A universal cable set-top box system on a chip

Author

D´Luna, L. ; Law, H.-M. ; Laskowski, J. ; Ngai, W. ; Tzu-Chieh Kuo ; Tang, J. ; Xiaodong Xie ; Patterson, J. ; Young Vu ; Walker, C. ; Cheung, F. ; Luu, C. ; Case, M. ; Anderson, J. ; Gomez, F. ; Osborne, L. ; Jantzi, S. ; Cheung, D. ; Venes, A. ; Bushner

Author_Institution

Broadcom Corp., Irvine, CA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

7-7 Feb. 2001

Firstpage

328

Lastpage

329

Abstract

The state of set-top-box integration is advanced to achieve true system on a chip capability. The device integrates a universal physical-layer transceiver, a MIPS R3000 CPU core, a MPEG-2 audio and video decoder, an analog video decoder, a graphics engine, a video encoder, a DAVIC MAC and a set-top box peripherals module. The physical-layer transceiver is enhanced to achieve an improved bit error rate (BER) performance, by doubling the feed-forward taps of the equalizer, increasing word-length precision in the filters and equalizer, and adding filtering in the tracking loops.

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; DAVIC MAC; MIPS R3000 CPU core; MPEG-2; analog video decoder; audio decoder; bit error rate; digital signal processing chip; equalizer; filter; graphics engine; peripherals module; physical-layer transceiver; tracking loop; universal cable set-top box system; video decoder; video encoder; Bit error rate; Decoding; Engines; Equalizers; Feedforward systems; Filtering; Filters; Graphics; Tracking loops; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2001. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2001 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6608-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2001.912659

Filename

912659