Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Frederic Nicolas

Pascal Blouin

Vitor Pereira

Olivier Souloumiac

David Rault

David LeGoff

Emmanuel Gautier

Eric Vapillon

Gaetan Guillaume

Stephane Faudeil

Laurent Appercel

In one form, a multi-chip module for a multi-mode receiver includes an MCM substrate and first and second demodulator die. The MCM substrate has first and second satellite input ports, first and second terrestrial/cable input ports, and first and second transport stream ports. The first demodulator die has a satellite port coupled to the first satellite input port of the MCM substrate, a terrestrial/cable port coupled to the first terrestrial/cable input port of the MCM substrate, and first and second transport stream ports coupled to the first and second transport stream ports of the MCM substrate. The second demodulator die has a satellite port coupled to the second satellite input port of the MCM substrate, a terrestrial/cable port coupled to the second terrestrial/cable input port of the MCM substrate, and first and second transport stream ports coupled to the first and second transport stream ports of the MCM substrate.

Multi-chip module for a multi-mode receiver and method therefor

A method includes generating, based on at least one received signal, a first packet stream and a second packet stream. One of the first and second packet streams includes a packet associated with the other of the first and second packet streams. The first and second packet streams indicate respective buffer configuration sizes. The method further includes, prior to determining the respective buffer configuration sizes indicated by the first and second packet streams, allocating respective first and second portions of a dejitter buffer to the first and second packet streams. In at least one embodiment of the method, the allocating is performed by hardware coupled to the dejitter buffer.

Packet synchronization receiver

Demodulator and multi-chip module for a multi-mode receiver and method therefor

Data flow control in a television receiver controls the output of the frequency deinterleaver (FDI) and the time deinterleaver (TDI) to prioritize processing control information having transmission parameters needed for processing data, thereby facilitating use of one FEC decoder.

Receive data flow path using a single FEC decoder

A multi-standard single-chip receiver for digital demodulation of TV signals broadcasted over any of multiple digital television means, e.g., satellite, cable and terrestrial, is provided. The receiver can receive and demodulate a variety of different signal types received from one or more up-front tuners. A demodulator architecture in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention can be optimized to re-use common demodulation processing blocks for the different incoming signal types.

Multi-standard digital demodulator for TV signals broadcast over cable, satellite and terrestrial networks

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Frederic Nicolas