Software-defined DTV platform

Author

Jungpil Yu ; Hyun-Yong Lee ; Chang Hoon Choi ; Jaehun Chung

Author_Institution

DMC R&D Center, SAMSUNG Electron., Suwon, South Korea

fYear

2013

Firstpage

492

Lastpage

493

Abstract

Since the first appearance of the digital TV standard in mid-1990, the number of digital Television standard increases up to a dozen until now. In this circumstance, it is no wonder for a modern DTV to support several standards simultaneously. For example, almost all DTVs sold in Europe support DVB-T standard as well as DVB-C standard. From the engineering standpoints, this multi-standard DTV is a good candidate for software-defined radio concept which allows the DTV to adapt to various standards by only affecting the software modules. In this paper, a software-defined DTV platform which has been developed and successfully tested in SAMSUNG electronics R&D center is described. This platform is equipped with a reconfigurable processor and common hardware. As an example, the 2^nd generation terrestrial broadcasting, namely DVB-T2 is successfully incorporated into the platform of FPGA (field-programmable gate arrays).

Keywords

digital video broadcasting; field programmable gate arrays; microprocessor chips; reconfigurable architectures; software radio; DVB-C standard; DVB-T standard; DVB-T2; Europe; FPGA; SAMSUNG electronics R and D center; digital TV standard; digital television standard; field programmable gate arrays; multistandard DTV; reconfigurable processor; second generation terrestrial broadcasting; software defined DTV platform; software defined radio; software modules; Digital TV; Digital video broadcasting; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Process control; Standards; VLIW;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

2158-3994

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1361-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2013.6486990

Filename

6486990