www.Agilent-Tech.comProductsServices & Supportwww.HP.com
Agilent-Technologies LogoSemiconductor Products
Search
Assistance
SPG home
 HPRFhelp home
 Markets
  Video

 Set-top
  description
  specifications

 What's New
 How to Buy
 
Market Description

Set-top

 
CATV set-top heterodyne converters accept signals from the cable, down-convert, and process the signals for viewing with a television receiver.

Silicon RFICs provide effective solutions for gain stages and broadband mixers. Schottky diodes can be used in balanced mixers requiring wide dynamic range. AGC is accomplished by using either PIN attenuator diodes or a silicon RFIC variable gain amplifier. Silicon bipolar transistors are used in the local oscillator. PIN switching diodes provide a reliable means of switching the television receiver input between a TV broadcast antenna and the cable system.

Links to more information:

Privacy Statement Terms of Use

this page last updated: 1 October 1999