Mutec iclock, Operating Manual

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CONTENT
INTRODUCTION
About this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
General Function Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Differences between Software V2.10 and V2.11 . . . . . . . 8
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Optional Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
CONTROL ELEMENTS
iCLOCK Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
iCLOCK dp Rear Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
INSTALLATION
Content of the Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Placing the Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Wiring the Word Clock and Video Interfaces . . . . . . . . . 11
Wiring the AES/EBU and S/PDIF Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . 12
GENERAL OPERATION
Menu Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Selecting Menu Pages and setting Functions . . . . . . . . 14
MENUS AND FUNCTIONS
Main Menu Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Selecting and activating Clock Sources . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Configuring the internal Video Reference Generator . . . . 18
Configuring the Word Clock Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Configuring the AES/EBU Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Configuring the S/PDIF Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Setting System Functions
(Pull Up/Pull Down, Varispeed, etc.)
. . 25
Preset Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
iCLOCK TECHNOLOGY
Functional Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SoftReLock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Sequence Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Cycle Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
iCLOCK EXTENSIONS
iC-ALARM up to V2.10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
iC-ALARM/GPI from V2.11 or higher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
General Function Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
APPENDIX
Synchronizable HD tri-level Standards and Frame Rates . . . 37
Synchronizable and generatable Clock Rates . . . . . . . . . 37
Pin Assignment of the Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Connecting the universal Clock Inputs to Ground . . . . . . 39
Switching-off the Termination of the universal Clock Inputs 39
Splitting-up the Video Outputs for dual
Video Generator Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Technical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40