ViXS PureTV-U 48A3

ViXS PureTV-U 48A3 Front

ViXS PureTV-U 48A3 Back

An ATSC PCI card from ViXS.

It is not currently supported under Linux.

Overview/Features

This card is an OEM model, produced by ASUS, of the ViXS reference design, and is made available in Media Center PCs, such as a HP Pavilion Slimline s3320f. The device has both an analog NTSC tuner and a ATSC tuner.

• Includes two coax inputs. One for NTSC and one for ATSC.
• Has SVideo and audio input

Components Used

Manufacturer	IC Part #	Function	I²C address	GPIO(s)
NXP	FQ1236/F	can tuner module
LG	LGDT3303	Digital Demodulator
NXP	SAA7136E	A/V Decoder
ViXS	XCode 2105	MPEG2 Encoder & PCI bridge
Hynix	HY5DU281622FTP-5	RAM Chip used in conjunction with MPEG2 Encoding

Identification

The output from lspci -vnn reveals:

01:0a.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: ViXS Systems, Inc. Unknown device [1745:2100]
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:48a3]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 32 (30000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at fdb00000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Region 1: Memory at fdee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

External Links

• HP Pavilion Slimline s3320f PC ... see the card's Windows driver for identification of the actual model number
• ViXS is looking for Linux developers ... might bode well for this card in the future.