Copyright © 2006 – STM Norway AS
Publication no. 101557, Rev. T, November 3
th
, 2006
Page 57
14.1 DVB-S2 Modulation
The STM DVB-S2 ASIC’s supports 2 different modulation rates:
•
QPSK
•
8-PSK
The figure below shows the modulation constellations for QPSK and 8-PSK modes supported by the
DVB-S2 standard. With QPSK we transfer 2 bits per modulation symbol, while with 8-PSK we are able
to transfer 3 bits per modulation symbol.
Hence the potential gain of going from QPSK to 8-PSK can be as high as 50 %.
Figure 1: QPSK and 8-PSK constellations
14.2 DVB-S2 Coding
DVB-S2 uses advanced LDPC code concatenated with BCH codes. Together this coding scheme results
in a performance that is only 0.7-1.0 dB away from the theoretical Shannon bound indicated by the dotted
red line in the figure below. This translates to an improvement in coding gain of close around 2 dB
compared to DVB-S systems using RS-Viterbi.
Figure 2: DVB-S2 Coding Performance
QPSK
8-PSK