1.0 Introduction
1.1 Scope of this book
1.2 Historical background of COFDM
1.3 Historical background to VSB
1.4 Technological advances making
digital TV possible
I Programming Data Stream Structure
2.0 MPEG 2 transport stream
2.1 The transport packet
2.2 The transport packet header
2.3 The transport packet payload
2.4 Program Specific Information (PSI)
2.5 Program Specific Information (PSI)
Tables
2.6 Service Information (SI) Tables
3.0 MPEG 2 compression
3.1 MPEG levels and profiles
3.2 The compression algorithm
4.0 Error correction
II COFDM
5.0 COFDM description
5.1 Frequency spectrum
5.2 Digital TV transmission requirements
5.3 OFDM frame structure
5.4 The guard interval
5.5 The TPS carriers
5.6 The pilot carriers
6.0 0verall transmission sequence
6.1 Energy dispersal
6.2 Outer coding
6.3 Outer interleaving
6.4 Inner coding
6.5 Bit-wise interleaving
6.6 Symbol interleaving
6.7 Amplitude/phase mapping
6.8 Pilots and TPS addition
6.9 Inverse FFT
6.10 Time shift and combination
6.11 Guard interval insertion
6.12 DAC and filtering
6.13 Upconversion and transmission
7.0 OFDM theory
7.1 Frequency Division Multiplexing
(FDM)
7.2 Digital FDM
7.3 Orthogonality
7.4 Digital FDM functional blocks
III Set Top Box (STB) Architecture
8.0 Digital TV front end
8.1 Analogue front end
8.2 Frequency and time synchronisation
8.3 Digital I and Q generation
8.4 Frequency correction
8.5 OFDM demultiplexing
8.6 Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
8.7 Channel estimation and correction
8.8 Demapping
8.9 Inner deinterleaving
8.10 Depuncturing
8.11 Inner decoding
8.12 Outer de-interleaving
8.13 Outer decoding
8.14 De-randomising
8.15 Byte rate smoothing
8.16 MPEG-2 transport stream interface
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9.0 Digital TV
9.1 Demultiplexing
9.2 Conditional access
( Common Interface)
10.0 Silicon implementation
11.0 STB software IV ATSC Principals
IV ATSC Principles
12.0 ATSC 8-VSB system
12.1 The ATSC implementation of 8-VSB
system
12.2 Structure of the trellis 8-VSB spectrum
12.3 Structure of the trellis 8-VSB data frame
12.4 Overall transmission sequence
12.5 8-VSB useful bit rate
V DVB-T COFDM Vs ATSC 8-VSB
13.0 DVB-T COFDM and ATSC 8-VSB
compared
13.1 Main system difference
VI HDTV and Related Topics
14.0 High Definition Television (HDTV)
14.1 HDTV functional blocks
15.0 Audio standards
15.1 Dolby â
15.2 SRS labs
16.0 The future, interactivity and
interoperability
VII Standard Theory
17.0 Complex numbers
17.1 Phasor representation
17.2 Waveform techniques
18.0 Modulation techniques
19.0 Fourier analysis
19.1 Representation of functions by sine
and cosine terms
19.2 Derivation of the Continuous Fourier
Transform
19.3 The Discrete Fourier Transform
19.4 Example application of the CFT
19.5 The Fast Fourier Transformation
19.6 Orthogonality
20.0 Vestigial Side Band VSB
21.0 Power and noise in communications
system
21.1 The decibel (dB)
21.2 The dB as a power measurement
21.3 Conversion between dBm and dBmV
21.4 Bandwidth impact on power measure-
ments
References
Glossary of Abbreviations, Terms and
Expressions
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Additions to 2nd edition
Updates and changes to the main items of the
first edition have been made with the main new
sections as shown here:
III Set Top Box (STB) Architecture
• Conditional access
• Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)
• MHP interfaces
• MHP architecture
• MHP application to system s/w i/f
• Plug-ins
• Transport protocols
• Interaction channel protocols
• Applications
• The Java virtual machine (JVM)
• Interoperability
• Hardware requirements of MHP
• The Java Language
• Java classes
• Java applets
• Java beans
VI HDTV, the Future and Related Topics
• The future, Interactivity and interoperability
• Advanced STB architectures
• Mobile DVB-T and DVB-H
• Diversity solutions
• DVB-H |
