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Uline doubling Pleasant Prairie complex, adding 500 jobs
Packaging materials distributor Uline Inc. will double its Pleasant Prairie corporate campus, adding 500 jobs, Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday.
The expansion will add a second 1,000,000-square-foot warehouse and a second corporate office building, with 200,000 square feet.
Uline is spending around $100 million on the expansion, which will not receive public funding, the announcement said. However, the company is receiving up to $18.6 million in state aid for the earlier move of its headquarters to Wisconsin from Illinois. »Read Full Blog Post
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You gotta love the way the Walker toadies wet their pants every time some company says they will be adding jobs but then they hide under their rock every time some company says it is laying off workers or moving out of state.Hide replies
let's start a list of companies that have left the state and those that have moved to the State. I'll list the ones that moved here or want to open/expand a business in Wisconsin. You list those that left.
I'll go first...Uline
jimbo we'll start with the jobs lost CAT 1300 JOY GLOBAL 850 OSHKOSH TRUCK 950 AND THATS JUST THIS YEAR to name a few companies laying off 50 to 500 seems to be happening daily in Wisconsin .adding 50 to 500 happens what once every six months.
Ironic, as the Cat and Joy Global (war on coal) and Oshkosh Truck (war on our military) losses are directly related to the idiot you elected POTUS, and yet Walker IS STILL CREATING JOBS!!
Uline was already here thanks to Doyle. 150000 jobs to go
Yeah, and Mary Burke right 40? Oh yeah, thats right. Uline has no idea who she is.
The Wisconsin benefit from a full recovery from the recession would be 215,000 jobs...no brainer. Those 215K jobs (and the rest of the 15 million jobs still missing from our national recovery) are on Obama's head.
Just think - if we had those, that campaign promise would have been fulfilled a year and a half ago. Way ahead of schedule.
babycakes - If the nation adds 100,000 jobs in Friday's jobs report, which we easily will, we will have recovered all the jobs Bush/Cheney lost - yet walker is still way, way short. Sorry to hit you with that fact.
Opsie, Plaid - great so we'll have the same number as in 2008. Good thing that NO ONE has turned 18 or immigrated since then.
Point is - we'll be back to where we were before Obama took office, numbers wise - but we will not have the same percentage of people working - we're still a few million jobs short. Unemployment is still 50% higher what it was at the height of Bush's term, double if you look at labor force participation.
The 'worst" recovery, other than this one, had recovered all the jobs plus 1%, 60 months out.
We're 60 months out we're still almost 3% below breaking even.
BOTTOM LINE: This is very good news for Kenosha seeing as Gov."INTIMIDATED" is too stupid to approve their casino that would add thousands of jobs. But Wisconsin is still only adding jobs at 1/2 the National rate.Hide replies
Oh Dumpy, come into 2014. Your talking points are old.
Wisconsin is ranked #17 in job growth from April '13 - April '14.
We're just slightly below national avg of 1.75, at 1.73. Of course, ND with its job growth of 5.09 really pulls the national average up.
Facts are stubborn things.
Walker needs to add 600 jobs per day to meet his promise. He's still short 100 for today.and 1300 for the week so far.Hide replies
How do you know?
It is pretty obvious Ryan
The number of people who landed a job today in the state of Wisconsin is "pretty obvious." Holy Schniekies, we can replace entire departments of bureaucrats at the state and federal level with "WereNumber40."
Yes, we WERE #40, years ago. Now we're #17. Time to change your moniker, WERE.
Thanks to gov Doyle and Mary for making this possible by the hard word back in 2008Hide replies
"When I saw it, I said, 'Holy moly, what the heck is this?'" said Richard Uihlein, who with his wife, Elizabeth, owns Uline, a packaging supply company. "I don't even know her. That's the strange part of it."
""We've reopened the mill in Park Falls..."
More nonsense. That mill was reopened by Marc Marotta and a PE firm out of Chicago. Burke has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Wow - it took them 6 years? I guess Walker has until 2020 to count all the jobs created as his.
