new TV Tuner Chip, the Si2177

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Sylvain AZARIAN sylvain.azarian at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 17:35:25 UTC 2013


It seems the chip does not output the raw I and Q values... It means there
is nothing to do with it except watching tv, exactly the converse of
existing tuners ;-)

regards
sylvain


2013/9/19 Jay Salsburg <jsalsburg at bellsouth.net>

> I just received a Product Announcement from SILICON LABS. There new TV
> Tuner Chip, the Si2177, appears to be able to demodulate Analog TV directly
> on the chip without software. If I am not mistaken, this function is a new
> feature in TV Tuner Chips, which may provide a much better SDR than current
> TV Tuner Chip Dongles, especially when it comes to noise performance. It
> also eliminates almost all external components. RF Input Frequency Range -
> 42 to 870 MHz
>
> Si2177 5th Generation Silicon TV Tuner ICs
>
> http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/Si2177-short.pdf
>
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