STMicroelectronics Announces Volume Production of Industry-Unique Satellite Demodulator with Lead Customer Newtec
March 08 2017 - 11:01AM
Newtec brings first-ever VSAT modem on the market
supporting 500Mbaud forward carriers with DVB-S2X, thanks to ST
technology
Geneva, Switzerland - March 8, 2017 -STMicroelectronics
(NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across
the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced the
volume production of the world's first 500Mbaud High Symbol Rate
(HSR) integrated tuner-demodulator chip, selected by its lead
customer Newtec, a specialist in designing, developing, and
manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite
communications.
Designed to increase bandwidth-usage efficiency and throughput
in high-end satellite and hybrid broadband-broadcast applications,
the STiD135 demodulator supports the DVB-S2, DVB-S2X, and DVB-S2
Annex-M[1] standards and is intended to complement terrestrial
networks to provide a performance equivalent to fiber-optic links,
taking advantage of the universal accessibility of satellite
signals.
Newtec will use the STiD135 in its wideband VSAT modem
portfolio. The Newtec MDM2210 IP Satellite Modem, which is the
latest addition to the Newtec Dialog® multiservice platform, is the
first-ever VSAT[2] modem on the market supporting 500Mbaud forward
carriers with DVB-S2X.
"The long-term cooperation with our lead
customer Newtec has now resulted in bringing the unique
capabilities of our satellite demodulator to the market," said
Jocelyne Garnier, Group VP, General Manager, Aerospace, Defense,
and Legacy Division, STMicroelectronics. "When designing the chip,
we took into account the market's demands and worked with many
partners, including CNES, the French Space Agency."
"We are delighted to cooperate with ST, which, as far as we are
concerned, provides the only chip available on the market capable
of handling such high rates, the likes of which are enabled by our
new wideband modems," said Frederik Simoens, Chief Technology
Officer at Newtec. "The cooperation will make our products the
first on the market to support 500Mbaud forward carriers with
DVB-S2X, guaranteeing our customers the highest performance and
efficiencies."
The ST chip implements quad full-band tuners, dual HSR
demodulators with up to eight narrow-band demodulators, and
provides hardware support for Network Clock Recovery (NCR). It
optimizes the use of Ka-band and multi-spot beam technology carried
by the latest High-Throughput Satellites (HTS) by enabling
single-carrier usage of these transponders. This delivers a 30%
increase in channel efficiency over multi-carrier
solutions.
The STiD135 is capable of demodulating two independent wide-band
carriers and up to eight narrow-band carriers providing the
capability to simultaneously receive high throughput data whilst
receiving multiple broadcast channels, useful for example, in
hybrid broadband-broadcast systems. The total useful data
throughput is over 600Mbits per second, furthermore the on-chip
data filtering ensures that only the wanted bits need be sent for
further processing in the host system.
The design took into full account the demands of the market for
low power and extended temperature range increasing the scope and
application of the device to include out-door units, Smart LNBs,
hybrid broadband-broadcast home gateways, VSAT terminals, small
home-office modems, mobile platforms, data center modems, and so
on.
The STiD135 demodulator chip is now in production and will be
available for mass-market deployment by May 2017. Further
information is available on www.ST.com and under NDA.
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving
customers across the spectrum of sense and power and automotive
products and embedded processing solutions. From energy management
and savings to trust and data security, from healthcare and
wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office, at
work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a
positive and innovative contribution to people's life. By getting
more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for
life.augmented.
In 2016, the Company's net revenues were $6.97 billion. Further
information on ST can be found at www.st.com.
For Press Information Contact:
STMicroelectronics Michael Markowitz Director of Technical Media
Relations +1 781 591 0354 michael.markowitz@st.com
[1] DVB-S2 (ETSI EN 302 307 part 1), DVB-S2X (ETSI EN 302 307
part 2) and DVB-S2 Annex-M parts of the DVB-S2 standard.
[2] According to Wikipedia, Very Small Aperture
Terminal (VSAT) is a two-way satellite ground
station with a dish antenna that is smaller than 3
meters
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