Great news for the State and Kenosha County. Nice to see expansion without direct public subsidy. Let's make sure that those freeway ramps stay well maintained.
Take this announcement with a grain of salt. Uline is overtly political and loves Walker - and, of course, knows Walker is in trouble in his re-election bid. I'll wait until I actually see these jobs before I applaud. The fact this is not receiving any public funding really makes me suspicious - whoever heard of a company not shaking down the government for some good ol' corporate welfare? Especially when you have a friendly gov just waiting to hand it out to his friends?Hide replies
You have no proof. You continue the hate and lies the left has infested this state with.
Uline accepted $6million in Wisconsin incentives to move to the State. Gov Jim Dolye was instrumental in the decision.
Sounds like the only 'good', 'real' jobs are created under dem majority years. This story must be make believe.
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Recourse for Draconian Encryption Requirements?
Why are so many people at your hospital using their personal computers at work?
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Also, your choice of words is wrong. There's nothing "draconian" about this whole issue.
Why are so many people at your hospital using their personal computers at work?
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One of the biggest fears over the proposed siting of an underground nuclear waste storage facility in west Cumbria is the potential impact on tourism leading to the Lake District being branded toxic.
Tomorrow senior councillors from three local authorities – Cumbria county, Allerdale and Copeland councils – are due to decide whether or not they stay in the running to have the repository in their areas.
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Mr Greenwood said that the organisation had previous experience in mitigating serious issues, including the foot and mouth outbreak and several incidents of flooding, which had the potential to considerably harm the tourism industry.
He added: "These challenges, through careful communication and partnership working, have been largely remedied.
"A similar measured approach is also applicable to the current situation. Whatever the outcome one thing is certain: Cumbria Tourism will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Lake District, Cumbria, maintains its position as the number one rural destination of choice in the UK."
Rob Johnston, the chief executive of Cumbria Chamber of Commerce, said that this organisation had raised concerns that it could have an impact on both tourism and business. But he added that it was important to be involved in any discussions or debate. "There's a long way to go on this," he said.
He said that the nuclear industry, tourism and the food and drink sector had existed together for the past 50 years. "They've sat beside each other reasonably comfortably and successfully," he said.
John Clarke, chief executive of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), agreed that tourism had co-existed with nuclear waste storage in Cumbria with no known adverse effect.
He added: "In fact, while it was open, the Sellafield Visitors Centre was one of the most popular tourist attractions in Cumbria.
"The nuclear industry is a good neighbour to the tourism industry; conferences and overnight stays by nuclear industry professionals bring in substantial amount of revenue for Cumbrian businesses.
"Indeed, the development of tourism is a key theme in the Britain's Energy Coast economic blueprint, which sets out how the county will benefit from the planned £2bn transformation of west Cumbria into a world leader in energy production.
"It is too early yet to assess any potential negative impacts associated with hosting a geological disposal facility because no sites have been identified at this stage.
"If the local authorities vote to proceed to stage four of the MRWS process, the Government has agreed to support a brand protection programme to help mitigate any perceived negative impacts on the Cumbria and Lake District brands."
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MORE than 120 Grade II listed buildings in Flintshire are at risk.
Nine of the historically significant structures are so badly run down they are now officially classed as derelict.
Among the buildings at grave risk are part of a house where renowned composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote music and a hostel which housed women during the Second World War.
The situation across Flintshire has been described as "diabolical" by a conservation campaigner.
Of the county's 1,030 listed buildings, 129 are in danger - more than one in 10 - and as many as 26 are in the highest risk categories - 'grave' or 'extreme'.
But just three of Flintshire's at risk buildings, most of which are privately owned, are currently undergoing repair or restoration, figures from Flintshire Council and Welsh heritage body Cadw showed.
Councils in some parts of Wales have given listed building owners ultimatums to repair them within months or face them being sold compulsorily, like Swansea Council, which issued an ultimatum to the owners of the iconic Victorian Danbert House.
