LONDON — NXP Semiconductors and Entropic Communications, Inc. will demonstrate at this week's IBC in Amsterdam a jointly developed MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) enabled set-top box (STB) reference design.
The companies have been working on several projects to enable STB OEMs and service providers to bring complete home networked STB solutions to market faster, with lower development costs and power consumption.
The reference design integrates NXP's recently unveiled integrated 45-nm STB system-on-chip platform incorporating multi-channel broadcast receivers, and Entropic's third-generation MoCA 1.1-compliant EN251x single-chip network controller.
The demonstration will focus on enabling multi-room DVR functionality, allowing consumers to watch content stored on a single digital video recorder from any room in the house using the MoCA standard for home entertainment networking using existing coaxial cable.
This allows streaming of high-definition programming from a DVR STB to multiple client STBs in other rooms.
By taking advantage of up to 175 Mbit/s of application layer throughout, 16 node support, parameterized quality of service (PQoS) and remote network diagnostic capability of the MoCA 1.1 standard, the reference design will provide for the bandwidth and processing speeds required to handle multiple streams of high-definition video in addition to other network traffic and personal content sharing, such as gaming, music streaming, photographs and other digital content.
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