Monthly Archives: October 2013

DVB-T2 FECFRAME – What is it?

FECFRAME is a fundamental DVB-T2 system parameter. There are two FECFRAME values: long (64 800 bits) and short (16 200 bits). FEC (Forward Error Correction) is a technique that is used for correcting errors in data transmission over noisy communication channels. The transmitter accomplishes FEC by adding redundant check bits to the input data stream […]

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An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of DVB-T2 Scattered Pilot Patterns

Today’s most popular digital wireless systems – for example WLAN, digital terrestrial broadcast systems, 4G cellular networks, etc. – are all based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). In OFDM a large number of closely spaced orthogonal carriers are used to carry data on several parallel channels. A smaller number of the carriers are allocated […]

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