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zl10355
Manufacturer Part Number
zl10355
Description
Nordig Unified Dvb-t Cofdm Terrestrial Demodulator For Pc-tv And Hand-held Digital Tv Dtv
Manufacturer
Zarlink Semiconductor
Datasheet
1.ZL10355.pdf
(26 pages)
The bandwidth of the AGC is set to a large value for quick acquisition then reduced to a small value for tracking.
The AGC is free running during OFDM channel changes and locks to the new channel while the tuner lock is being
established. This is one of the features of ZL10355 used to minimize acquisition time. A robust AGC lock
mechanism is provided and the other parts of the ZL10355 begin to acquire only after the AGC has locked.
2.3
Sampling a 36.17 MHz IF signal at 45 MHz results in a spectrally inverted OFDM signal centred at
approximately 8.9 MHz. The first step of the demodulation process is to convert this signal to a complex (in-phase
and quadrature) signal in baseband. A correction for spectral inversion is implemented during this conversion
process. Note also that the ZL10355 has control mechanisms to search automatically for an unknown spectral
inversion status.
2.4
Adjacent channels, in particular the Nicam digital sound signal associated with analog channels, are filtered prior to
the FFT.
2.5
ZL10355 uses digital timing recovery and this eliminates the need for an external VCXO. The ADC samples the
signal at a fixed rate, for example, 45.056 MHz. Conversion of the 45.056 MHz signal to the OFDM sample rate is
achieved using the time-varying interpolator. The OFDM sample rate is 64/7 MHz for 8 MHz and this is scaled by
factors 6/8 and 7/8 for 6 and 7 MHz channel bandwidths. The nominal ratio of the ADC to OFDM sample rate is
programmed in a ZL10355 register (defaults are for 45 MHz sampling and 8 MHz OFDM). The clock recovery
phase locked loop in the ZL10355 compensates for inaccuracies in this ratio due to uncertainties of the frequency
of the sampling clock.
2.6
There can be frequency offsets in the signal at the input to OFDM, partly due to tuner step size and partly due to
broadcast frequency shifts, typically 1/6 MHz. These are tracked out digitally, up to 1 MHz in 2 K and 8 K modes,
without the need for an analog frequency control (AFC) loop.
The default frequency capture range has been set to ±286 kHz in the 2 K and 8 K mode. However, these values
can be increased, if necessary, by programming an on-chip register (see 7.4.1). It is recommended that a larger
capture range be used for channel scan in order to find channels with broadcast frequency shifts, without having to
adjust the tuner. After the OFDM module has locked (the AFC will have been previously disabled), the frequency
offset can be read from an on-chip register.
2.7
This module computes the optimum sample position to trigger the FFT in order to eliminate or minimize
inter-symbol interference in the presence of multi-path distortion. Furthermore, this trigger point is continuously
updated to dynamically adapt to time-variations in the transmission channel.
2.8
The FFT module uses the trigger information from the timing synchronization module to set the start point for an
FFT. It then uses either a 2 K or 8 K FFT to transform the data from the time domain to the frequency domain. An
extremely hardware-efficient and highly accurate algorithm has been used for this purpose.
IF to Baseband Conversion
Adjacent Channel Filtering
Interpolation and Clock Synchronization
Carrier Frequency Synchronization
Symbol Timing Synchronization
Fast Fourier Transform
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