LOW PIN COUNT HIGH SPEED INTERFACE FOR VIDEO AND AUDIO CODEC APPLICATIONS

摘要

A receiver is provided that comprises at least one tuner. The tuner comprises a housing or packaging wall inclosing at least some elements of the tuner. The tuner further comprises at least one pin or lead leading outside or away from the housing, and a sigma-delta modulator receiving an analog input stream having at least one frequency from at least one tuner and output at least 1-bit data stream, with each 1-bit data stream associated with a physical communications line terminating on the lead or pin. The receiver has at least one digital filter digitally coupled to the sigma-delta modulator for filtering the at least 1-bit data stream.