = 0.20, 0.35
M
U
X
12-tap
FFE
DATA[7:0]
CLK
VALID
SYNC
ERR
α = 0.20, 0.35
Viterbi
Decoder
Acquisition/Tracking Loops
and Clock Generation
DISEQC
Outer
RS
Decoder
t=10
Nyquist
A/D
AGC_CTRL
Iterative
Decoder
Sync &
Deinterleaver
Acquisition
Microcontroller
RS
Decoder
MBus/SPI
Interface
MICRO[4:0]
DiSEqC 2.0
The BCM4500 brings a new level of performance to the satellite
television industry with the introduction of an integrated advanced
modulation receiver and turbo FEC decoder. This breakthrough design
provides 50% more throughput in the same satellite bandwidth at
standard QPSK operating points while simultaneously improving BER
performance beyond existing levels. A high performance turbo FEC
code is implemented with all required on-chip RAM to move system
operating points near the theoretical capacity limits. A Reed-Solomon
outer code is also used to drive the BER beyond typical satellite 10E-11
limits.
The BCM4500 is a single-chip digital satellite receiver supporting
BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK and 16QAM modulations with iteratively (turbo)
decoded error correction coding. It represents an industry milestone in
terms of satellite system throughput and operating points. The BCM4500
also receives DVB, DIRECTV® and DigicipherTM II (DCII), QPSK
signals to support legacy system operation.
The BCM4500 contains dual 7-bit A/D converters, an all-digital variable
rate BPSK/QPSK/8PSK/16QAM receiver, an advanced modulation
turbo FEC decoder, and a DVB/DIRECTV/DCII compliant FEC
decoder. All required RAM is integrated and all required clocks are
generated on-chip from a single reference crystal. Baseband IQ analog
waveforms are sampled by the integrated 7-bit A/D converters,
resampled by integrated interpolative digital filter banks, and filtered by
dual square-root Nyquist filters. Optimized soft decisions are then fed
into either a DVB/DIRECTV/DCII-compliant FEC decoder, or an
advanced modulation turbo decoder. The final error-corrected output is
delivered in MPEG-2 or DIRECTV transport format. The output clock
is generated by an on-chip PLL for low-jitter operation and glueless
integration with Broadcom’s BCM7020 HD graphics and video
subsystem.
The BCM4500 also features a simplified user interface employing an onchip microcontroller for all system configuration, acquisition, control,
and monitoring functions. The host interface to the device is via a
simplified, high-level application programmer interface (API). The chip
also contains an integrated DiSEqCTM 2.0 controller with integrated
voltage regulator for two-way communication with LNBs. An on-chip
BERT is provided to simplify system test and manufacturing.
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4500-PB06-R
12/29/03
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