Summary of Contents for DekTec DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress
- Page 1 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Atsc3Xpress ATSC 3.0 Signal Generator © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 1/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals May 2025...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
8. Generating ATSC 3.0 MIMO RF Signals ..................21 8.1. Creating a MIMO configuration ....................21 8.2. Synchronizing to an External Clock Source ..................22 8.3. Generating the RF Signals ......................22 © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 2/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals... -
Page 3: Revision History
Added support for different types of ALP-packets v1.9.0.23 2018.01.16 Extended parameter error checking Added support for PCAP-files containing ALP v1.7.0.16 2017.09.01 Added MISO support © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 3/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals May 2025... - Page 4 Added IQ over ASI option Fixed generation of CTI with LDM V1.3.0.8 2016.10.06 Enabled changing parameters without restart Initial version V1.0.0.3 2016.08.22 © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 4/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals May 2025...
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Page 5: Introduction
DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress 1. Introduction The DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress software package is designed to create ATSC 3.0 test signals in the form of I/Q sample files or ATSC 3.0 RF output signals. Atsc3Xpress can be installed by the user on any qualifying PC, as specified in section 2. -
Page 6: Atsc3Xpress Application Layout
This group of controls allows you to set the ATSC 3.0 frame parameters. 8. Frame Information This area displays information about the ATSC 3.0 frame and subframes. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 6/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals... -
Page 7: Walkthrough: Generation Of An Atsc 3.0 Rf Signal
Optionally save the current Atsc3Xpress settings to file by pressing the save button in the toolbar or selecting Save File in the menu bar. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 7/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals... -
Page 8: Atsc3Xpress Application Gui
Cancel the generation of the ATSC 3.0 signal - Help Menu Submenu item Description About Provide information about the current Atsc3Xpress version © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 8/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals May 2025... -
Page 9: Tool Bar
- Additional information Toolbar info Description The name of the current Atsc3Xpress-settings file. During the generation of the output file(s) the progress is displayed. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 9/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals May 2025... -
Page 10: General Atsc 3.0 Parameters
Walsh-H (Walsh-Hadamard) or Null Pilots MIMO pilot encoding SISO Output SISO subframes output for mixed MIMO/SISO configurations: to both channels or to channel 1 only © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 10/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals... -
Page 11: Preamble Parameters
BSID Broadcast Stream ID: 0 .. 65535 7.6. Time Information Parameters This group of parameters allows you to specify the time information insertion parameters. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 11/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals... -
Page 12: Frame Parameters
5ms .. 5000ms in steps of 5ms 7.8. ATSC 3.0 Frame Information This group shows information on the ATSC 3.0 frame and subframe structure. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 12/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals... - Page 13 The index of the first PLP data cell #TI cells The number of Time Interleaver memory cells FEC-block size The number of cells in a FEC block © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 13/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals May 2025...
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Page 14: Output Settings
The Root Mean Square (RMS) of the complex samples. This value should be set as large as possible to have the largest SNR, but small enough to avoid saturation. When a DekTec card is used for play-out of the I/Q samples, the value 5000 is a good value. -
Page 15: Rf Output Settings
This area allows you to specify the LMT-table generation. If enabled, the LMT-table is included in the PLP(s) where the LLS checkbox is checked. LMT-table generation © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 15/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals... -
Page 16: Subframe And Plp Parameters
If checked, the first symbol of the subframe is a subframe boundary symbol SBS Last If checked, the last symbol of the subframe is a subframe boundary symbol © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 16/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals... -
Page 17: Plp Parameters
Value: 11 .. 30 => Value – 5.0 dB Disp PLP type: non-dispersed or dispered. If check, the PLP is dispersed. Note: only used for core PLPs. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 17/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals... - Page 18 HTI Num FEC-blocks The number of FEC blocks per subframe: 1 .. HTI Max FEC-blocks. Note: only used for core PLPs where the time interleaver mode is HTI. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 18/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals...
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Page 19: Channel Fading
The Channel-Simulator group contains the overall enable box. If checked, channel simulation is enabled, noise, MIMO cross-polarization interference, and fading- path parameters can be specified. If unchecked, no channel simulation is applied. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 19/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual... -
Page 20: Awgn
If the Multiple Transmission Paths Simulation is disabled, it acts as a single path without attenuation and without delay. If the Multiple Transmission Paths Simulation is enabled and no paths are defined, it acts as a pure noise generator. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 20/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual... -
Page 21: Status Bar
The adapters use the same output frequency but can have a different output level. Also, the General MIMO parameters can be set see section 7.4. And the fading parameters for each MIMO output channel can be set, see section 7.12. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 21/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual... -
Page 22: Synchronizing To An External Clock Source
Generate output in the menu bar. Both outputs start generating the MIMO signals at the same moment. An error message pops up if one of the boards is not properly synchronized to the external clock source. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 22/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual... - Page 23 The generation of the RF signal can be stopped by pressing the Cancel generation button in the toolbar or selecting Cancel generation in the menu bar. © 2016-2025 DekTec Digital Video BV Page 23/23 DTC-386 Atsc3Xpress Manual Essential Tools for Digital-TV Professionals...
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