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Key ICs

One chip MPEG2/4-SD & HD Decoder integrated with DVB-S/S2 demodulator

STi7111[Cut 3.0]

• Video Decoding: MPEG2/4-SD & HD   
• Audio Decoding: MPEG1, AC3, AC3+
• Demodulator: DVB-S & S2

Memory

Flash ROM (NOR Flash) [16bit bus]

ST (M29W128GSL)
(S29GL128N10FIS1)

1x 16Mbytes

DDRAM [32bit bus]

ELPIDA (E1116AEBG-8E-F)  or
HYNIX(H5PS1G63EFR )

256Mbytes Unified Memory: 2x128MBytes DDR2- SDRAM

EEPROM

ATMEL (AT24C64N-SC27)

1x8Kbytes

Major Components

Digital Tuner

STV6110

• C-Band
• Ku Band

DVB Common Interface

Glueless

CI+ for external descrambling

Smart Card Interface

TDA8024

Interface chip to control Power and Communication between smart card and STi7111 controllers

IR Receiver

PT2221

PT2221

Status Indicator

GPIO based (2 LED)

• 1x Bicolor LED, when Power is on it will be in Green color and in Standby mode it will glow in Red color.
• 1x Yellow LED to indicate Electra Content availability.   

Front Panel Display and Keys

XS3046+ chip based

• I2C driven external XS3046+ based Seven segment display to show 4 digit data information.
• 4x Keys (Power, CH-, CH+ and Menu key) controlled through XS3046+

USB

On-chip USB controller

To connect the external memory keys or Harddisc's for Sofware Upgrading and PVR operations.

Audio and Video Matrix

PIO controlled

• To route the AV output from STB to TV
• Provides Fast blanking control (RGB/CVBS selection)
• Slow blanking control (4:3 / 16:9 selection)
• TV Drive control

Features

Description

DVB-S  /S2 / MPEG4 / HD / USB 2.0 / HDMI / CI+ All backward compatible
Features

Satellite search

User options provided for,

• Search all carriers of DVB-S/S2 from the selected satellite with pre-installed static database
• Auto / Blind / Manual scan support for selected satellite

LNB control

User options provided for,

• 8x LNBs support.
• Ku and C Band support
• LNB association with any active Satellite

DiSEqC control

• Tone burst switch
• Committed & Uncommitted switch control
• DiSEqC 1.0/1.1/1.2 & USALS Motor control

Carrier/ Service Management

Active Service Database

Memory dependent and not contractual;

• 50 Active Satellites
• 8x LNBs
• 5000 records to hold Carriers, TV and Radio services.

LCN

LCN is supported and channel number is assigned from 1 to 5000.

Channel View

Separate TV and Radio list

Channel Organizer

User can organize the TV or Radio channels like: Skip and Lock.

Installation

User choice to Add, Edit and Delete the available Satellite/Carrier in ADB.

Carrier Information

Show the available carriers information in Active Data Base.

Favorite List

Supporting up to 10 Favorite groups with option for any service to be in any one Group.

Delete All

User choice to delete:

• all the available TV services
• all the available Radio services
• all the available carriers

EPG

Memory dependent and not contractual;

• Build & navigation support available for Present/ Following & Schedule EPG information
• 7 (SEVEN) days EPG Schedule

Multi audio selection

If current viewing Service has more than one Audio, then User can choose any one of it.

A/V Features

Video Decoding

MPEG2/4-SD & HD services

Audio Decoding

• MPEG-1 layer I/II
• MPEG-2 layer II
• AC3
• DD+
• AAC
• AAC+ with SPDIF.

Video output i/f

• YPbPr
• HDMI
• SCART 
• CVBS

Aspect ratio support

• 16:9
• 4:3 Letter Box
• 4:3 Full Screen

Video output standard

• NATIVE (The output format is always in its Native format i.e., if the input signal received is PAL, then it will be sent out as PAL )
• PAL
• SECAM
• NTSC

Audio output i/f

• L+R on RCA connectors
• Optical SPDIF output

Time Shift

• Time shift recording with wrap around support for unlimited disk space & time.
• Trick mode support like in normal recorded content playback.

Recording

• Recording will be done on FAT32 file format.
• Recorded content will be stored as encrypted Transport Stream with Service specific PES streams for A/V playback with necessary Subtitle.
• User option is provided to discard or save or rename the recorded content.
• Recording one service while watching any Live service from the same carrier or any recorded content from media.

Normal Playback

At any given time during playback, the user is allowed to select any of Multi audio & Subtitle streams, if present, in the recorded content.

Trick mode playback

• Fast Forward/ Backward: 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x & 32x
• Slow Forward/ Backward: 0.25x, 0.5x & 0.75x
• Pause & Resume
• Step Forward

Recorded content management

• Delete recorded content(s)
• Rename the record

General Features

OSD Language support

English, Arabic, Farsi/ Persian, French, Spanish, Portugese, German, Italian and Russian.

Real Time Clock (not battery backed)

Date & Time management with options for retrieving Time & GMT Offset from either Air (if TDT & TOT are available)

Audio/ Subtitle Language Preference

• Presentation output control of Audio, Subtitle streams based on the user configurable language preference when the respective streams are available with more than one language option.
• If only one language is available then that will be presented automatically even if it doesn’t match with the user preference.
• If no match found even with the presence of multi language streams, the first available stream will be presented by default.

DVB Subtitles

Decode and display DVB SD/HD subtitles (EN300706).

Teletext Magazine & Subtitle decoding

Decode and display the Teletext Magazine and Subtitle data (EN300472) over OSD in English only.

Info banner

Banner position: User selectable banner position either Top (or) Bottom.

I-plate showing Channel name, Satellite name, Transponder Name, Frequency, Symbol rate, Polarization, Now and Next event details with time, Multi audio, Icon to indicate the presence of subtitle and teletext etc...

Volume banner

Displays the volume level from 0 – 32 levels.

Upgrade Software

Code & Data update via:

• RS232 (SureSoft proprietary format)
• USB (FAT32 File format)
• DVB SSU & ESSU compliance S/W upgrade from Air

Timers

Code & Data update via:

• 8 Timers for timer based service switching and Manual Recording.
• 16 Timers supported only for EPG.

Parental Lock

Individual service can be protected from an unauthorized view by child or others

Software Version display

To show the S/W version, H/W version, Loader version & Build Timestamp.

Factory Reset

• Reinitialize all the user settings & preferences to its defaults.
• Clears the Active Database including all User Satellites, Carrier & Service information
• Password will be set to “0000”
• Default OSD Language is English

Auto Update

Automatic OTA searching always timed at 0100hrs in the morning. But if any Event recording or wakeup is booked by User, then Software Upgrade search will not be scheduled for that day and priority will be given for recording.

HDMI

• If HDCP license is available from the hardware manufacturer, then we can by default enable HDCP.
• User options available to select any output resolutions over HDMI.

CONDITIONAL ACCESS

Conax Chipset Pairing support

• Subscription Status
• Event Status
• Token Status
• Change CA PIN
• Maturity Rating
• PPV
• About CONAX CA
• Message Box for host messages
• Finger Print display

COMMON INTERFACE

CI

Common interface module supports the external descrambling of the scrambled services from Air.

CI+

Common Interface Plus implements an additional level of security to the AV contents received through Conditional Access Module (CAM) by the receiver Host CPU (STi7111) from Air.