
FAA20 Embedded NEXCOM Vocoder
Board Manual
This manual has been prepared for the Federal Aviation Administration.
FA100-00107 (March 2004) – Rev 1.0.0 Page 3
2.0 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
2.1 Overview
The FAA20 is a 4” x 5” embedded card designed to provide DVSI 4.8 kbps
AMBE+ Vocoder functionality. The card is based on the TMS320C5416
Digital Signal Processor (DSP) manufactured by Texas Instrument. Figure
1 is a photograph of the FAA20.
Figure 1: FAA20 Vocoder Board
The voice interfaces for the FAA20 include the PCM serial audio and
compressed nibble interface (available on the DIN connector) as well as an
analog voice interface (available on computer audio jacks). Voice data can
also be transferred (in ASCII format) over the FAA20 RS-232 serial ports.
The FAA20 was designed as a VC20 upgrade. The VC20 is an embedded
board available from DVSI that implements the original floating point
version of the AMBE+ vocoder algorithm. After the release of the VC20,
DVSI developed a fixed point version of the algorithm that has bit exact
properties, i.e. a known input voice vector generates a known output vector.
The FAA20 was produced to use this updated algorithm within NEXCOM
prototyping equipment and to more easily support truncated timing mode.
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