Engineering:Xceive XC3028

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Xceive's XC3028 and XC3028L are single-chip TV tuners by Xceive Inc., capable of receiving analogue cable, analogue terrestrial, digital cable and digital terrestrial TV (PAL, NTSC, SECAM, DVB-t, ATSC, DVB-c). It is commonly used in USB digital TV receivers for Windows and Mac due to its small size and power consumption, but the manufacturer also markets it as suitable for portable TVs and notebook computers. Its main competitor is the Microtune MT2060.

Support for this tuner has been added in the 2.6.25 Linux kernel.

XC3018

It is a variant that only supports analog reception and DVB-T digital reception.

Technical specification

  • Outline Dimensions: 7 x 7 x 0.85 mm
  • Supply Voltage (DC): 1.8V, 3.3V
  • System setting time: 5ms
  • Input Impedance: 75 ohms
  • VSWR (typical): 2.5
  • Noise Figure (typical): 6dB
  • Phase noise @10kHz (typical): –85dBc/Hz
  • CTB: –63dBc
  • Image rejection: 60dB
  • AGC range: 80dB
  • Video S/N (unweighted): 48dB
  • Frequency range: 42-864MHz
  • XC3028 Power Dissipation: < 1.2W
  • XC3028L Power Dissipation: < 1.0W

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