Type: Own development
Status: Licensed to Reel Multimedia for usage in Reelbox Avantgarde
Keywords: DVB, IPv6, streaming, multicast, FPGA, System-on-Chip (SoC), DDR, PCI, AVR, VHDL, PCB Design, Embedded SW, uCLinux, Linux drivers, XML
Description:
Full PCB
Detailed View at FPGA Section
- The NetCeiver concept is described in a White Paper
- SVN with plugin for vdr and LPGL’ed access library: https://svn.baycom.de/repos/vdr-mcli-plugin/
- Standalone PCB (4 layers)
- FPGA XC3S1600E (BGA with 320balls)
- DDR (64MByte, 16bit, 132MHz)
- Two PCI slots (32MHz, 32Bit)
- Gigabit Ethernet PCI card (Realtek 8169)
- 3 tuner slots for max. 6 DVB TS inputs
- 2 CI slots, 3rd with optional PCB
- ATMega64 with MMC/SD card slot for FPGA firmware and OS
- Tuner/LNB current measurement
- Power supply and power management
- FPGA contains full SoC
- Microblaze CPU (66MHz) with 8+8kByte I/D-cache
- 8kByte BIOS
- DDR controller with 5 internal ports (own development, up to 400MBytes/s bandwidth)
- PCI host/target (own development)
- PCI arbiter
- TS interface and switch matrix for 6 tuners and 2 CAMs
- 32 full PID filters (8192 entries) with attributes for complex TS datapath handling
- MTD/Multi-Transponder-Decryption: TS-re-multiplexing and PID-rewriting for decrypting services from different transponders with only one CAM
- TS packet aggregation of PIDs and IPv6 packet assembly incl. UDP checksum
- Tuner input datapath capable of handling up to 42MBytes/s (6 full DVB-S2 transponders)
- Fast DMA interface handling for ethernet packet generation (>100MBytes/s, no PCI waitstates)
- Various interfaces (6*I2C bitbanging&DMA, GPIO, IO-bus to AVR, SPI, multiplexed CI)
- Timer and interrupt controller
- Internal clock management (132/66/32MHz out of 16MHz master clock, DDR calibration)
- Embedded firmware for AVR and Microblaze
- MMC/SD initialisation and firmware selection
- FPGA bitstream upload
- HW setup (DDR clock phase calibration, GPIOs, …)
- PCI setup
- Bootloader for uCLinux
- IPv6 multicast streaming server
- HW support (TS, PID-filtering, streaming, DMA, I2C)
- Tuner drivers
- MLD protocol handling
- Intelligent resource management
- XML capability and status broadcasts
- Full DVB-API compatible client SW
- Plugin for vdr
- DVB loopback driver
- Client daemon