Configurable, Highly-Integrated Satellite Receiver

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016080098-A1
Application number	US-201514948436-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 23, 2015
Priority date	Dec 12, 2011
Publication date	Mar 17, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A direct broadcast satellite (DBS) reception assembly may comprise an integrated circuit that is configurable between or among a plurality of configurations based on content requested by client devices served by the DBS reception assembly. In a first configuration, multiple satellite frequency bands may be digitized by the integrated circuit as a single wideband signal. In a second configuration, the satellite frequency bands may be digitized by the integrated circuit as a plurality of separate narrowband signals. The integrated circuit may comprise a plurality of receive paths, each of the receive chains comprising a respective one of a plurality of low noise amplifiers and a plurality of analog-to-digital converters.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system comprising:
a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and/or Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) reception assembly, the DBS and/or FSS receiver comprising control logic and one or more receive chains, wherein:
said one or more receive chains are configurable into a narrowband configuration and a wideband configuration;
said control logic is operable to control which of said narrowband configuration and said wideband configuration that said one or more rec…

Assignees

• Maxlinear Inc

Inventors

• Chang Glenn
• Pullela Raja
• Reddy Madhukar
• Gallagher Timothy
• Swaroop Shanta Murthy Prem
• Ling Curtis
• Paidi Vamsi
• Chen Wenjian

Classifications

• H04N21/6143

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H40/90 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic