ENSIGMA COMMUNICATIONS IP CORES

The Universal Communications Coprocessor (UCC) is at the heart of all of our ENSIGMA communications products. This unique architecture comprises three key engines:

SCP (Signal Conditioning Processor)

Configurable hardware that enables a wide range of of low IF and zero IF tuners to be connected to UCC. SCP samples the IF signal, retimes it and performs front end filtering and other signal conditioning to deliver consistent, high precision IF data samples to the demodulation processor. It is the SCP that makes the UCC very easy to integrate with a wide range of RF solutions.

MCP (Modulation Control Processor)

The MCP delivers the unrivalled flexibility of the UCC. An advanced vector processor with multiple parallel execution units, the MCP is fully programmable using low level microcode, to enable demodulation of almost any analogue or digital modulation standard, from FM or DAB radio, through to DVB-T or PAL TV, or DVB-H or ISDB-T mobile TV. All with the same silicon engine, and using silicon area that rivals many of the industry's leading single standard solutions available today.

ECP (Error Correction Processor)

The ECP completes the engine by providing high performance hardware viterbi, Reed Solomon and other coding technologies. By performing these functions in reconfigurable hardware, exceptionally low levels of power consumption can be achieved whilst utilising the highest levels of coding.