Parallel port: Multiple modes, input or output, clock up to 108MHz

Serial port: ASI or SDI, input or output

  • Description
  • Specifications
  • Ordering Info

Description

DTA-2142 Features

  • Universal parallel port for Rx and Tx of 8-bit data with valid and sync signals at clock rates up to 108MHz
  • Serial port is software-selectable input or output, DVB-ASI or SDI
  • The parallel port supports several modes, including DVB-SPI with boosted clock range, transport stream with fixed clock and valid, serial with explicit clock and BT-656 for uncompressed SD video
  • External clock input that can be used as master clock for serial and/or parallel port
  • BNC connector on PCI bracket can be used as serial port (default) or as external clock input by reconnecting coax cable to the external clock input MCX connector
  • I/O standard is selectable M-LVDS or LVTTL
  • Short-circuit detection on parallel port
  • Each port has on-board 32-Mbytes buffer

DTA-2142 Applications

  • General purpose lab card for generating and capturing of (un)compressed digital video and other 8-bit or 10-bit signals
  • Universal stream station

Specifications

Serial port
Connector                                  75-Ω BNC
DVB-ASI                                      EN50083-9
SD-SDI                                       SMPTE 259M

Parallel port
Connector                                 SMPTE 259M
I/O standard                              M-LVDS@108MHz, LVTTL@27MHz
Clock rate                                  0 .. 108MHz
Modes                                        DVB-SPI, Serial, Fixed-clock TS, BT.656

External reference clock      >1V top-top

PCI Express                              PCIe1 x1

Ordering Info

All USA orders will be shipped from our USA warehouse.
All other orders will be shipped from Canada.

DTA-2142   –   Serial and parallel port adapter for PCI Express

DTA-2142-SLP   –   Serial and parallel port adapter for PCI Express with StreamXpress and StreamXpert Lite

DTA-2142-SXP   –   Serial and parallel port adapter for PCI Express with StreamXpress and StreamXpert

Software Description

1.     StreamXpress –  Playout  Software

  • High-performance playout software that supports all DekTec output adapters
  • Endless play with optional automatic correction of continuity-counter, PCR/PTS/DTS and TDT/TOT fields
  • SOAP-based remote control to automate StreamXpress operations (DTC-302-RC option)
  • Saving and restoring playout parameters using XML-based settings file
  • Reproducible injection of errors in the transport stream with adjustable error rate
  • Easy-to-use control of modulation and channel simulation parameters

2.    StreamXpert – Transport Stream Analyser Software

• Real-time analysis, monitoring and recording of MPEG-2 transport streams
• Recording based on duration, size or manual
• Provides detailed statistics on the PIDs, services and tables found in the transport stream
• Displays PIDs, services, tables, descriptors, stream information and PID-grid (compact overview of all PIDs)
• User definable TR 101 290 templates
• PCR analysis
• Measurement of bitrates, PCR-accuracy and interval
• Integrated SD/HD video and audio decoder with support for MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, AVS, 4:2:2 and 10 bit video streams and MP1 / MP2 / (HE-)AAC / Dolby AC3 / Dolby AC4 audio
• Deep decoding of PSI, DVB-SI, DVB-RCS and ATSC-PSIP tables and descriptors
• Closed captions decoding
• SI decoding with user templates, Dolby AC4 analysis, multi-monitor support
• Support for analysing TS-over-IP streams via a DTA-2160 / DTA-2162 or a local network port
• The world’s most cost-effective and user-friendly transport-stream analyser

3.  StreamXpert Lite – Light-weight version of StreamXpert for viewing and recording transport-stream contents, and for decoding audio and video.

                                                             StreamXpert           StreamXpert Lite

Ribbon based GUI                                        ✓                               ✓
Display
List with properties of all PIDs                      ✓                               –
List with properties of all services                 ✓                               partial
List with properties of all tables                    ✓                                –
Video Decoding
HEVC                                                            ✓                                ✓
AVC                                                               ✓                                ✓
AVS                                                               ✓                                ✓
MPEG-2                                                        ✓                                ✓
4:2:2                                                              ✓                                –
10-bit                                                             ✓                                –
Full screen mode                                          ✓                                ✓
Multi-monitor support                                    ✓                                ✓
Audio Decoding
HE-AAC                                                        ✓                                ✓
AAC                                                              ✓                                ✓
E-AC-3                                                          ✓                                ✓
AC-3                                                             ✓                                 ✓
MPEG-1 Layer II                                           ✓                                ✓
Supported Interfaces
DekTec input adapters                                   ✓                                 ✓
PC network ports                                           ✓                                 ✓
Advanced
Custom table and descriptor templates         ✓                                  –
PID Grid, graphical overview of all PIDs        ✓                                  –
Dolby AC-4 analysis                                       ✓                                  –
Recording
Manual mode                                                ✓                                  ✓
Size based                                                    ✓                                  ✓
Duration based                                              ✓                                  ✓
Measurement and Compliance
TR 101 290 priority 1, 2 and 3                      ✓                                  –
Bitrate                                                           ✓                                  partial
PCR graphs                                                  ✓                                  –
PCR accuracy                                               ✓                                  –
PCR interval                                                  ✓                                  –
PCR frequency offset                                    ✓                                  –