World's first single-chip tuner for FTA satellite DTV receivers

[FCCboy]

Zarlink finally brought it to the market!

The new tuner includes a high-performance LNA, which means GOODBYE to RF circuitry. This could lower prices by a little too!

Exciting!!!

 

[scupmando]

If this means faster blind scanning and less heat generation; then I want it in pci cards immediately! Only a matter of time before this market really takes off(dishnetwork pirates
will soon be fta converts) and the receivers become more robust. The demand is there.
Nice find by the way!

 

[greyskies]

Read up on zarlink's website. This truly looks very promising for all sorts of uses:

"The ZL10039 device is a single-chip wideband direct conversion tuner for 1 – 45 MSps (megasymbols per second) DVB-S (Digital Video Broadcast-Satellite), DSS (Digital Satellite System), and 8PSK (8-phase shift keying) receiver systems....

Zarlink’s ZLE10541 reference design, combining the ZL10039 tuner with the ZL10313 demodulator, offers key features including high speed “blind scan” – an on-chip hard-wired controller that enables the chip to achieve ultra-fast channel scanning capability with little intervention from an external processor. The demodulator provides strong performance across the whole satellite 1 – 45 MSps DVB-S symbol rate range....

Typical Applications

* DVB-S Free-to-Air Satellite receiver systems
* 8PSK Satellite Receiver Systems"

CAN'T WAIT FOR THEIR CHIPSETS TO BE INCORPORATED INTO STBS.
NOW IN PRODUCTION ACCORDING TO THEIR PRESS RELEASES.

greyskies in sunny South Florida