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         C MX 5710 Reference Manual. Rev 1.0 

 

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Getting Started 

Most  CardModules  are  installed  into  the  rack  frames  and  system  tested  in  the 
factory.  If  this  is  an  upgrade  part  or  service  exchange  item  then  the  module  is 
supplied  in  a  padded  cardboard  carton  which  includes  the  CardModule,  rear 
connection plate and mounting screws.  

Packaging 

The  shipping  carton  and  packaging  materials  provide  protection  for  the  module 
during transit. Please retain the shipping cartons in case subsequent shipping of 
the  product  becomes  necessary.  Do  not  remove  the  module  from  its  protective 
static bag unless observing adequate ESD precautions. Please see below. 

ESD Warning 

 

 

 

This  product  is  static  sensitive.  Please  use  caution  and  use  preventative 
measures to prevent static discharge or damage could result to module. 

 

Preventing ESD Damage 

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage occurs when electronic assemblies or the 
components  are  improperly  handled  and  can  result  in  complete  or  intermittent 
failure. 

Do  not  handle  the  module  unless  using  an  ESD-preventative  wrist  strap  and 
ensure that it makes good skin contact. Connect the strap to any solid grounding 
source  such  as  any  exposed  metal  on  the  rack  chassis  or  any  other  unpainted 
metal surface. 

Caution 

Periodically check the resistance value of the antistatic strap. The measurement 
should be between 1 and 10 Megohms. 

Summary of Contents for C MX 5710

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Page 2: ...ut 10 Video Processing 11 A D Converter Functions 11 Proc Amp Functions 11 Aperture Correction 11 Test Pattern 11 Programmable Video Output Delay 11 Audio Processing 12 Analog Audio Inputs 12 Digital Audio I O 12 Processing 12 Frame Synchronization 12 Installation 13 Local Control and LEDs 14 Switch Settings 14 Alarm LED Status Indicators 15 LED Video Status 15 LED Audio Status 15 LED Local Remote...

Page 3: ... Port Setup 22 Analog Audio Inputs 22 Audio Processing 22 Audio Crossbars 23 Embedder 25 Meta Data 26 Time Code 26 Format Description 27 Timing and Delays 28 Video Timing Adjustments 28 Audio Timing Adjustments 28 Timing Tab 29 Device Event Tab 29 Parameters 30 Parameters control everything 31 General GUI functions 32 Device Properties 32 Locate 32 New Control Window 32 Rename 33 Save Settings Now...

Page 4: ...arranty shall not apply to any defect failure or damage caused by improper use or improper or inadequate maintenance and care LYNX Technik shall not be obligated to furnish service under this warranty a to repair damage resulting from attempts by personnel other than LYNX Technik representatives to install repair or service the product b to repair damage resulting from improper use or connection t...

Page 5: ...t is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at t...

Page 6: ... static bag unless observing adequate ESD precautions Please see below ESD Warning This product is static sensitive Please use caution and use preventative measures to prevent static discharge or damage could result to module Preventing ESD Damage Electrostatic discharge ESD damage occurs when electronic assemblies or the components are improperly handled and can result in complete or intermittent...

Page 7: ...e most demanding applications Audio capability includes support for 2 sets of analog stereo pair inputs 24 bit A D conversion and selectable full scale range In addition 2 x digital AES audio ports are provided which can be individually configured as inputs or outputs Integrated audio processing includes adjustable gain phase invert and a sum function Audio channels can also be shuffled using the ...

Page 8: ...C MX 5710 Reference Manual Rev 1 0 Page 8 of 36 Functional Diagram Figure 1 Functional Diagram ...

Page 9: ...C MX 5710 Reference Manual Rev 1 0 Page 9 of 36 Connection Panel and Module Layout Figure 2 Connections Figure 4 Board Figure 3 Board Edge ...

Page 10: ... in and outputs The pinout is as shown in Table 1 Sub D 25 Pinout Pin Number Connection Pin Number Connection 1 Analog Audio In 1L 14 Analog Audio In 1L 2 Analog Audio In 1L GND 15 Analog Audio In 1R 3 Analog Audio In 1R 16 Analog Audio In 1R GND 4 Analog Audio In 2L 17 Analog Audio In 2L 5 Analog Audio In 2L GND 18 Analog Audio In 2R 6 Analog Audio In 2R 19 Analog Audio In 2R GND 7 AES Port 1 20 ...