In May Flintshire Council said it planned to write to all listed building owners to remind them of their responsibilities as owners of important heritage assets.
Now more than three months later, the council declined to say what action had been taken since, but did say that "no money has been spent on them recently".
Flintshire's planning strategy manager Andy Roberts said the council would contact owners of buildings at most risk to try to work out a means to address the issues and use enforcement powers "when and where appropriate".
But he said that with no funding at present from Welsh heritage body Cadw to address problem buildings and with the authority facing unprecedented budget cuts, the council was limited as to what direct action it could take.
Local historian David Rowe said it was important to save the buildings for future generations.
"The wealth of Flintshire was built on mining and quarrying and a lot of these properties are part of our industrial heritage that certainly you should be looking at preserving.
"It's what made Flintshire in the 19th century.
"With private houses, you've got Coed Du, where there's the link with Mendelssohn who actually wrote music there and Charles Kingsley [author of the Water Babies] who also visited.
"Many of the buildings were working domestic structures.
"Ice houses were such an important part of an estate's life, as were the dovecotes, because they provided food during the winter.
"These are the sorts of things we really should be looking to preserve for future generations - so we can understand how people then lived."
Former county councillor Klaus Armstrong-Braun said Flintshire Council should be doing more and that if the buildings were not saved Flintshire will lose a big slice of its cultural heritage.
"It's the county's duty to take action and to protect our heritage," he said.
"People in the future won't see or know how we lived in the past. It's loss of landscape which is very important. People in the future need to know how we lived in the past - what was good, what was bad, what we did wrong - so they can learn how to live in the future.
"It's the children who will lose out."
According to the Welsh Government's Cadw, which looks after the built heritage of Wales, there are approximately 2,700 listed buildings at risk across Wales.
A Cadw spokesman said: "There are a number of buildings at risk in Flintshire and across Wales. We monitor buildings at risk through an all-Wales condition survey, which informs our strategies to tackle the issues of conservation and maintenance of historic buildings across Wales."
Properties at grave risk include the Ice House at the registry office in Hawarden, the bath house at Coed Du in Cilcain, Bryn Awel in Pentre Halkyn, the piggeries at Nercwys Hall and the former women's land army hostel in Sealand.
Other properties at risk include Bettisfield Colliery's winding engine house, heapstead and lamp room, the Alleluia monument in Gwernaffield, a row of kilns at the former Afon Wen Portland Cement works, Caerwys, the telephone box outside the post office in Holywell and at Talacre Abbey in Llanasa, the banqueting house in the walled garden, the grotto adjoining the folly tower and Home Farm.
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A multiple tuner arrangement is formed on a single integrated circuit having a common radio frequency input terminal. The terminal supplies a broadband input signal to a plurality of individual tuners, which may be identical to each other in construction. The tuners operate simultaneously and independently of each other to convert a channel in the radio frequency input to the appropriate output intermediate frequency and supply this to the channel output terminal. Features such as a databus interface and a common reference oscillator for channel frequency synthesisers need not therefore be duplicated.
1. A tuner arrangement formed as a single integrated circuit and comprising a plurality of tuners, each of which has at least one output, and a common radio frequency input terminal for supplying an input radio frequency signal to at least some of said tuners, said at least some tuners being arranged to operate simultaneously: to select independently of each other respective desired channels for reception; to convert said desired channels to respective intermediate frequency signals; and to supply said respective intermediate frequency signals to said at least one output of said tuners.
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24. A set top box comprising a tuner arrangement formed as a single integrated circuit and comprising a plurality of tuners, each of which has at least one output, and a common radio frequency input terminal for supplying an input radio frequency signal to at least some of said tuners, said at least some tuners being arranged to operate simultaneously: to select independently of each other respective desired channels for reception; to convert said desired channels to respective intermediate frequency signals; and to supply said respective intermediate frequency signals to at least one output of said tuners.
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[0001] This application claims priority to GB 0128553.5, filed Nov. 29, 2001.
