Title :
A complete single-chip front-end for digital satellite broadcasting
Author :
Busson, Pierre ; Jouffre, Pierre-olivier ; Dautriche, Pierre ; Paillardet, Frederic ; Telliez, Isabelle
Author_Institution :
STMicroelectron., France
Abstract :
This paper presents a single-chip integrating an RF tuner, a demodulator and channel decoder for digital satellite applications. The outstanding achievement is the integration of the zero IF and the demodulation on a standard 0.18 μm CMOS process
Keywords :
CMOS digital integrated circuits; Viterbi decoding; demodulators; digital video broadcasting; direct broadcasting by satellite; phase shift keying; tuning; 0.18 mum; 8-PSK demodulator; BPSK demodulator; CMOS process; DVB; DirecTV system; FEC; RF to base-band signal converter; RF tuner; Viterbi decoder; channel decoder; demodulation; digital satellite applications; digital satellite broadcasting; forward error correction; multi-standard QPSK; single-chip front-end; symbol frequency range; zero IF tuner; Band pass filters; Circuits; Demodulation; Frequency synthesizers; Local oscillators; Low pass filters; RF signals; Radio frequency; Satellite broadcasting; Tuners;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, 2001. ICCE. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6622-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2001.935234
