The Brief
The client had a consumer video redistribution system that needed upgrading to include support for HD TV over a 300MHz coax frequency band. The challenge was to architect and demonstrate a system which could meet the requirement at a very aggressive BOM cost.
The Solution
Fundamentally Fen had to encrypt, encode, modulate, demodulate, decode and decrypt an HD TV stream and present it to the HDMI port of a TV, without breaching HDCP protocol requirements, all for a low-cost consumer electronics price point.
The narrow transmission bandwidth was only possible using a high-order QAM scheme not available in low-cost off-the-shelf components.
Fen met all of the requirements by architecting a custom design that combined high-specification third-party IP elements and low-cost standard TV components.
The challenge was bringing all of the elements together in a way that met the cost target whilst providing a high quality user experience in a consumer product.
