Abstract
Large parts of Europe have the ability to receive high-quality digital audio broadcasting (DAB) programs, without distortion, in a mobile environment. This puts pressure on the availability of receivers, which are planned to appear on the market in 1998. For a consumer, not only audio is important: the DAB system allows any combination of audio, video, and data services to be transmitted with a total gross capacity of about 2.3 Mb/s. This paper describes a chip that makes it all possible, the ability to make low-cost receivers for audio, or a full featured video or data receiver. The 4.5-million-transistor mixed-signal device converts 40 MHz analog intermediate frequency and performs all signal processing needed to demodulate and decode a DAB signal to ISO-MPEG transport stream, including full receiver synchronization and deinterleaving using an embedded 0.5-Mb memory.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1793-1798 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 1998 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
Manuscript received March 30, 1998; revised June 9, 1998. This work was supported by JESSI DAB Projects AE-14 and AE-89 and Medea Project A222. J. A. Huisken, M. J. G. Bekooij, G. C. M. Gielis, and F. P. J. Welten are with Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. F. A. M. van de Laar is with Philips Consumer Electronics, ASA-Lab, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. P. W. F. Gruijters was with Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He is now with Philips Semiconductors, SLE, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Publisher Item Identifier S 0018-9200(98)08037-8.
Keywords
- Decoding
- Demodulation
- Digital audio broadcasting (DAB)
- Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)