[0002] The present invention relates to a tuner arrangement and to a set top box including such an arrangement. Such arrangements may, for example, be connected to digital cable networks or to aerials for receiving digital terrestrial broadcast signals.
[0003] With the increasing number of services being offered through set top box terminals, such as �watch and record� and �parallel digital/analog reception�, there is an increasing requirement for multiple radio frequency (RF) interfaces, for example to cable distribution networks. FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawings illustrates a known approach to this problem in which a cable feed 1 from a cable distribution network is connected to a diplexer 2. The diplexer 2 isolates upstream and downstream bandwidths and performs a power splitting function so as to supply the broadband signals from the cable feed 1 to several tuners, such as the three tuners 3, 4 and 5 shown in this example.
[0004] Each of the modules 2 to 5 shown in FIG. 1 is an independent module and is provided in a �tin can� or Faraday cage for screening purposes. The tuners shown in FIG. 1 comprise, by way of example, an OOB channel tuner 3, a data channel tuner 4 and a main channel tuner 5. Each of the tuners 3 to 5 converts a selected channel to a predetermined intermediate frequency (IF) output, which may be further amplified and filtered either internally of the tuner or externally. The IF outputs are supplied to the appropriate demodulators (not shown).
[0005] This known type of arrangement requires that a power splitting function be performed within the diplexer 2. Also, because the tuners 3 to 5 are independent of each other, functions common to the tuners are multiplicated. Further, there are penalties in the space requirement, cost and power dissipation.
[0006] GB 2 216 354 discloses a tuner for selecting a single channel at a time. Several mixers are connected with their inputs and outputs in parallel and are enabled one at a time. The mixers receive local oscillator signals from a common local oscillator via respective taps in a divider chain. The arrangement is formed in a single integrated circuit.
[0007] EP 1 113 573 discloses a single tuner which is capable of receiving two different bands. There are two radio frequency �front ends� for the respective bands and either of these can be switched to a single image reject mixer. Similarly, the local oscillator has a small divider chain and band-switching is performed synchronously with selecting the front ends so as to achieve the correct tuning range. This arrangement is formed on a single integrated circuit.
[0008] EP 1 041 724 discloses a modular arrangement formed in a single integrated circuit (IC) to allow different configurations to be provided by a common IC in a mobile phone base station receiver. The IC is configured to act as a receiver channel and a diversity channel. A single radio frequency input is divided to separate mixers in the two channels. However, the mixers are supplied by a single common local oscillator arrangement.
[0009] WO 00/62532 discloses a dual conversion tuner for converting a selected input channel to quadrature baseband signals. Up conversion is followed by baseband down conversion and low pass filtering in the I and Q channels. The arrangement is formed as a single integrated circuit. FIG. 6 of this document discloses a band-splitting arrangement in which the input spectrum is divided into different sub-bands which are fed to respective mixers. The outputs of the mixers are connected in parallel to a single IF filter. FIG. 7 of this document extends this arrangement to having individual IF filters in the mixer outputs and these IF filters have different passbands. However, the individual channels are connected together into a single IF channel at or before the single common downconverter. Thus, this arrangement can only select a single channel at a time for reception.
[0010] U.S. Pat. No. 6,052,569 discloses a car radio for receiving information, such as traffic or weather information, without interrupting normal reception, for example of an entertainment channel. The arrangement makes use of two completely independent tuners. A first tuner receives either an FM channel or AM channel whereas the second tuner receives an FM channel or a US weather signal frequency modulated in the band 162.4-162.55 Mhz. The whole arrangement and each individual tuner are formed as a plurality of integrated circuits and �discrete� modules. FIG. 1a of this document discloses two tuner paths which share a common local oscillator and are not both capable of simultaneously receiving independent selectable channels.
