Business Weekly - Cambridge, UK

Commsonic provides technology, IP and specialist design services in the area of broadcast communications.

It has designed three bespoke modulator solutions for its Chinese customers, all built around the CMS0009 (COFDM) and CMS0024 (QAM) FPGA cores and integrate all of the synchronisation, error correction and signal processing functions necessary to perform bits-to-carrier modulation from a raw MPEG packet stream.

The designs, all targeted at the low-cost Altera and Xilinx FPGA device families, are configured for deployment as the main component of head-end systems for digital TV transmission over terrestrial and cable RF channels.