Page 11: ... available for the output This can be used to add or remove image sharpness as required Test Pattern The output has an integrated test pattern generator which provides a wide selection of test patterns The selected test pattern can also be setup to turn on automatically if no input signal is detected Programmable Video Output Delay The SDI output has a programmable video output delay which can be ...

Page 12: ...ovides manual delay stages on the input and output of the AES signals Processing Four AES channels 8 audio channels of audio processing are available with gain mute and phase invert functions In addition to this each channel has a sine test signal generator as well as over level and silence detection Frame Synchronization The frame synchronizer will output a stable SDI in sync to the connected ref...

Page 13: ...Install the rear connection panel using the screws supplied Do not tighten the screws fully 4 Slide the card module into the card frame and carefully check the CardModule connects to the rear connection plate The card should fit easily and should not require excessive force to insert if you feel any resistance there could be something wrong with the rear connection panel location Do not try and fo...

Page 14: ...ch Settings Below the switch settings for the 8 position dip switch are defined Switch Setting Function 1 ON Enable Local Adjustment OFF Disable Local Adjustment 2 ON Audio Embedder for Group 1 active OFF No Embedding for Audio Embedder Group 1 3 ON Audio Embedder for Group 2 active OFF No Embedding for Audio Embedder Group 2 4 ON Audio Embedder for Group 3 active OFF No Embedding for Audio Embedd...

Page 15: ...e LED Color Indication Green Local control via DIP switches active all settings according to local DIP switches Off Current settings may be overwritten through remote control Alarm LED The Alarm LED is visible through the RackFrame s front cover LED Color Indication Green Normal Operation Yellow Problem with the video inputs and or reference missing Yellow flashing Locate Device activated from Con...

Page 16: ...across the top contains information about the module including name and firmware revision The Position area displays the modules position and physical location This is useful if the device is installed as part of a larger installation NOTE The Locate button in the Position area is a useful tool to quickly identify a module in larger systems Activating Locate will flash the module s alarm LED in ye...

Page 17: ...rrent signal connections as lines i e it does not show any signal lines that are actually unused dead ends Hovering the mouse pointer over any such signal line will highlight the complete signal path that leads to this point This illustrates clearly where the particular signal is coming from Similarly the downstream path is highlighted to show where this signal is going to To re connect a signal c...

Page 18: ...tput e g VBI blanking Color Transmittion Improvement Control etc Frame Synchronizer The C MX 5710 provides a frame synchronizer functionality which will synchronize the converted analog video input to an SDI output referenced to the connected reference input If the module is used as a straight forward A D converter i e the synchronization isn t required the frame synchronizer can be bypassed Figur...

Page 19: ...ription applies to all of the SDI outputs equally unless otherwise noted Aperture Correction Horizontal aperture correction is provided for each output channel which can be used to sharpen or soften the video signal This is sometimes required for down converted video signals as the filtering process rolls off the high frequency very slightly If adjusted in the positive direction this will increase...

Page 20: ...following patterns are provided Full field Black Full field White Full field Yellow Full field Cyan Full field Green Full field Magenta Full field Red Full field Blue 15 Grey full field 75 Color bars 75 Color bars over Red Pathological PLL EQ Test Pattern Standard The P VD 5840 can be used a standalone test In this case this setting can be used to select the exact video format that shall be genera...

Page 21: ...ontain any data NOTE Automatic Content Detection can be overwritten by manual decision click onto the box with the letter P This is only recommended for testing purposes It is strongly recommended to leave the Content Detection algorithm in automatic mode Sample Rate Conversion A Sample Rate Converter SRC is provided for each AES input stream The SRC will re sample the input to a 48kHz sampling ra...

Page 22: ...rt as an output while an external signal source might send a signal into that port This misconfiguration might potentially result in permanent damage of hardware components Analog Audio Inputs Four analog audio inputs are available on the C MX 5710 Internally the signals are converter to AES signals In the converting stage the full scale level can be determined Available full scale levels are 12dB...

