SLM-3650 Satellite Modem
Revision 3
Options
MN/SLM3650.IOM
A–62
The Reed-Solomon Codec works in conjunction with the Viterbi decoder and includes
additional framing, interleaving, and Codec processing to provide concatenated FEC and
convolutional encoding and decoding.
Refer to Figure A-15 for a block diagram of the Reed-Solomon Codec.
CHASSIS
INTERFACE
CDRDATA
LOOPBACK
TX DATA
TX CLK
MUXDATA
MUX CLK
INTERFACE
PCB
MUX
CDR CLK
DECDATA
OVERHEAD
PROCESSOR
RX
DATA
LOOPBACK
MUX
DMXDATA
DMX CLK
RX CLK
DEC CLK
REED-SOLOMON
MAIN
MAIN
PCB
Figure A-15. Reed-Solomon Codec Block Diagram
A.2.1.1 Specifications
Refer to Table A-20 (below) for overhead types and data rates supported by the
Reed-Solomon Codec option. Refer to Chapter 1 for BER specifications.
Table A-20. Specifications
Overhead Type
Data Rate
IDR (T1)
1640 kbps
IDR (E1)
2144 kbps
D&I
64 to 1920 kbps
IBS
64 to 2048 kbps
ASYNC
2.4 to 2048 kbps
No Overhead
2.4 to 4.555 kbps
AUPC
2.4 to 2048 kbps
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