[0011] U.S. Pat. No. 5,323,064 discloses a DBS (direct broadcast by satellite) downconverter in the form of a single microwave integrated circuit. The arrangement has two channels with respective mixers supplied by a common local oscillator arrangement such that the channels are tuned to select the same frequency channel. However, the channels are connected to a satellite aerial such that one down-converts the vertically polarised signal whereas the other down-converts the horizontally polarised signal in a system where horizontal and vertical polarization is used to double the number of channels which can be handled in a given band width.
[0012] According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a tuner arrangement formed as a single integrated circuit and comprising a plurality of tuners and a common radio frequency input terminal for supplying an input radio frequency signal to at least some of the tuners, characterised in that the at least some tuners are arranged to operate simultaneously: to select independently of each other respective desired channels for reception; to convert the desired channels to respective intermediate frequency signals; and to supply the respective intermediate frequency signals to outputs of the at least some tuners.
[0013] The at least some tuners may be substantially identical to each other.
[0014] The arrangement may comprise input data bus terminals connected to a data bus interface which is common to the at least some tuners.
[0015] The arrangement may comprise a buffer between the common input terminal and the at least some tuners. The buffer may comprise a low noise amplifier. The arrangement may comprise a filtering arrangement for dividing the output signal of the buffer into a plurality of frequency bands and a switching arrangement for connecting each of the at least some tuners to receive the frequency band containing the selected channel thereof.
[0016] Each of the at least some tuners may comprise an input variable gain circuit. The variable gain circuits may have gain control inputs connected to respective automatic gain control terminals. Each variable gain circuit may comprise a variable attenuator. Each variable gain circuit may comprise a low noise amplifier.
[0017] Each of the at least some tuners may comprise an input filter. Each input filter may have a fixed frequency response. As an alternative, each input filter may have a switched frequency response. As a further alternative, each input filter may be a tracking filter.
[0018] Each of the at least some tuners may comprise an upconverter and a downconverter. The upconverter may be tunable. The upconverters may be arranged to convert the selected channels to different intermediate frequencies. The downconverters may have local oscillators arranged to be tuned to different frequencies. As an alternative, the downconverters may comprise a single local oscillator common to the at least some tuners. Each of the downconverters may comprise an image reject mixer. The arrangement may comprise first and second terminals for an external intermediate frequency filter connected to the output of the upconverter and the input of the downconverter, respectively.
[0019] The at least some tuners may comprise a plurality of frequency synthesisers and a common reference oscillator.
[0020] According to a second aspect of the invention, there is provided a set top box comprising an arrangement according to the first aspect of the invention.
[0021] At least one of the at least some tuners may comprise a plurality of intermediate frequency output terminals connected to an output selecting switching arrangement.
[0022] The set top box may be provided for connection to a cable distribution network.
[0023] It is thus possible to provide a tuner arrangement which is capable of independently receiving several channels simultaneously from a single RF input so that, for example, external power splitting is not needed. Such an arrangement can be formed on a single integrated circuit so that space and power requirements can be reduced. For example, it is not necessary to duplicate common functionality. Separate housing for individual tuners can be avoided and substantial savings in cost and power dissipation are possible.
[0024]FIG. 1 is a block schematic diagram of a known type of multiple tuner arrangement;
[0025]FIG. 2 is a block circuit diagram of a tuner arrangement constituting a first embodiment of the invention; and
[0026]FIG. 3 is a block circuit diagram of a tuner arrangement constituting a second embodiment of the invention.
[0027] Like reference numerals refer to like parts throughout the drawings.
[0028] The tuner arrangement shown in FIG. 2 comprises an RF input 10 connected to an input buffer 11 in the form of a low noise amplifier (LNA) which presents a controlled input impedance at the input 10. The input 10 receives broadband RF signals, for example from a cable distribution network via a diplexer of the type shown in FIG. 1 so that the buffer 11 may have a dynamic range which is compatible with signal-to-noise and signal-to-intermodulation requirements.
[0029] The output of the buffer 11 is connected to a plurality of channels. In the example shown in FIG. 2, two channels (�channel 1� and �channel 2�) are provided and are indicated at 12 and 13. The channels 12 and 13 are, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, identical to each other so that only channel 1 (13) will be described in detail.
