A multi-standard set-top box channel decoder

Author

Sohi, Nirmal ; Gulak, P. Glenn

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

295

Lastpage

304

Abstract

Digital transmission and recording technologies such as direct broadcasting by satellite and DVD are revolutionizing the home-entertainment consumer electronics industry. It would be economical and convenient to use a single “set-top box” receiver for multiple services. Based on an analysis of the standards for digital audio broadcasting (DAB), digital video broadcasting (DVB) and DVD, a Viterbi decoder and a Reed-Solomon decoder are found to be common channel decoding components that would benefit from co-integration. This paper presents the synthesis-based design and test results of a 62.5 Mbps output rate multi-standard Viterbi decoder implemented in a 0.35 μm CMOS process

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; Reed-Solomon codes; Viterbi decoding; consumer electronics; digital audio broadcasting; digital signal processing chips; digital video broadcasting; direct broadcasting by satellite; entertainment; telecommunication standards; television receivers; video discs; 0.35 mum; 62.5 Mbit/s; CMOS process; DAB; DVD; Reed-Solomon decoder; channel decoding; digital audio broadcasting; digital recording; digital transmission; digital video broadcasting; direct broadcasting by satellite; home-entertainment consumer electronics industry; multi-standard Viterbi decoder; output rate; set-top box channel decoder; set-top box receiver; synthesis-based design; test results; Audio recording; Broadcast technology; DVD; Decoding; Digital audio broadcasting; Digital recording; Digital video broadcasting; Satellite broadcasting; Video recording; Viterbi algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Systems, 2000. SiPS 2000. 2000 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Lafayette, LA

ISSN

1520-6130

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6488-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIPS.2000.886728

Filename

886728