Philips Ref,TDA8960 Datasheet
Highly integrated DTV front-end, with
IEEE 1394/Device Bay transport stream output
In the fast moving digital broadcast market, where TV and PC
technologies are converging, the high performance IEEE 1394 bus is
now the established high-speed, real-time true plug-and-play serial bus
system. As its popularity grows, it is becoming the accepted standard for
connecting a variety of digital consumer electronics equipment to each
other, as well as to multimedia PCs and workstations. Drawing on
Philips Semiconductors’ acknowledged expertise in digital TV systems
and IEEE 1394 interface devices, this reference design combines these
technologies in the emerging Device Bay format, creating a simple
high performance DTV receiver for PC and other IEEE 1394-based
applications.
Based around a proven 8-VSB (Vestigial SideBand) demodulator with
on-chip digital tuner AGC control, used in the established ‘Coney’
PCI-based ATSC/NTSC PC-TV board, this reference design also
incorporates Philips’ advanced IEEE 1394 devices: a high-performance
Link layer controller with isochronous operation and embedded
IEC61883 support; and a three-port Physical layer interface. These
high-speed devices enable the digital TV signal (MPEG2 transport
stream) to be transferred over the IEEE 1394 bus at 200 Mbits/s, output
via either 1394 port or Device Bay connections.
This reference design enables platform providers to concentrate on
developing the user interfaces and applications that will differentiate
them in a market where competition is very fierce. A licence is available,
royalty-free, from Philips Semiconductors to use the PCB layout
(Gerber) files as well as the original design schematics.
Committed to flexible digital TV and PC/TV solutions,
Philips Semiconductors has developed a complete
DTV receiver reference design based on proven ICs from
other reference designs. It is laid out according to Device Bay
physical specifications and allows a DTV transport stream to be
carried over Device Bay or IEEE 1394 connections.
Applications
• Digital ATSC-compliant terrestrial reception
• Personal computers with digital television capabilities
• Modular digital home entertainment systems
Highly featured board
• Outputs a DTV transport stream over IEEE 1394
or Device Bay connections
• Reference design laid out according to
Device Bay physical specifications
• Single-chip TDA8960 A TSC-compliant 8-VSB
demodulator and decoder front-end
• PDI1394P11 IEEE 1394-1995 Physical layer controller
supports data transfer at up to 200 Mbits/s
• PDI1394L11 IEEE 1394-1995 A/V Link layer
controller with hardware support for IEC61883
• TDA9829 IF downconversion for VSB
IEEE 1394/Device Bay
ATSC DTV receiver
Reference design
MSD052
TUNER
IF
ADC
1394
PHYSICAL
LAYER
1394 LINK
LAYER
CONTROLLER
DATA
FORMATTING
& CONTROL
I2C µC
80C51
I
2
C
EEPROM
64k8
SRAM
64k8
1394
PORT
1394
POWER
DEVICE BAY
CONNECTORS
POWER
ENABLE
LOGIC
1394
PHYSICAL
LAYER
8-VSB
DEMODULATOR
This reference design demonstrates a
complete solution for capture,
demodulation and decoding of ATSCcompliant DTV signals, and outputting
DTV transport streams over the high
speed IEEE 1394 bus using either
IEEE 1394 or Device Bay connections.
It uses just three core ICs:
the TDA8960 VSB demodulator/decoder
and two IEEE 1394 ICs - a physical layer
controller and A/V link layer controller.
SINGLE-CHIP ATSC
DEMODULATOR/DECODER
• TDA8960 ATSC-compliant 8-VSB
demodulator and concatenated Trellis
(Viterbi)/Reed-Solomon decoder with
de-interleaver and de-randomizer
• 8-bit MPEG2 transport stream output
• On-chip digital tuner AGC control
• Integrated digital Square-Root
Raised-Cosine (half Nyquist) filter with
11.5 % roll-off
• Feed forward adaptive equalizer
including a Decision Feedback Equalizer
(DFE)
• Reed-Solomon decoder with internal
convolutional de-interleaving
• De-randomizer based on ATSC standard
• Rate 2/3 (rate 1/2 Ungerboeck-codebased) Trellis (Viterbi) decoder
One of the key chips in the Device Bay module, the TDA8960
accepts 8-VSB modulated signals from the IF block of the tuner
front-end, or alternatively, the VSB IC AGC control output can
be applied directly to the tuner. Adaptive equalization using
the ATSC field sync (trained equalization) and/or the 8-VSB data
itself (blind equalization) is performed via a decision feedback
equalizer (DFE) following internal carrier recovery, half Nyquist
filtering and symbol timing recovery.
Following trellis decoding, the stream is de-interleaved with a
convolutional de-interleaver with on-chip memory. The ATSCcompliant Reed-Solomon decoder has a length of 207 and can
correct up to 10 bytes. After decoding, the stream is de-randomized
and passed to a FIFO, preventing irregular gaps in the data; this then
outputs an 8-bit MPEG2 transport stream for de-multiplexing.
Philips Semiconductors’ controllers deliver a high-performance,
low-cost, proven IEEE 1394 system solution. Our Physical layer
controllers are fully interoperable with all 1394 link layer controllers
including PCI/OCHI compatible devices, while our Link layer
controllers offer support for MPEG2 and DV data streams, and
IEC61883. Our latest full duplex A/V link layer controller
(PDI1394L21) also supports processor based time stamp handling.
All Philips IEEE 1394 silicon offers bus holder circuits on the
Link/PHY interface, allowing effective node isolation - required in
almost all 1394-enabled equipment. A single capacitor in series with
each Link/PHY interface line provides economical yet highly
effective isolation.
COMPLETE REFERENCE DESIGN FOR A
IEEE 1394/DEVICE BAY ATSC DTV RECEIVER MODULE
PROVEN HIGH PERFORMANCE IEEE 1394 SILICON
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