Design and development of a new POD module chip-set based on the OpenCable specification

Author

Won Hee Kim ; Won Jay Song ; Bo Gwan Kim ; Byung Ha Ahn

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chungnam Nat. Univ., South Korea

fYear

2002

fDate

18-20 June 2002

Firstpage

208

Lastpage

209

Abstract

In this paper, we have designed a hardware architecture of the OpenCable set-top and the point of deployment (POD) module. The designed POD module has an embedded 32-bit RISC microprocessor which manages applications such as MPEG-2 filter, descrambler, and DES. We have proposed the OpenCable reference model and implemented a conditional access system (CAS). We have tested this system using a prototype and have obtained satisfactory simulation results.

Keywords

authorisation; cable television; embedded systems; filters; microprocessor chips; reduced instruction set computing; security of data; telecommunication security; 32-bit RISC microprocessor; CAS; DES; MPEG-2 filter; OpenCable set-top; POD module; conditional access system; descrambler; embedded microprocessor; hardware architecture; point of deployment module; reference model; Content addressable storage; Cryptography; Design engineering; Engines; Hardware; Microprocessors; Payloads; Protection; Reduced instruction set computing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2002. ICCE. 2002 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7300-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2002.1013995

Filename

1013995