VATek preps turnkey digital TV modulator
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Michelle Clancy
| 22 May 2017

VATek is prepping a turnkey solution and smart headend application for digital-TV modulator products.

The idea is to make the next generation of digital TV headend products easy to operate and develop. VATek’s turnkey development board is divided into two parts: the control board and main board. In the middle of these two parts, it uses the common Raspberry Pi 40 pins to be the interface, and clearly defines each pin function. Developers can use their own microprocessor platform to control the VATek modulation board.

VATek’s B2 ENMODER, a SOC chip, is integrated. It includes the FHD MPEG-2 encoder and multi-formats modulator, and modulation formats have DVB T/C, ATSC/QAM, DTMB and ISDB-T. Audio is also supported in worldwide formats MPEG1 Layer2, AAC-LC and Dolby AC3.

“We simplify the complexity of the system, that the production costs less than half of the FPGA architecture,” the company explained. “The RF mixer is collocated with VATek R2 chip, and the frequency support 50MHz to 1GHz. We integrate modulator and RF mixer chip to enhance the RF quality. Overall, VATek turnkey solution is a cost-effective product, and meets the world's specifications.”