Abstract:
A tuner includes an analog block, a digital block, and an analog/digital conversion stage connected therebetween. The analog block includes a first attenuator/controlled-gain amplifier stage connected upstream to a frequency transposition stage. The overall mean power of the entire signal received by the tuner is calculated during a phase of initialization. This overall calculated power is compared in the digital block with a first predetermined reference value corresponding to a maximum power desired at a predetermined location of the analog block. The gain of the first attenuator/amplifier stage is adjusted to minimize the deviation between the overall calculated power and the reference value. In a phase of normal operation, one of the channels of the signal received is selected, with the gain of the first attenuator/ amplifier stage being fixed.
Abstract:
A phase-locked loop comprising a comparator generating a control voltage depending on the phase-shift between a reference signal and a feedback signal, an oscillator controlled by the control voltage, generating several phase-shifted signals of same period, one of which forms the output signal of the phase-locked loop, a multiplexer capable of providing any of the phase-shifted signals to the input of a divider, the output of which forms the feedback signal, and a means controlling the multiplexer to successively provide fractions of the phase-shifted signals, so that the divider receives a signal having an average period equal to a real fraction of the period of the phase-shifted signals.
Abstract:
The component, fully integrated onto a monolithic substrate, includes a tuner, a demodulator, and a channel decoder. The overall filtering is carried out in two parts, a baseband analog filtering and a digital Nyquist filtering removing the information of adjacent channels. It outputs a stream of MPEG data.