ASTi Telestra 4 Training Manual (Ver. 1, Rev. F)
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7.0. Host Interface
Hosts are representations of packet inter-
faces which link state data from the user’s
host application software to user developed
sound and communications models in a
Project. Each packet interface structure
built into a model will have a correspond-
ing host at the Project level. Hosts can
either be input or output since state infor-
mation can flow between models and host
applications in either direction.
The ACE Studio host interface is made up
of two parts, host containers and their cor-
responding sockets at the project level and
host I/O packets at the model level.
Each host container icon on the canvas is
used to configure the packet interface with
the appropriate UDP port and physical
Ethernet port (eth0, eth2) on a Target.
In the host model, each host I/O packet is used to define the information contained in the Host
UDP packet. The host I/O packet is commonly called the Interface Control Document (ICD). The
ICD defines and controls input offsets, data types and UDP port number, etc.
This approach dereferences the models such that they carry no specific network configuration
information, making them reusable across platforms without configuration changes.
