Commsonic develops licensable core technology blocks, ASICs, FPGAs and tools for wireless technologies. We are able to offer an array of core Intellectual Property (IP) for today's hot technology. Commsonic offers engineering design services to adapt and optimise its IP core products for customer applications and can assist with turnkey developments of related chip, software and board-level subsystems. Our expertise is primarily in the gate- and power-efficient implementation of physical-layer (PHY) functions.
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The Commsonic DVB-T Modulator (CMS0009) allows exploitation of this technology by allowing the development of the DVB-T modulator in low-cost FPGA implementation. Applications include CCTV, wireless home networking, and test equipment. The CMS0009 core is intended to provide a very efficient FPGA implementation of all functions required to take the output from an MPEG-2 transport multiplexer and modulate it according to the DVB-T modulation for 2K, 4K, and 8K COFDM modes as well as hierarchical transport systems. For more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The Commsonic CMS0071 ISDB-S3 Demodulator is a high-performance (A)PSK demodulator core intended for ARIB STD-B44 ISDB-S3 advanced wideband digital satellite standard. The demodulator provides an adaptable starting point for receiver sub-systems to be used in the next-generation of digital TV set-top-boxes, VSAT terminals and related test and monitoring equipment. For further or more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The CMS0010 DVB-S modulator / DSNG modulator is an integrated modulator and Reed-Solomon encoder core designed specifically to address the requirements of the ETSI DVB-S forward-link satellite Standard (EN300421). The core can be extended to include the trellis coding as required by the ETSI DVB-DSNG forward-link satellite Standard (EN301210). For further or more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The CMS0070 ISDB-S3 (A)PSK modulator is an integrated modulator and channel-coder core designed specifically to address the requirements of the ARIB STD-B44 advanced wide-band digital satellite broadcasting Standard. For further or more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The CMS0014 has been designed from the ground-up for high-speed and gate-efficient implementation on FPGA and ASIC platforms and offers "near Shannon limit" performance when combined with an advanced LDPC decoder solution. The demodulator provides an adaptable starting point for receiver sub-systems to be used in the next-generation of digital TV set-top-boxes, VSAT terminals and related test and monitoring equipment. For further or more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The CMS0048 has been designed from the ground-up for high-speed and gate-efficient implementation on FPGA and ASIC platforms and offers very high performance when combined with either the integrated FEC decoder or an external advanced FEC decoder. The demodulator provides an adaptable starting point for receiver sub-systems to be used in both the current and next-generation of digital TV set-top-boxes, VSAT terminals and related test and monitoring equipment. For further or more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The CMS0025 DVB-S2 / -S2X (A)PSK modulator is an integrated modulator and channel-coder core designed specifically to address the requirements of the ETSI DVB-S2 forward-link satellite standard (EN302307) including the DVB-S2X extensions. The core can operate in CCM and VCM/ACM modes and is fully compliant with the standard. For further or more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The ISDB-T modulator / ISDB-TB modulator core enables rapid development of audio and visual systems using commodity free-to-air set-top-box products. The specification is fully supported by the ISDB-T modulator for 2K, 4K and 8K COFDM modes as well as hierarchical transport streams. The ISDB-T modulator / ISDB-TB modulator targets SDRAM for minimum cost but also supports synchronous SRAM or internal FPGA RAM, allowing flexible implementation on a range of platforms. For more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The CMS0022 Cable (QAM) Demodulator is fully compliant with the European, US and Japanese downlink cable standards DVB-C EN 300 429 and ITU J83 Annexes A/B/C (including DOCSIS 1.1/2.0). The core provides all the necessary functions between modulated QAM input to transport stream output. J.83B designs can operate either from internal memory (short interleaving modes) or from shared external memory (long interleaving modes) by means of a versatile access controller. For more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The DVB-T2 Modulator core provides a very efficient FPGA implementation of all functions required to modulate the output from a MPEG-2 transport multiplexer according to the DVB-T2 ETSI EN302 755. The DVB-T2 modulator core is compliant with the specification and fully supports 1K, 2K, 4K, 8K, 16K and 32K COFDM modes. The DVB-T2 core features an integrated normal- and short-frame length BCH/LDPC encoder. L1FIELD padding, encoding and puncturing are performed automatically. Support for single or multiple PLP network configurations, T2-Lite, T2MI and SFN profiles. For more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The CMS0069 DVB-CID modulator is an integrated modulator and channel-coder core designed specifically to address the requirements of the ETSI DVB-CID carrier identification standard (EN103129). For further or more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The Commsonic multi-channel ATSC 8-VSB modulator (CMS0038) with integrated channel coders are designed specifically to implement the 8-VSB requirements of the ATSC Digital Television Standard (A/53). The core provides all the necessary processing for 8-VSB modulation of up to four transport streams. Supported output formats include baseband in-phase and quadrature (IQ) and IF. Every effort has been made to keep the size of the block to an absolute minimum in order to target the low-cost FPGA families;however this has not been at the expense of functionality. For further or more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The CMS0024 Cable Modulator is fully compliant with the European, US, and Japanese downlink cable standards DVB-C and J.83abc, providing all the necessary functions between transport stream input and QAM output. The core can be configured to support from one to four FDM channels with additional (independent) channels accommodated by the instantiation of multiple single or multi-channel cores per FPGA. For more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.
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The Commsonic CMS0077 Satellite FEC Decoder has been designed specifically to meet the requirements of the DVB-S2, DVB-S2X and ISDB-S3 advanced wide-band digital satellite standards. The core integrates seamlessly with the Commsonic CMS0059 DVB-S2 / DVB-S2X / ISDB-S3 physical layer demodulator core to provide a complete satellite decoding solution. The core provides all the necessary processing steps to convert a demodulated complex I/Q signal into a standard TS output stream. If configured for ACM operation, the FEC mode can dynamically change on a frame-by-frame basis. For further or more up-to-date information about this core, please visit our website.