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PCIe Mini Card DVB-T analog PC TV (PCV540)
General description
Ideal for DVB-T markets, our PCV540 offers a simple and compact way to bring hybrid TV reception and DVR features to power-critical notebook PCs and specialty form factor products such as ‘all-in-one’ PCs.
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Key features
- Hybrid TV reception: worldwide analog and DVB-T digital standards
- PCI Express Mini Card form factor
- Supports TV viewing and recording
- Captures baseband A/V from CE devices
- High-performance hybrid silicon tuner TDA18271
Background information
A complete, low-BoM reference design, the PCV540 handles all TV functionality including worldwide analog TV tuning, DVB-T digital TV tuning and demodulation, analog TV video/stereo decoding and multi-format digital A/V encoding. It comprises only a few key components: a low noise multi-standard tuner, a low-power DVB-T channel decoder and the highly integrated SAA7163FE PC TV IC.
The SAA7163FE decodes broadcast TV video and stereo, and encodes analog A/V for recording features in hardware. This allows you to utilize lower-cost PC CPUs without compromising performance or picture quality. The IC’s advanced functionality ensures high quality reception under the most demanding conditions and includes 3D comb filtering, dynamic echo cancellation, scaling, remote control support, multi-layer content protection (Macrovision detection) and CGMS-A extraction.
Supported on popular Windows OSs and third-party TV/DVR applications, the PCV540 reference design includes a PCIe Mini Card, all necessary drivers, a user manual, schematics, BoM, Gerber files and documentation.