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1 Host Acceptance Test Procedures 8
1.1 Purpose and Scope 8
1.2 Test Definitions 8
Table 1.2-1 - Test Definitions 8
Table 1.2-2 - FDC Noise Power bandwidths 9
Table 1.2-3 - Analyzer Configuration 9
1.3 Equipment List 11
Table 1.3-1 - Equipment List 11
1.4 Vendor Documentation Package 12
2 Security 13
2.1 Conditional Access 13
2.1.1 Host Conditional Access Resource Test [M-Mode] 13
2.2 Copy Protection 18
2.2.1 Analog Program Copy Protection 18
Table 2.2-1 – Macrovision Modes 18
2.2.2 Digital Program Copy Protection 23
2.3 Certificate Storage and Management 32
2.3.1 Certificate CA Structure 32
3 Physical Layer Characteristics 34
3.1 FAT Channel 34
3.1.1 Host FAT Channel Functional Test 34
3.1.2 FAT Channel HRC/IRC Tuning Test 37
3.1.3 Host FAT LO Leakage Test 38
Table 3.1-1 – Video Carriers 39
3.1.4 FAT Channel Micro-reflection Test 40
3.1.5 FAT Channel Phase Noise Tolerance 42
3.1.6 FAT Channel AM Hum Modulation Immunity 43
3.1.7 Host Spurious Emissions Test 44
3.1.8 Host Maximum Individual Carrier Test 46
3.1.9 Host RF Input Return Loss Test 49
3.1.10 Adjacent Channel Characteristics Test 51
3.1.11 Combined Distortions Test 55
Table 3-1-2 – Combined Distrotion Test Equipment List 57
3.2 Forward Data Channel (FDC) 66
3.2.1 Host FDC Channel Parametric Test 66
3.2.2 FDC tuning range and bit rate test 67
3.2.3 FDC Adjacent Channel BER Test 70
4 CableCard InterfACE 75
4.1 Host Device & Initialization 75
4.1.1 Host-CableCARD Interface Visual Test 75
4.1.2 Host Device Capability Discovery 76
4.1.3 Host OOB Signaling Test 78
4.1.4 Host Initialization Test 79
Table 4.1-1 – Pin Signal Monitor 80
4.1.5 OOB Host Control Test 84
4.1.6 Host System Time Test 86
4.1.7 In band Host Control and Host CableCARD Firmware Upgrade Test (Homing) 89
4.1.8 Initialization Error Detection and Handling 99
4.1.9 Host Transport Stream Data Rate Test 103
4.2 Host Channel Change 105
4.2.1 Host Channel Change Functional Test 105
4.3 Man Machine Interface (MMI) Support 107
4.3.1 Host Data Channel Multi-Layer Test 107
4.3.2 Host Application Information and MMI Test 110
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4.4 Extended Channel Support 114
4.4.1 Host Extended Channel Link Layer Test 114
4.4.2 SCTE 65 Service Information Delivered OOB Profiles 1-6 115
5 MULTI-MEDIA INTERFACES 122
5.1 NTSC Analog and Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) 122
5.1.1 Host VBI Pass-Through Test 122
5.1.2 Host Analog Closed Caption Test 123
6 Video 124
6.1 Digital Video 124
6.1.1 Reserved 124
6.1.2 Digital Video Decoding 124
Table 6.1-1 - Digital Video Compression Test Table (Sarnoff SD Formats) 126
Table 6.1-2 - Digital Video Compression Test Table (Sarnoff HD Formats) 128
Table 6.1-3 - Compression Format Constraints 129
Table 6.1-4 – MPEG-2 Coded Values 129
6.1.3 In-Band Service/System Information 132
Table 6.1-5 - In-Band PSIP Test Digital Service List 133
Table 6.1-6 – Descriptor List 134
6.1.4 Closed Captioning 137
Table 6.1-7 – Closed Caption Procedure 139
6.1.5 Emergency Alert Service (EAS) 144
6.1.6 OOB EAS Tests 146
6.1.7 Content Advisory 150
6.2 Video Performance Specifications 156
6.2.1 Uncompressed Digital Video Interface & Signal Formats 156
Table 6.2-1 - Required Video Formats and their Relation to CEA Definitions 156
Table 6.2-2 - Summary of Required Video Formats per EIA/CEA 861 specifications 156
7 Audio 163
7.1 Audio Performance Specifications 163
7.1.1 Audio Parametric/ Digital Audio FunctionalityTest 163
8 Host Device Powering States 164
8.1.1 Host Power Supply Test 164
8.1.2 Host Standby Mode Test 167
Table 8.1-1 – Pin Signals 167
9 Mechanical 169
9.1.1 Host-CableCARD Temperature/Average Power Test 169
10 Multi-FAT Receiver Test 170
11 Equipment configuration 178
12 M-UDCP Interoperability Tests 179
12.1 Scientific Atlanta 179
12.1.1 Scientific Atlanta CORE Interoperability Tests 179
12.1.2 Minimum FAT Power Interoperability test 185
12.1.3 Maximum FAT Power Interoperability test 187
12.1.4 Lower Frequency Interoperability Test 189
12.1.5 Upper Frequency Interoperability Test 190
12.1.6 One Way Legacy OOB Messaging 190
12.1.7 In Band Host Control Firmware Upgrade Test 193
12.2 Motorola 194
12.2.1 Motorola CORE Interoperability Tests 194
12.2.2 Minimum FAT Power Interoperability test 200
12.2.3 Maximum FAT Power Interoperability test 202
12.2.4 Lower Frequency Interoperability Test 204
12.2.5 Upper Frequency Interoperability Test 204
12.2.6 One Way Legacy OOB Messaging 204
12.3 Harmonic 207
12.3.1 Harmonic CORE Interoperability Tests 207
12.3.2 Minimum FAT Power Interoperability test 212
12.3.3 Maximum FAT Power Interoperability test 214
12.3.4 Lower Frequency Interoperability Test 217
12.3.5 Upper Frequency Interoperability Test 217
12.3.6 One Way Legacy OOB Messaging 217
Annex A M-UDCP Vendor Proof of Compliance Submitted Documentation Recommendations 220
Table 1.2-1 - Test Definitions 8
Table 1.2-2 - FDC Noise Power bandwidths 9
Table 1.2-3 - Analyzer Configuration 9
Table 1.3-1 - Equipment List 11
Table 2.2-1 – Macrovision Modes 18
Table 3.1-1 – Video Carriers 39
Table 3-1-2 – Combined Distrotion Test Equipment List 57
Table 4.1-1 – Pin Signal Monitor 80
Table 6.1-1 - Digital Video Compression Test Table (Sarnoff SD Formats) 126
Table 6.1-2 - Digital Video Compression Test Table (Sarnoff HD Formats) 128
Table 6.1-3 - Compression Format Constraints 129
Table 6.1-4 – MPEG-2 Coded Values 129
Table 6.1-5 - In-Band PSIP Test Digital Service List 133
Table 6.1-6 – Descriptor List 134
Table 6.1-7 – Closed Caption Procedure 139
Table 6.2-1 - Required Video Formats and their Relation to CEA Definitions 156
Table 6.2-2 - Summary of Required Video Formats per EIA/CEA 861 specifications 156
Table 8.1-1 – Pin Signals 167