Panasonic MN88472

NM88472

The NM88472 is a DVB-T/DVB-T2/DVB-C demodulator chip manufactured by Panasonic.

I2C Adressing

The chips has 3 I2C addresses, one for each demodulator bank:

8 bit (7 bit)
0x38  (0x1c) - DVB-T2
0x30  (0x18) - DVB-T
0x34  (0x1a) - DVB-C

Demod Initialization

• Write init reg values for all 3 register banks (T2/T and last C)
• Prepare DVB-T bank for firmware upload
  • Write 0x20 to register 0xf0 in T bank
  • Write 0x03 to register 0xf5 in T bank (this most likely set the mcu to reset state)
• Load firmware for demod
  • Write all firmware bytes to register 0xf6 to fill the mcu memory
• Start demod firmware
  • Write 0x00 to register 0xf5 in T bank
• Check parity
  • Read register 0xf8, if byte 5 (0x10) is set the parity check failed.

Demod probe

• Read register 0xFF in T2 bank

The answer should be 0x02.

TS mode

How to set chip ts mode.

Parallel TS with fixed clock

• Write 0x00 to register 0x08 in T2 bank
• Write 0xE1 to register 0xD9 in T bank

Parallel TS with variable clock

• Write 0x00 to register 0x08 in T2 bank
• Write 0xE3 to register 0xD9 in T bank

Serial TS with variable clock

• Write 0x1D to register 0x08 in T2 bank
• Write 0xE3 to register 0xD9 in T bank