Dmd20 Baseband Processing Printed Circuit Card - Radyne DMD20 Installation And Operation Manual

Theory of Operation DMD20 Universal Satellite Modem
Figure 3-2. IF Card Block Diagram

3.0.2 DMD20 Baseband Processing Printed Circuit Card

The advent of million-plus gate count FPGAs, advanced logic synthesis tools, and DSPs
providing hundreds of MIPs enabled the design of a software configurable modem. Large, fast
FPGAs now provide designers with what is essentially an on the fly programmable ASIC. High
speed, complex digital logic functions that previously could only be implemented in dedicated
integrated circuits are now downloaded from a micro-controller through a serial or peripheral
interface. When a new digital logic function is needed, a new configuration file is loaded into the
FPGA. There is no limit to the number of digital logic configurations available to the FPGA, aside
from the amount of Flash memory available to the system microprocessor for storage of
configuration files.
The DMD20 Baseband Processing Printed Circuit Card provides a flexible architecture that allows
many different modes of terrestrial and satellite framing, various FEC options, digital voice
processing, and several different modulation/demodulation formats. Also included on the
Baseband Printed Circuit Card are three synchronous interfaces, an EIA-530 Interface supporting
RS-422, V.35, and RS-232. All three interfaces are provided on the same DB25 Connector, and
are selectable from the front panel.
A block diagram of the Baseband Processing Card is shown in Figure 3-3.
3-2 TM103 - Rev. 1.1