Broadcom transmits DVB and DAVIC models Richard Wilson
Digital TV chipset specialist Broadcom has introduced its first European standard DVB and DAVIC products.
The three QPSK/QAM receiver devices are aimed at separate broadband applications such as a TV set-top box receiver, satellite TV receiver and a cable/data modem device which supports 30Mbit/s Internet access over cable TV networks.
According to Tim Lindenfelser, Broadcom's vice-president of marketing, the devices offer a high level of design integration because the 10-bit A/D converters are incorporated on chip with the differential QPSK/QAM symbol mapper, adaptive equaliser and DVB/DAVIC compliant FEC. "Potentially the chip will support a 4-chip DVB digital set-top box design," said Lindenfelser.
The three DVB chips are: the BCM3118, set-top box receiver, the BCM4200, digital satellite receiver and BCM3036 cable/data modem device.
The company, which has Intel and Scientific Atlanta as minority shareholders, hopes to repeat its success in the US digital TV receiver market where its chips are inside the set-top boxes of Scientific Atlanta, General Instruments and Pioneer.
Broadcom will market the chips through its UK representative Thame Components, and already claims to have European design-ins for the satellite and digital TV chips, which are compatible with both European DVB and the US DSS digital TV access protocols.
"They're the only chips on the planet to do that," said Lindenfelser.