
1998 Apr 27
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Philips Semiconductors
Preliminary specification
Digital TV sound demodulator/decoder
TDA9874H
6
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
6.1
Description of the demodulator and decoder
section
6.1.1
SIF
INPUT
Two input pins are provided. SIF1 e.g. for terrestrial TV
and SIF2 e.g. for a satellite tuner. As no specific filters are
integrated, both inputs have the same specification giving
flexibility in application. The selected signal is passed
through an AGC and then digitized by an 8-bit ADC
running at 24.576 MHz.
6.1.2
AGC
The gain of the AGC amplifier is controlled from the ADC
output by means of a digital control loop employing
hysteresis. The AGC has a fast attack behaviour to
prevent ADC overloads, and a slow decay behaviour to
prevent AGC oscillations. For AM demodulation the AGC
must be switched off. When switched off, the control loop
is reset and fixed gain settings can be chosen from a table.
The AGC can be controlled via the I
2
C-bus. Details can be
found in Sections 7.3.1, 7.3.2 and 7.4.6.
6.1.3
M
IXER
The digitized input signal is passed on to the mixers, which
mix one or both input sound carriers down to zero IF.
A 24-bit control word for each carrier sets the required
frequency. Access to the mixer control word registers is via
the I
2
C-bus (see Sections 7.3.4 and 7.3.5). When
receiving NICAM programs, a feedback signal is added to
the control word of the second carrier mixer to establish a
carrier-frequency loop.
6.1.4
FM
AND
AM
DEMODULATION
An FM or AM input signal is passed through a band-limiting
filter onto a demodulator that can be used for either FM or
AM demodulation. Apart from the standard (fixed)
de-emphasis characteristic, an adaptive de-emphasis is
available for Wegener-Panda 1 encoded satellite
programs.
6.1.5
FM
DECODING
A two-carrier stereo decoder recovers the left and right
signal channels from the demodulated sound carriers.
Both the European and Korean stereo systems are
supported.
6.1.6
FM
IDENTIFICATION
The identification of the FM sound mode is performed by
AM synchronous demodulation of the pilot and
narrow-band detection of the identification frequencies.
The result is available via the I
2
C-bus interface. A selection
can be made via the I
2
C-bus for B/G, D/K and M standard,
and for three different time constants that represent
different trade-offs between speed and reliability of
identification.
6.1.7
NICAM
DEMODULATION
The NICAM signal is transmitted in a DQPSK code at a bit
rate of 728 kbits/s. The NICAM demodulator performs
DQPSK demodulation and passes the resulting bitstream
and clock signal to the NICAM decoder and, for evaluation
purposes, to pins.
A timing loop controls the frequency of the crystal oscillator
to lock the sampling instants to the symbol timing of the
NICAM data. The polarity of the control signal is selectable
to support applications, in which external circuitry is used
to boost the tuning voltage of the oscillator.
6.1.8
NICAM
DECODING
The device performs all decoding functions in accordance
with the “EBU NICAM 728 specification” After locking to
the frame alignment word, the data are descrambled by
application of the defined pseudo-random binary
sequence, and the device synchronizes to the periodic
frame flag bit C0.
The status of the NICAM decoder can be read-out from the
NICAM Status Register by the user (see Section 7.4.2).
The OSB bit indicates that the decoder has locked to the
NICAM data. The VDSP bit indicates that the decoder has
locked to the NICAM data and that the data is valid sound
data. The C4 bit indicates that the sound conveyed by the
FM mono channel is identical to the sound conveyed by
the NICAM channel. The error byte contains the number of
sound sample errors, resulting from parity checking, that
occurred in the past 128 ms period. The Bit Error Rate
(BER) is approximately 0.0000174 times the contents of
the error byte.
total bits
BER
bit errors
error byte
1.74
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