DVB ASI Cards with N+! Redundancy Features

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Two independent channel receive (useful for N+1 redundancy) and single channel send DVB ASI PCI 2.2 Interface Card with Accurate (25 ppm) Clock, Unlimited PID Filtering, Jitter Management, Packet Arrival Timestamping, Auto Null Packet Insertion, internal and external loopback, internal transport stream quality monitor, HW serial number, GPIO triggers, and software or external switch controlled relay based forced Loop Through. Optional (2.5 PPM) High Stability Oscillator, Optional Secondary Input, and Optional Failover Relay.

• 270 Mbits/sec DVB ASI transmitter and receiver on one card
• Two DVB ASI inputs; secondary input via header
• A/B input selection is software controlled
• Two buffered ASI outputs
• Optional dual DVB-ASI Inputs
• Drivers for Windows® and Linux®
• Windows XP/Server 2003/Server 2008/Linux API
• Single Lane PCI Express interface
• Signal quality sensing support in hardware
• External clock input via NTSC or PAL black burst signal
• Firmware controlled support for bypass mode
• “Snoop” function allows access to input data while in bypass mode
• Control Interface port
• o 6 GPI optically isolated inputs
  o External override input for the mechanical bypass relay
  o Status output for firmware loop back
  o LED Status for TX, Rx, Sync, and Carrier
  o One general purpose control output
• Watchdog timer based on a 40 MHz 32-bit counter
• Silicon serial number
• Firmware is field upgradeable
• Software selectable transmit clock source
• Support for SMPTE 325
• Accurate 25 PPM clock -- standard
• Automatic Null Packet Insertion
• Scatter Gather DMA
• Hardware PID Filtering
• Packet arrival Time Stamping
• Jitter Management
• Compliant with DVB Standard A010 Rev1 and EN 50083
• Optional mechanical relay bypasses primary input to primary output on power failure
• Optional High Stability Oscillator with less than 2.5 ppm drift, meeting ATSC specifications
• Patent pending on key architecture
  

Applications:

• Video servers
• Datacasting and monitoring
• Electronic Program Guides (EPGs)
• Interface DVB MPEG-2 transport streams to the PCIe bus
• PID filtering of transport streams
• IP - DVB interfaces
• Data over DVB
• Interface DVB to ATSC
  
  

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