The transmitter function has an option for a high stability oscillator with less than 2.8ppm drift, meeting ATSC specifications. This is useful for applications such as bridging between ATSC and DVB transmission standards. Integration of both Transmitter and Receiver on the same card gives a one-slot solution for DVB processing applications. Driver software is available for Windows 2000, Windows NT 4 and Linux. The source code is available for the Linux driver.
Drivers support multiple boards in a system.
The DVB Master FD receiver will check the incoming transport stream for packet sync, and syncronize on it. Once syncronized, the packets will be stored on byte boundaries in memory. This makes further processing of the transport steam much easier for the host processor. When the board is syncronized on a valid stream the green Rx Data and sync LEDs will be illuminated. The DVB Master FD will automatically detect packet size and will indicate the current size in a status register.