Digital Television Modulation IP Cores - MindWay and Xilinx

Xilinx and MindWay S.r.l. announced the availability of Virtex-5 and Spartan-3E FPGAs-based digital television modulation IP cores. This is an integral part of global broadcasting standards for satellite, terrestrial and cable transmission equipment. The new IP cores support DVB-T/H, DVB-C, DVB-S and ATSC 8-VSB transmission standards, enabling design engineers to quickly adopt DVB technology in their design while drastically reducing overall system cost.

Michele Corvo, MindWay, said:

The implementation of these modulation cores on Xilinx devices provides designers a lower cost-per-channel solution capable of outperforming DSP-based systems and competing FPGAs…

…We feel strongly that broadcasters will ultimately benefit from the performance and flexibility of our Xilinx FPGA-based designs, giving them the ability to provide cost effective, high performance solutions.

About MindWay S.r.l
MindWay S.r.l., founded in 2005, continues the design and consulting experience of Siscad, started in 1984. Headquartered in Agrate Brianza, close to Milan, MindWay is a fast growing privately owned company focused on providing synthesizable HDL or SystemC IP cores, ASIC (SoC) or FPGA design and design verification services. MindWay has a strong background of more than 20 years of design activity and has an internal IP core development program focusing on image compression, broadcasting, telecom and aerospace. MindWay can also develop IP cores according to customer specification.

The modulator cores perform all the digital baseband functions required for the transmission side of DVB and ATSC broadcast links. The cores accept an MPEG transport stream, perform various coding, interleaving, modulation, shaping functions, and output an I/R filtered output for use by an external modulator. A DVB-T/H Filter core is also available to perform linear and non- linear pre-distortion, spectrum shoulder filtering, and gain control depending on the 2K, 4K, or 8K transmission mode used by the DVB-T/H modulator.

IP cores for the DVB-T/H, DVB-S, DVB-C, ATSC 8-VSB modulators and the DVB-T/H Filter are available now.

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