DAB-XPlorer / DABXP / DABRF
– Getting Started
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2 What is the DAB-XPlorer and DABXP-HWU?
For historical reasons the term
DAB-XPlorer
stands for two things:
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DAB-XPlorer software suite providing a collection of software tools to analyse DAB data
streams and
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DAB-XPlorer hardware providing an ETI/RDI-to-USB interface. The device will be called
also DABXP-HWU in this document.
Originally, both the software and the hardware have been one product, the DAB-XPlorer,
developed and manufactured by Ingenieurbüro Mulka. In the course of the evolution of this
product, the software was modified and extended to support additional hardware products
from other vendors. At this time the DAB-XPlorer software suite supports and can be
delivered with
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ETI/RDI-to-USB converter DABXP-HWU, and
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DAB test receiver and modulator DABRF-HWU or DABRF-RM,
all three from Ingenieurbüro Mulka.
In addition, the DAB-XPlorer software suite supports
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all Ethernet interfaces that can be used to receive EDI data streams,
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DAB test receiver UEB400DXP provided under the trademark VAD, and
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products of VDL’s DABSTOR family.
The DAB-XPlorer software application is modular. The following tools are available
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Ensemble Viewer
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ETI-XPlorer
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FIC-XPlorer
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FIC-XTractor
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PRBS-Analyzer
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Message Viewer
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Recorder / Player / Timeshift Buffer
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RDI-ETI-Converter
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GPS-Campaign-Converter
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Triggered Recorder
Figure 1 gives a summary about all components of the system.
Together with the various hardware options, the software modules can be combined to
support a great variety of use cases. Section 5.3 describes some examples.