SigC54/55xx-PCI Multiple DSP and Telephony/Analog I/O Board

The SigC54/55xx-PCI board is a "short form" PCI format board, fully compliant with PCI specification v2.2 (PCISIG, "Conventional PCI") both electrically and mechanically. The dimensions of the board are 170 mm (length) x 97 mm (height, not including PCI edge connector).

• Up to four (4) SODIMM sites for C54xx/C55xx DSP processor or I/O modules

• Standard "short form" PCI card with 33 MHz 32-bit PCI host interface

• Quad T1/E1 telephony interface (integrated framers and transceivers), available both at RJ-45 connectors on backplate and MVIP H.100 connector

• Dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface

• 8-line POTS telephony interface

• Support multichannel analog I/O interface with SigSD4 Audio Module or other analog I/O modules are installed

• Flexible onboard TDM stream routing, via programmable PLD switch matrix under host software control

• Dual RS-232 asynchronous serial ports

• Four (4) RS-422/423 synchronous serial ports

• Boot/FLASH EEPROM

• Global Bus expansion header

• 1149.1 JTAG header

• Supported by  DirectDSP®, and Hypersignal® software

Specifications and Data Sheets

• SigC54/55xx-PCI Data Sheet (1933 KB) 

• SigC54xx-SODIMM Module Data Sheet (341 KB)

T1/E1 Quad Telephony Interface

The SigC54/55xx-PCI board contains a PMC Sierra PM4354 quad T1/E1 device with integrated framers and transceivers that provides a telephony interface available on both a standard MVIP H.100 connector and four (4) RJ-45 connectors (located at the board backplate, using RJ-48C electrical wiring specification).

In addition to the RJ-45 connectors, the telephony interface includes onboard magnetics and activity/status indicators (LEDs).

Command, control, and status information is available to the host interface, and all TDM data is routed to the DSP module sites, via the programmable PLD switch matrix.

Dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet Interface

The SigC54/55xx-PCI board contains a PMC Sierra PM3386 dual 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet device, and provides external interface on two (2) RJ-45 headers at the board backplate.

In addition to the RJ-45 connectors, the Ethernet Interface includes onboard transceivers, magnetics and activity/status indicators (LEDs built into the RJ-45 connectors at the board backplate).

POTS Telephony Interface

The SigC54/55xx-PCI contains 2x quad-SLAC devices (2x "QSLAC" devices) and 8x SLIC devices and associated circuitry, to allow connection to four (4) sets of 2-line POTS connections (8 POTS lines total). Magnetics and RJ-11 connectors are not located on the board; instead, 8x2 dual inline headers are provided at the top of the board for ribbon cable connection to four (4) external RJ-11 connectors.

Command, control, and status and all TDM data are routed to the DSP module sites, via the programmable PLD switch matrix.

TDM Routing PLD

The SigC54/55xx-PCI board contains an onboard PLD logic device that allows flexible serial port/TDM routing capabilities. For example, PLD logic is used to multiplex both quad SLAC devices into one (1) TDM stream to match the natural architecture of the C54xx/C55xx DSP family and facilitate DSP software development. As another example, the PLD logic allows quad T1/E1 data to be routed to any combination of DSP module sites.

Combined with SigC54xx/C55xx processor modules, the SigSD4-SODIMM Audio Module offers multichannel 16-bit sigma-delta analog I/O as an integrated component in the modular solution. Audio Module features include:

• sigma-delta converters that provide sharp anti-alias and reconstruction filter roll-off, and nearly linear phase response

• sampling rates and filter cutoff frequencies are software programmable; all channels are sampled simultaneously

• TDM (time division multiplex) serial output allows distribution of multichannel audio data to one or more DSP processors; audio data can be replicated among processors, or distributed uniformly, as needed

• analog input/output signals are routed directly to the module using a small-outline Mictor 38-pin connector that supports individually shielded conductors

Serial I/O Interface

The SigC54/55xx-PCI card provides four (4) synchronous serial channels and two (2) RS-232 asynchronous serial channels. All serial I/O signals are available at board edge; routing is software-programmable and levels are software-programmable for either RS-422 or RS-423 (balanced or unbalanced).

SigC54/55xx-PCI Software Support

The SigC54/55xx-PCI card, as well as other C54xx/C55xx platforms such as the Texas Instruments DSK C5402 board, are supported by Signalogic off-the-shelf DSP software products designed for DSP-based real-time processing and C54xx/C55xx DSP code development, including:

• Hypersignal®-Macro and Hypersignal-Acoustic software series, which offer a number of simulation and real-time instrument functions. Simulation functions include DSP and math functions, time domain display (including waterfall, contour, magnitude, unwrapped phase), difference equation, digital FIR and IIR filter design, sampling rate conversion, frequency zoom, wavelet transform, minimum phase calculation, and many more. Instrument functions include spectrum analyzer, digital oscilloscope, stimulus & response measurement, continuous signal generation, real-time; "snap-in"; filtering, continuous disk record and generate, and more.

• DirectDSP® is a Windows library that provides low-level and high-level calls for user-defined C/C++, Visual Basic, MATLAB®, or LabVIEW®programs. The DirectDSP API includes low-level hardware control functions such as reset/run/hold, register access, block memory transfer, DSP executable file download, etc. High-level functions include waveform file acquire/generate, continuous signal generation and execution of any arbitrary Hypersignal DSP or math function. DirectDSP includes strip-chart recorder, digital oscilloscope and digital tape recorder demo program and source code examples.

• The C54xx/C55xx Source Code Interface contains numerous C54xx/C55xx algorithms and functions in source and binary form, such as optimized FFTs, filters, matrix, transcendental, trig, signal manipulation function, processor and card initialization and analog I/O examples, etc. These functions form the basis of higher-level software functions and instruments; modification can be used to customize Hypersignal or DirectDSP software operation. User-defined C routine hooks are provided for real-time algorithm development. The C54xx/C55xx Source Code Interface can be used as a basic foundation for user-defined real-time DSP systems and products