HARRIS SELECT XILINX PLATFORM FOR DIGITAL TV TRANSMITTER

HARRIS Broadcast Europe, one of the leaders in technology for the global standard Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T) market, have announced that they have selected Xilinx Platform Virtex’-II FPGA to complete successful development of their SPOT low power digital TV transmitter.
The high density and large internal memory of the Xilinx FPGA allowed Harris Broadcast Europe to implement a complete Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (COFDM) modulator for DVB-T.
Harris are among a growing number of customers using Xilinx FPGAs to develop products for the digital video market.
COFDM modulation is fundamental to many broadcast standards such as DVB-T, DAB, and DRM, which are being adopted in territories worldwide. As applied in the DVB-T standard widely adopted around the world, COFDM modulation has 120 modes requiring either 2k or 8k Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) and high accuracy processing.
Harris have also implemented complete Reed-Solomon and convolutional coding algorithms on board the Xilinx FPGA, as well as further digital filtering to create a fully DVB-T compliant COFDM modulator. SPOT is part of a complete range of digital and analogue transmission solutions from Harris. (CD)