Set-Top Box Design and Manufacturing

Professional video equipment and consumer electronics companies are working to integrate digital technologies at an unprecedented rate. Whether they are involved in the development of those technologies, the creation of the newest electronic gadget, or delivery of the next breakthrough application in delivery services; all face similar challenges – standards compliance, design verification and interoperability testing.

Designers and manufacturers alike also demand tools that help isolate, analyze and identify the root cause of complex problems. Tektronix analyzers and measurement sets are critical to getting new high quality products to market quickly and at lower cost.

Today’s Set Top Boxes (STBs) can incorporate a wide variety of technologies in addition to SDI video and multichannel surround sound audio. Expertise in the RF domain and the IP domain might be required to optimize a design. A designers ability to quickly determine if a video error has occurred due to an IP anomaly or a decode error will be critical to efficient analysis and debug of problems that can be difficult to pinpoint.

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Error logs across multiple domains with a common time stamp and user centric interfaces that show cross domain activities referenced to a common timeline will provide critical assistance in cross layer correlation of events and errors.

CaptureVu™ is a feature of both our baseband monitors and our MPEG analyzers that can be set to trigger on user defined parameters and initiate recording of related data in a full video frame or part of a transport stream respectively. This unique capability provides the data necessary to perform an in depth, off line analysis of the circumstances leading to an error condition.

Automated measurement sets provide repeatable objective measurements to assist in load testing or manufacturing qualification. Tests can be configured to make dozens of standards based tests in seconds.

Cross layer correlation, CaptureVu™ and automated measurement sets are all powerful tools. Together they reflect Tektronix dedication to providing the broadest portfolio of solutions and a deep understanding of the diverse technologies which challenge equipment designers and manufacturers everywhere.