HD Radio technology
- HD Radio signal decoding for AM and FM digital audio
- Supports HD Radio single, dual and triple tuner use cases
- HD all-digital mode support
- SAF3604: On-chip FM-tuner for data service reception
- Dual baseband input interface using I²S-bus derivative with I/Q
- Secondary baseband interface for dual tuner applications
- Data services support for HD Radio reception
- Electronic Program Guide (EPG)
- Off-chip LOT processing
- Enhanced reception through Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC)
DRM
- DRM signal decoding for AM and FM digital audio
- Prepared for dual DRM support with background scanning or data services from
second station
- Frontend to baseband interface through serial I²S-bus type interface
- Prepared for secondary baseband interface for dual tuner applications
- Channel decoder reception improvements
- Supports xHE-AAC codec
- Prepared for DRM+
DAB, DAB+ and T-DMB radio technology
- Dual reception processing with on-chip dual DAB front-end, ADC, memory and source
decoding
- Data service reception and filtering
- Full dual ensemble processing (2 × 1.8 Mbit/s)
- Optional third tuner input via serial I²S-bus type interface
- Integrated DAB-FM/ DAB-DAB time alignment and seamless blending
- Integrated support for all actual audio codecs (AAC, HE-AAC, MP2, BSAC)
- (Optional) Additional features:
- Reception improvement algorithms for single antenna systems delivering
additionally improved BER
- Diversity reception improvement through advanced Maximum Ratio Combining
(MRC) algorithms leveraging dual antenna diversity
- Third external tuner supports enabling background service scan or data services in
case of two primary Saturn tuners are used for antenna diversity reception
Digital audio
- Up to 6 channel (5.1) audio support through TDM audio interface or triple I²S
- Programmable audio sample rate converter (8 kHz to 48 kHz) for up to 6 channels
- I²S audio input for auxiliary processing
- Optional SRC (8 kHz to 48 kHz) for I²S-bus input
- Optional support for input and output 96 kHz sample rate conversion
- Basic audio processing for external digital audio sources
- Advanced audio processing (contact NXP for a list of supported audio processing
features
Other peripheral interfaces
- Two I²C-bus interfaces
- Two Serial Peripheral Interfaces (SPI)
- One High-Speed Serial Peripheral Interface (HS-SPI)
- One UART interface
- 16 individual GPIO pins for applications and diagnostics
- One JTAG interface for diagnostics
Additional features
- Secure boot, image authentication
- Identical radio architecture with the same chip and specific software for various
standards including DAB, HD Radio and DRM
- Radio control reuse from SAF356X with same API
- In field software upgrade possibility
- One internal clock oscillator and two internal Phase-Locked Loops (PLL)
- Powerful signal, audio processing core architecture
- Qualified in accordance with AEC-Q100
Remark: Not all features are available on all variants or in all combinations. Contact NXP
sales for more information.
Target Applications
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Application depends on usages and reception standard