[0030] The output of the buffer 11 is connected to the input of an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit 14. The circuit 14 has a gain control input connected to a terminal 15 of a monolithic integrated circuit in which the tuner arrangement is formed. The circuit 14 may comprise a variable attenuator, a variable gain low noise amplifier or a combination of a variable attenuator and a low noise amplifier. The gain of the circuit 14 is controlled externally by means of a gain control signal RF AGC 1, for example based on signal level measurement downstream of the circuit 14 or on the performance of a demodulator to which the channel is connected. The AGC circuit 14 is generally controlled so as to maintain the signal level supplied to the following stages at an optimum level for a desired signal-to-(noise+intermodulation) performance.
[0031] The output of the circuit 14 is supplied to a first frequency changer 16 in the form of an upconverter for converting a desired channel to a high first intermediate frequency (IF), such as 1.22 GHz. The converter comprises a mixer 17 and a local oscillator 18 controlled by a phase locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesiser 19. The output of the mixer 17 at the high first intermediate frequency is connected to an IF filter 20 of bandpass characteristic having a passband generally centred on the first intermediate frequency and having a bandwidth for passing the desired or selected channel and several adjacent channels while substantially rejecting all other channels converted by the upconverter 16. Although the filter 20 is shown on the integrated circuit containing the tuner arrangement of FIG. 2, it may be provided externally of the integrated circuit, in which case the appropriate integrated circuit terminals are provided for connection to the filter.
[0032] The output of the filter 20 is supplied to a second frequency changer 21 comprising a downconverter which converts the selected channel to a desired output intermediate frequency, such as 44 MHz. The downconverter 21 also comprises a mixer 22 and a local oscillator (LO) 23 controlled by a further PLL frequency synthesiser 24. The mixer 22 is preferably of the image reject type and its output is supplied to an IF amplifier 25 which amplifies the downconverted signal and supplies this as the channel 1 IF output at an output terminal 26.
[0033] The integrated circuit comprises a data bus input terminal arrangement 27 for receiving control data for controlling operation of the frequency synthesisers 19 and 24 of all of the channels. The input arrangement 27, for example comprising one serial input terminal or a plurality of parallel input terminals, is connected to a data bus interface 28 which is common to all of the channels 12, 13 and which supplies the appropriate control signals to the frequency synthesisers 19, 24 of all of the channels.
[0034] The tuner arrangement comprises a reference oscillator 29 which is also common to all of the channels and which supplies a stable frequency reference signal to all of the synthesisers 19, 24 of all of the channels.
[0035] In use, each of the tuner channels operates substantially independently of each of the other channels. In particular, each tuner channel is arranged to convert any selected channel within the broadband signal at the input 10 to the desired output intermediate frequency at its output, such as 26. When a user selects a channel for reception, the appropriate tuning data are supplied via the input terminal arrangement 27 and the data bus interface 28 to the frequency synthesisers 19 and 24 of the appropriate channel. The local oscillators 18 and 23 are controlled to produce the local oscillator signal frequencies such that the selected channel is converted in frequency by the upconverter 16 to the first high intermediate frequency and is then converted by the downconverter 21 to the output intermediate frequency.
[0036] Although all of the tuner channels may have filters 20 of the same characteristic and, in particular, with the same centre frequency, different channels may have filters of different centre frequencies so that the different channels have different first intermediate frequencies. Alternatively, if the passband characteristics of the filters 20 are appropriate, for example sufficiently wide, the same types of filters may be used in all of the channels but the selected reception channels may be converted to different first intermediate frequencies within the filter passbands. Such a technique reduces the crosstalk between selected channels in different tuner channels. Also, the local oscillator frequencies of the downconverters in the different channels may be different from each other. For example, where different first intermediate frequencies are used in the different channels but the same output intermediate frequency is used for all channels, the local oscillator frequencies of the downconverters in the different channels will be required to be different so as to produce the correct output intermediate frequencies. Where the same first intermediate frequencies are used, different output intermediate frequencies permit different local oscillator frequencies to be used in the different tuner channels. Such an arrangement reduces beating between the downconverter local oscillators.
