Date: 15th Jun 2011
1GHz full-band capture digital tuning
tech for IP-based video platforms
Broadcom Corporation has announced 1GHz Full-Band Capture
digital tuning technology integrated in three new 40nm hybrid
IP cable set-top box (STB) and DOCSIS 3.0 gateway SoC solutions.
These devices are for IP-based video platforms.
Broadcom's FBC technology directly digitizes the entire
1GHz downstream spectrum, replacing the need for a large
number of tuners with only one FBC digital tuner. Full-Band
Capture technology advantages as per broadcom includes:
Digital tuning: engineered with new enhanced signal processing
techniques that exceed the most challenging performance
requirements demanded by operators.
Bandwidth deployment flexibility: any demodulator can tune
to any frequency removing wideband "block" tuner
restrictions.
Reduced power consumption: more than 50 percent reduction
with new tuner architecture.
Faster channel change: FastRTV channel change technology
paired with Full-Band Capture provides quick channel change
regardless of frequency.
Reduced system cost: dramatically minimizes the number of
components by replacing up to nine cable tuners in a system
with only one FBC digital tuner supporting as many demodulators
as required.
Broadcom's 40nm 8-QAM BCM3128 and 4-QAM BCM3124 cable multi-receiver
SoCs and the 400 Mbps BCM3383 Euro/DOCSIS 3.0 cable gateway
SoC are the industry's first fully integrated solutions
to support FBC technology and are now shipping to customers.
Dan Marotta, Executive Vice President & General Manager,
Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group said "Driving
the next frontier in cable TV, Broadcom's breakthrough in
tuner design reduces the cost to transition current cable
platforms to hybrid IP-based solutions, proliferating IP
content delivery and services throughout the home and to
connected devices."
Broadcom Corporation has announced its third generation
DOCSIS 3.0 system-on-a-chip (SoC) for broadband gateway
market. Broadcom's BCM3383 DOCSIS/Euro-DOCSIS 3.0 cable
gateway SoC integrates Broadcom's Full-Band Capture (FBC)
technology, dual-band concurrent Wi-Fi and a custom applications
processor.
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