Page 23: ...led neutralized when the content type is NOT PCM audio This guarantees that an encoded bitstream such as DolbyE or AC 3 is not disturbed by such processing Audio Crossbars After going through the audio processing stage each internal audio stream is delivered to the output audio crossbar Here each of the possible audio destinations embedder and external outputs can select from all of the available ...

Page 24: ...e the mouse outside of the audio cross bar matrix Drag Drop To have this switching mode activated the entry Audio Crossbar Matrix needs to be de selected An output can be connected to a new source by simply clicking onto an existing connection and dragging and connecting the open handle to the desired source signal Figure 18 Audio Crossbar Operation One single white line in this diagram represents...

Page 25: ...n be routed to any of the embedding channels To turn off any of the four group embedders simply click the emb button just above the audio signal path going into the embedder stage Embedding audio into an HD SDI output stream will always be done in 24bit resolution When embedding into SD SDI 24bit embedding is activated by default but can be de activated reducing the embedding to 20bit This may be ...

Page 26: ...DVITC will be detected if present in the incoming video signal The detection of the Time Code is indicated with present on a green background The insertion lines are also indicated For DVITC two insertions per video signals are possible normally the second insertion is a duplicate of the first one DVITC Reader line selection The reading line of the DVITC Reader can be specified Only the specified ...

Page 27: ... different lines Inserter A and B of the output SDI signal with selectable line numbers of the vertical blanking See table below for standard recommendations Format Description A detected WSS signal on the input video can be reinserted into the SDI output or converted to AFD or VI Figure 22 Time Code Control ...

Page 28: ...imensions are kept constant while the corresponding other dimension might change their current values depending on the current video standard NOTE The adjustable delay applied is in addition to the internal processing delay of the module NOTE Adjusting the Video Output delay always delays embedded audio contents together with the video content Relative audio video timing aka lip sync can only be i...

Page 29: ...n generate can be disabled here which will declare such Events as irrelevant Once an Event has been disabled in this Events Tag the Event will not be reported to the APPolo control system it will not be logged in the logfiles and it will not even influence the local LEDs of the device For all Events that are enabled which is the default as soon as the monitored condition becomes critical e g input...

Page 30: ...arams tab All parameters are defined by the following aspects Code This is a unique code to identify the parameter The Code can contain the slash character to provide some structure to the total collection of parameters The Parameter Code is always to be specified as the complete text string i e including all slashes Name a human readable short parameter name which is used as the default text labe...

Page 31: ...f the LYNX APPolo Control System use exactly the same parameters access and control the devices The LYNX CustomControl feature connects the individual elements of a custom made Design to real device parameters by their Code See http appolo lynx technik com CustomControl for details The LYNX AutoControl automation rules access the individual Parameters for both Conditions and Actions by their Code ...

Page 32: ...s device specific properties about the selected module Locate This function is useful if you need to physically locate a module in a larger system quickly for removal or maintenance purposes When Locate selected this will flash the module alarm LED yellow This function does not impact normal module operation and will timeout after a short time period New Control Window Selecting this option will o...

Page 33: ...n the board by all local LEDs flashing three times in yellow color Consequently if you remove a card from a system BEFORE the last changes have been saved to FlashRAM those last changes will not be available on the next power up The Save Settings Now operation in this menu can force the current configuration of this device to be stored to the local FlashRAM now If in doubt this function should be ...

Page 34: ...r isolated No of Inputs 4 channels on 2x AES channels configured as input or output Output Level 4V peak to peak nominal Connector 25 pin SubD female connector Reference Input Signal Type Analog bi level SDTV or tri level HDTV Auto detect and cross lock compatible Connector 75 Ohm BNC Return Loss 35dB to 5 5 MHz Reference Source External reference or common rack reference selectable Video Outputs ...

Page 35: ...g compensation Adjustment Offsets Manual delay adjustments are offset to the automatic processing compensation Performance Cable Equalization Cable Equalization 270Mbit Up to 250m 820ft using Belden 8281 Cable Equalization 1 485Gbit Up to 140m 459ft using Belden 1694A Electrical Specifications Operating Voltage 12 VDC Power Consumption 12 W Safety IEC 60950 EN 60950 VDE 0805 Mechanical Size 283mm ...

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