GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The TDA8961 is an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC)-compliant demodulator and FEC decoder for reception of 8-VSB modulated signals for terrestrial and cable applications:

• Terrestrial: reception of 8-VSB modulated signals via standard 6 MHz VHF/UHF terrestrial TV channels (TV channels 2 to 69 in the United States).
• Cable: reception of 8-VSB modulated signals via standard 6 MHz VHF/UHF cable TV channels.

FEATURES
General features
• One-chip ATSC-compliant demodulator and concatenated trellis (Viterbi)/Reed Solomon decoder with de-interleaver and de-randomizer
• 0.35 µm process
• 3.3 V device
• QFP80 package
• Boundary Scan Test (BST)
• 12 MHz external clock
• 36 MHz output for external D/A converter
• Parallel or serial MPEG-2 transport stream output.