AMBE-20x0™-HDK Development Board
User’s Manual
(Preliminary)
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DVSI Confidential Proprietary
Section 1 – Introduction
Overview
The AMBE-20x0™ Hardware Development Kit (HDK) is designed to streamline the development of
products engineered around the AMBE-2000™ Vocoder chip. The AMBE- 20x0™ HDK is a completely
functional system from the analog audio interface to the digital channel interface. The straightforward
design of the board provides a variety of user interfaces and test points that allow designers to rapidly
prototype their own AMBE-2000™ designs.
Digital Voice Systems’ AMBE-2000™ Vocoder Chip is the core of the AMBE-20x0™ HDK. All of the
supporting chips on the board were chosen for their low cost, ease of use and wide availability. The
control, I/O and timing of the board is handled by the Texas Instruments MSP430 microprocessor unit
(MCU). The MSP-430 flash image is easily programmed using an MSP430-FET serial programmer a
low cost development tool from Texas Instruments. The HDK incorporates a Xilinx programmable logic
device (PLD). This is used for the serial to parallel conversion between the AMBE-2000™ Vocoder Chip
and the MSP430 microcontroller. The PLD is programmed using a XILINX ISP.
The AMBE-20x0 HDK is designed to run in a standalone nature. The RS-232 interface can looped back
so that the input goes through the AD/DA process the result is sent to the output. The AMBE- 20x0™
HDK is also a stand-alone voice processing board, equipped with connections for analog audio I/O, a
RS-232 serial UART port communication channel interface, and a RS-232 control port.
The AMBE-20x0™ HDK can demonstrate the capabilities and benefits of a low-bit-rate vocoder in real
time communication systems, without investing much time in engineering. Once a new product design is
complete and manufacturing begins the AMBE-20x0™ HDK can then be used to simulate actual system
conditions as a quality control reference standard.
The HDK contains everything needed to begin testing and running a voice compression communication
system without having to install additional hardware / software.
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