new TV Tuner Chip, the Si2177

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Rasz citizenr at gmail.com
Sat Sep 21 15:39:34 UTC 2013


On 9/21/13, Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net> wrote:
> From what I can find, an analogue TV signal has a
> bandwidth of around 6-8MHz.  The HackRF is an SDR that works over
> USB2.0 and can capture a chunk of RF spectrum up to 20MHz, which
> should be ample for one analogue (or even digital) TV signal, perhaps
> even two if the channels are close enough together.

USB 2.0 has no problem with 30MB/s, and if you take care of all the
quirks (only 1 device, no programs running, "turbo mode" aka >1MB bulk
transfers) you can go up to ~40MB/s

>> How much is actually needed? You know there's USB 3 these days,
>> which can transmit about a megabit with some change (due to
>> overhead).
>
> A megabit? :-)  USB3.0 has a signalling rate of 5Gbps and according to
> Wikipedia, a usable data rate of up to 4Gbps.  If you can fit 20MHz of
> RF over USB2.0 at 480Mbps, you should be able to start approaching
> 200MHz of bandwidth with a USB3.0 SDR!

Cypress FX3 does 360MB/s in real life.


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