STA002

Designed for World Space satellites digital audio receivers, the STA002 Digital Receiver Front-end integrates all the blocks needed to demodulate incoming digital satellite audio signals from the tuner: analog to digital converter, QPSK demodulator, signal power estimator, automatic gain control, Viterbi decoder, deinterleaver, Reed-Solomon decoder and energy dispersal descrabler. Its advanced error correction functions guarantees a low error rate even with small low gain receiver antennas.

Additional functions include the selection of  broadcast channel, service components and audio components for source decoding:

- The MPEG Audio bitstream of the STA002 is provided at the serial audio output port.

- The Broadcast Channel is provided to the serial data output port.

- The Service Component of the STA002 is provided at the SC output interface.

World Space encryption scheme is supported for pay programs and paging.