TDA18260HN
Dual cable silicon tuner
Rev. 5 — 4 July 2012
Product short data sheet
1. General description
The TDA18260HN is a dual silicon tuner IC designed specifically for high definition
multi-tuner cable Set-Top Boxes (STBs) supporting single streaming and multi-streaming
PVR STBs with watch, record, video-on-demand and in-home video distribution capability.
Used in conjunction with the TDA10025HN (dual digital channel demodulator), the
TDA18260HN covers all worldwide digital cable standards.
• The TDA18260HN ensures a low system cost as:
– Costly components such as low noise amplifiers, Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW)
filters and incremental crystal oscillators have been eliminated from the system Bill
Of Materials (BOM)
• The TDA18260HN high performance silicon tuner meets today’s digital cable TV
reception needs with:
– Matched performance levels for master and slave tuners
– Low power consumption
– High linearity
– Low noise figure
• The TDA18260HN ensures ease of use with:
– Easy on-board integration
– Efficient and effective PCB design
– Reduced external components
2. Features and benefits
Dual tuner inside one single, small sized package
One single RF input with direct cable connection
Internal splitter to drive the two integrated tuners
Two low IF outputs, connecting directly to demodulators
RF loop-through
Easy application for up to 6-tuner using 3 TDA18260HN
Dedicated multiple tuner outputs to drive additional tuners
No need for external active splitter
Same performance on all streams
Extended frequency coverage from 42 MHz up to 1002 MHz
Multistandard cable receptions