Silicon labs Video Demodulators Superset code

This repository contains the SILABS_SUPERSET source code used to build DTV frontend applications using Silicon Labs DTV demodulators.

This code can be used to support any configuration using the API-controlled Silicon Labs DTV demodulators.

Refer to [https://github.com/SiliconLabs/video_si21xx_superset/blob/master/SILABS_SUPERSET/Si2183/Doc/USING_SILABS_SUPERSET.pdf for details related to this code.

Supported Silicon Labs DTV demodulators

All API-controlled single and dual DTV Demodulators are supported via the Si2183 driver

• Si2160B
• Si21602B
• Si2162B
• Si21622B
• Si2164B
• Si21642B
• Si2166D
• Si2167D
• Si21662C
• Si21672C
• Si2168C
• Si21682C
• Si2169C
• Si21692C
• Si2180
• Si21802
• Si2181
• Si21812
• Si2182
• Si21822
• Si2183
• Si21832

Currently available Silicon Labs Video Demodulators are listed in

• https://www.silabs.com/tv-and-video/digital-tv-and-satellite-demodulators

Supported Silicon Labs TER tuners

The following TER Tuners are supported

• Si2124
• Si2141
• Si2144
• Si2146
• Si2147
• Si2148
• Si2151
• Si2156
• Si2157
• Si2176
• Si2177
• Si2178B

Additional TER tuners can be supported via the CUSTOM_TER wrapper

Currently available Silicon Labs Video Tuners are listed in

• https://www.silabs.com/tv-and-video/tv-tuners

Supported SAT Tuners

This code supports several SAT tuners, such as

• AV2012
• AV2018
• MAX2112
• NXP20142 (refer to NXP to get the underlying driver)
• RDA5812
• RDA5815
• RDA5815S
• RDA16110
• RDA5815M
• RDA16112
• RDA5816
• RDA5816S
• RDA16110D
• RDA16110E
• RDA5816SD
• RDA16110SW

Additional SAT tuners can be supported via the CUSTOM_SAT wrapper

(SAT) Supported LNB controllers

This code supports several LNB controllers tuners, such as

• A8293
• A8297
• A8302
• A8304
• LNBH21
• LNBH25
• LNBH26
• LNBH29

Additional LNB controllers can be supported using one of the above examples

(SAT) Unicable support

This code supports Unicable I as well as Unicable II.

The automatic installation phase in Unicable II is something we can’t support, because it requires reading 5 DiSEqC bytes, and our HW only allows reading 3 DiSEqC bytes.

This seems like a big issue, but EN 50607 (i.e. Unicable II specification) specifies that ‘The satellite receiver shall always allow to manually enter the UB-ID and UB-frequency’ No SIFC (i.e. DiSEqC read) capability is required. The above means that HW compatible with Unicable I can also handle Unicable II with no HW change.