CX24143

Set-top Box Solutions Satellite Single-Chip FTA and FTA-CI Set-Top Box System Solution CX24142/3/6/7 Complete IC System Solution for Worldwide FTA and FTA-CI Platforms Conexant’s broadband communications portfolio includes a comprehensive suite of semiconductor solutions that enable the digital home and information network. Conexant’s Single-Chip Free-To-Air (FTA) and FTA-Common Interface (FTA-CI) Set-top box (STB) System Solution features all the major subsystems required to implement the core system and decoder electronics of a DVB-compliant FTA-CI STBs. The CX24142/3/6/7 IC family includes an MPEG-2 A/V decoder (Dolby Digital audio is optional), transport processor, a 32-bit RISC CPU, a hardware 2D graphics accelerator, TV encoder, QPSK demodulator (CX24142/3 only), a video/graphics display compositing controller, support for dual DVB-CI interface (CX24142/6 only), and a set of peripheral I/O ports for set-top box front and back panel connectors. For a complete system hardware design, the only www.DataSheet4U.com additional components required are a tuner, modem codec (optional), audio DAC, SDRAM and flash memory ICs. This high level of integration results in a very lowcost system bill-of-materials for FTA and FTA-CI STB markets worldwide. Common Platform for Satellite, Cable, and Terrestrial STB manufacturers increasingly look to leverage a common hardware platform that can be reused over various broadband networks including satellite, cable, terrestrial, DSL and Ethern...