[0037] The tuning arrangement shown in FIG. 3 differs from that shown in FIG. 2 in various ways as described hereinafter. This embodiment includes various features which may be provided but which are optional so that different embodiments would comprise different combinations of these features.
[0038] The buffer 11 shown in FIG. 3 may comprise an LNA as described with reference to FIG. 2 or may comprise a unity gain buffer. The output of the buffer 11 is connected to a terminal 30 of the integrated circuit for providing an RF bypass output for passing the RF input signals substantially unchanged to other circuits without altering the loading, for example on a cable distribution network connected to the RF input 10. The output of the buffer 11 is also connected to the inputs of three bandsplitting filters 31, 32 and 33. The filters 31-33 have fixed frequency response characteristics and divide the broadband input signal into three different sub-bands which are contiguous with or overlap each other. All three of the filters 31-33 may be bandpass filters. Alternatively, the filters may comprise a highpass filter, a lowpass filter and a bandpass filter. Also, any number of such filters may be provided to divide the broadband signal into any desired number of sub-bands.
[0039] The outputs of the filters 31-33 are supplied to multiplexers (MUX) such as 34, each associated with a respective tuner channel. The multiplexer 34 is associated with channel 1 (13) and its output is connected to a filter 35, whose output is connected to the AGC circuit 14. The filter 35 may be a switched response filter which can be controlled to supply signals in different sub-bands of the input band to the filter. Alternatively, the filter 35 may be a tracking filter which tracks the frequency of the local oscillator 18 so as to be substantially centred on the frequency of the currently selected channel.
[0040] The multiplexer 34 and the filter 35 are controlled by the synthesiser 19 in accordance with the currently selected channel. In particular, the synthesiser 19 ensures that the multiplexer 34 selects the sub-band containing the frequency of the selected channel. Similarly, the filter 35 is controlled so that the selected channel is within the sub-band which it passes to the circuit 14. Such an arrangement reduces the signal energy supplied to the following stages while passing the selected channel so that, for example, the intermodulation performance of the subsequent stages can be relaxed. For example, in the case of the frequency changer 16, the intermodulation performance generally improves with increasing power dissipation so that, by reducing the required intermodulation performance, the power dissipation may be reduced. The mixer 17 and other stages may be provided with arrangements which allow the stage power dissipation to be controlled or varied, for example by selection by a user or by an automatic control arrangement based on the performance actually being achieved during operation.
[0041] As mentioned hereinbefore, the first IF filter may be provided externally of the integrated circuit and FIG. 3 illustrates the provision of integrated circuit terminals 36 and 37 for connection to an external filter.
[0042] The embodiment of FIG. 3 further differs from that shown in FIG. 2 in that the individual downconverter local oscillators 23 and frequency synthesisers 24 are replaced by a single local oscillator and synthesiser (which receives the reference signal from the common reference oscillator 29) with the local oscillator signal being supplied to the downconverter mixers 22 of all of the tuner channels. Such an arrangement may be used, for example, where all of the first intermediate frequencies are equal to each other and where all of the output intermediate frequencies are equal to each other. Such an arrangement reduces the required area of the integrated circuit and the power dissipation thereof.
[0043] The output of the amplifier 25 of each tuner channel is connected to an electronic switching arrangement 38 which is controlled by an output select terminal 39. The arrangement 38 comprises a plurality of (in this case two) switches which allow different IF outputs 26 a, 26 b to be selected. Thus, each tuner channel may be switched to different following stages, for example to allow reception of signals having different filtering and/or demodulation requirements.
[0044] Various modifications may be made within the scope of the invention. For example, low noise amplifiers may be provided at the outputs of each of the filters 31-33. Also, further IF amplification may be provided within any of the tuner channels. Further, any of the local oscillators may be of the band-switched type.
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