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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
May. 23, 2017
Maxlinear, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Anand Anandakumar, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Serdar Yilmaz, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Chi-Foun Kuen, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Ravi Aripirala, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Maxlinear, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit may comprise a tuner operable to digitize a band of frequencies comprising a plurality of television channels, a crossbar operable to select one or more of the plurality of television channels output by the tuner, a plurality of demodulators operable to receive the selected one or more television channels from the crossbar and demodulate the selected one or more television channels to recover a plurality of transport streams, a transport module operable to multiplex the plurality of transport streams into a single packet stream, and a framer operable to: encapsulate packets of the plurality of transport streams into transport stream frames of a serial datastream, and insert filler frames into the serial datastream after every Nth transport stream frame of the serial datastream, where N is an integer.