NetUP Dual DVB-T/C-CI

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Professional high-density DVB-T & DVB-C PCI-e card

Overview

The NetUP Dual DVB-T/C-CI is a professional PCI-e card that can receive both terrestrial & cable TV. The card is intended for high-density appliances such as DVB to IP gateways, home theaters, etc. In contrast to usual DVB-T and DVB-C cards NetUP's Dual DVB-T/C-CI provides a unique versatility and high density - it combines functions of two DVB-T PCI-e cards or two DVB-C PCI-e cards in one board. It can be also used to receive modulated analog TV signal. Moreover, two DVB tuners and two Common Interface (CI) slots occupy only one PCI-e slot. This allows saving space on installation and using the card in confined environments. For example, a standard 1U rack-mount server with two PCI-e slots can receive and decode 4 DVB-C transponders or 4 DVB-T multiplexes, such as NetUP's IPTV Combine 4x or DVB-IP gateway 4x.

Features

• two DVB-T/DVB-C inputs – simultaneous reception of two DVB-T multiplexes or DVB-C transponders or two modulated analog TV channels
• two CI slots – independent descrambling of two transponders/multiplexes
• support of any professional CA modules (e.g., PowerCAM Pro, Aston Pro Solutions, SMiT, etc.)
• PCE-e x1
• drivers for Linux OS

Components Used

• Conexant CX23885
• STM STV0367 low-power and ultra-compact combo DVB-T/C single-chip receiver
• Xceive XC5000 silicon TV tuner
• Altera FPGA for Common Interface

Making it work

Check out linux kernel (experimental):

git clone http://udev.netup.ru/git/v4l-dvb.git linux-2.6.35-netup cd linux-2.6.35-netup make menuconfig make && make modules_install && make install

Change grub menu.lst config to boot new kernel (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35+).

Install firmware files into /lib/firmware folder:

wget http://www.netup.tv/downloads/netup-dvb-t-c_firmware-v0.1.tbz2 tar xvfj netup-dvb-t-c_firmware-v0.1.tbz2 cp netup-dvb-t-c_firmware-v0.1/* /lib/firmware/ 

Tuning to DVB-C and DVB-T

Each port can be tuned to DVB-T or DVB-C using frontend0 or frontend1 accordingly.

For DVB-T use frontend0:

# tzap modul64 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' reading channels from file '/root/.tzap/channels.conf' tuning to 578000000 Hz video pid 0x0000, audio pid 0x0821 status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 10 | signal 0000 | snr 001b | ber bf8ec9c8 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 10 | signal 0000 | snr 001b | ber bf8ec9c8 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 10 | signal 0000 | snr 001b | ber bf8ec9c8 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK

For DVB-C use frontend1:

# czap -f 1 modul64 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' reading channels from file '/root/.czap/channels.conf'   2 modul64:578000000:INVERSION_AUTO:5900000:FEC_NONE:QAM_128:515:672:1509   2 modul64: f 578000000, s 5900000, i 2, fec 0, qam 4, v 0x203, a 0x2a0, s 0x5e5 status 10 | signal ffff | snr b851 | ber 00000000 | unc 0000000b | FE_HAS_LOCK status 10 | signal ffff | snr ca3c | ber 00000000 | unc 0000000b | FE_HAS_LOCK