2-1 Hardware Development of a Prototype Mobile Phone for Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting

Abstract

We have developed the mobile phone which can receive terrestrial digital broadcasting. The mobile phone uses the reception adapter for digital broadcasting and a remodeled mobile phone which is commercially available for cdma2000 1x EV-DO (W11H) is used for the body. The reception adapter consists of the reception anntena, RF-module and the FPGA to control them. The mini-SD interfaces are used to transfer received digital datas into the mobile phone and the application processor in the mobile phone handles them. Terrestrial digital broadcasting for mobile terminals is expected to start by late 2005 and we confirmed the mobile phone we developed would work for it