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PCI Board

Standard DVB Support MPEG2: ISO/IEC 13818-1 Support

MPEG2: ISO/IEC 13818-6 Support
ISO/IEC 13818-2 Support
ISO/IEC 13818-3 Support
DVB-Data: ETSI EN 301 192 V1.1.1 Support

RF Tuner Input Signal Level (Channel power) -25 to -65Bm

Dynamic Range 40dB Typical
L-band Receiving Frequency Range 950 - 2150MHz
External Connectors F Type Female
Nominal Input Impedance 75ohm
RF Filter Bandwidth Direct Conversion Tuner
RF Input Return Loss 6dB
L/O Leakage at RF Input -80dBm, Max -63dBm
IF Frequency Direct conversion tuner
IF Bandwidth Direct conversion tuner
SCPC / MCPC Yes, both.
Image Rejection 40dBc
Phase Noise -75dBc @10kHz, Max -
70dBc @10kHz
Noise Figure 6-12 dB

LNB Power and Switching Supply Voltage (LNB polarity) 13/18V

Maximum LNB Current 350mA
Antenna Control Signal 22, 33 and 44kHz
DiSEqC 1.0, 1.1
Short Circuit Protection Yes
Other Relevant Information Software controlled power

QPSK Symbol Rates 2-29 MS/s

Filtering 0.35 Nyquist Half BW
Viterbi 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8,
Inner Auto Sense
Reed-Solomon Outer Code (k+T,K,T) (204, 188, 8)

Tuner Status Signal Strength Yes

Signal Lock Yes
Uncorrected Blocks Yes

PC Interface Computer Bus PCI

Interface Protocol PCI 2.1
Host Bus Width 32bit
Host Bus Burst Rate 133MB/s burst to host
PCI Bus master 32bit DMA

Data Rate Aggregate throughput 42,5 Mbps

No of simultaneous streams 39 PIDs

Demultiplexing Maximum Input Rate 100 Mbps

Maximum No. Data Stream 33+
Maximum No. Section Filters 33+
No. Sections Per Packet Unlimited

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PCI Board

Operating System Support Windows 98 (Second Edition) Yes

Windows Me Yes
Windows NT SP 6 Yes
Windows 2000 Pro / Server Yes
Windows XP Yes

Software Compatibilities UDP/TCP/IP Protocol Yes

PSI/SI Private Tables Yes
LLC SNAP/Null Encapsulation Yes
Multiple Application Support Yes
Ready for Downloading Firmware Yes
In-band Signaling Capability Yes

Hardware Compatibilities Multiprotocol Encapsulation (MPE) Yes

Compliant
Datagram and Section Packing Yes
ECM, EMM to the Bus Yes
PES and TS Data Filtering Yes
Unicast/Multicast Filtering Yes
No. MAC Addresses Filters 33
No. PID Filters 39
No. Section Filters 33
Intel Chipset (810 to 815) Compatibilities All
Max. Number of Mac Addresses per PID Unlimited

MPEG Video Defcoding Support MPEG-2 Video MP@ML Syntax Yes

GOP structure support I, P and B Yes
Video bit rate range Unlimited
Resolution for TV and VGA 800 X 600 X 256 Minimum

MPEG Audio Defcoding Audio bit rate range Unlimited

Physical / Environmental PCI Dimensions 133 mm x 100 mm

PCI 2.1 compliant
Operating Temperature 0-45 C°
Storage Temperature 0-80 C°
Operating Humidity 0-85 %
Weight 4,8 oz.
MTBF 20,000 hours

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