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SigC5/6xx-PC104 Wireless Board

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SigC54xx or SigC67xx PC/104 cards

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SigC5xx-PC104 Wireless Board. -- Click here to see full-size picture

SigC6xx-PC104 Wireless Board. -- Click here to see full-size picture

Overview

Applications for the SigC5/6xx-PC104 Wireless Board include base-station processing, VoIP (voice-over Internet protocol) networking functions, VoDSL (voice-over DSL), Internet routing, multiple-channel speech or audio code / decode (e.g. G.7xx, GSM, or MELP speech compression and MP3 audio compression), modem banks, echo cancellation, and speech recognition.

Note: Due to the size of the 802.11b module and optional antenna, the SigC5/6xx-PC104 Wireless Board exceeds PC/104 format dimensions and is not fully compliant with PC/104 specification v2.3 in dimensions and mechanical considerations.

The SigC5/6xx-PC104 Wireless Boardprovides 802.11b wireless WLAN capability when combined with either a host Pentium processor PC/104 board or one of Signalogic's DSP or communications PC/104 boards.

The SigC5/6xx-PC104 Wireless Board is fully compliant with the 802.11b standard, including 2.4 GHz Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) 11 Mbps data rate and is interoperable with Wi-Fi certified products. In addition to 11 Mbps, data rates of 5.5, 2 and 1 Mbps per channel are also supported. The card includes an Auto Fall-Back mode. Carrier rates are selectable for North America, Japan, Europe (ETSI), Spain, and France. Modulation types CCK, DQPSK, and DBPSK are supported.

The card includes hardware-enabled 64/128-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) data encryption. An optional detachable antenna is specifically designed for embedded application solutions.

When used with Signalogic DSP and I/O PC/104 boards, the SigC5/6xx-PC104 Wireless Boardcombines 802.11b wireless capability with a wide variety of I/O options, including network, telephony, and several types of serial I/O. In addition, the board interfaces with modules with Texas Instruments C54xx, C55xx, or C67xx DSP processors and modules with 16-bit audio, speech, or other analog I/O. The SigC5/6xx-PC104 Wireless Board is suitable for defense electronics, embedded telecom, Internet infrastructure, or data acquisition and measurement applications where wireless communications is required but space is at a premium.

The SigC5/6xx-PC104 Wireless Board may also be used independently with Pentium based or other host processor boards.

Applications

Applications for the SigC5/6xx-PC104 Wireless Board include remote data acquisition and monitoring and measurement, mobile and portable communications, wide-area networking, DSL networking, base-station processing, VoIP (voice-over Internet protocol) networking functions, VoDSL (voice-over DSL), Internet routing, multiple-channel speech or audio code / decode (e.g. G.7xx, GSM, or MELP speech compression and MP3 audio compression), modem banks, echo cancellation, and speech recognition

SigC5/6xx-PC104 Board Feature Summary

802.11b wireless WLAN and communications capability
2.4 GHz Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
Up to 11 Mbps data transfer rate
Supports ad-hoc and infrastructure network configurations
Compatible with Pentium PC/104 platforms running Win9x or Win2k

Super I/O

Quad RS-422/423 synchronous serial ports
Dual RS-232 serial ports
Ethernet 10/100 Mbps (with intergrated transceiver)
Quad T1/E1 telephone interface (with integrated frames/transceivers)
USB
Multiprocessor C54xx and C67xx DSP modules
Parallel digital 16-bit I/O
High-speed host interface
Class I, II and III boards available to allow configuration with more than one wireless module, or other modules to be installed on the board
Supports mutichannel analog I/O interface with SigSD4 Audio Module or other analog I/O modules installed
Boot/FLASH EEPROM for stand-alone operation

Specifications and Data Sheets

Wireless Specifications Hardware

Onboard module, contains 32-bit NET+ARM high-performance RISC processor (NS7520 @ 55 MHz)
4 MB Flash and 8 MB RAM on-board memory
High-speed TTL serial interface
- Throughput up to 230 Kbps
Full signal support for TXD, RXD, RTS, CTS, DTR, DSR and DCD

Hardware/software flow control

Five shared General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) ports
Link integrity and Network activity LEDs

Network

802.11b, 2.4 GHz
up to 11 Mbps data rate with automatic fallback
Modulation: CCK (11/5 Mbps), DQPSK (2 Mbps), DBPSK (1 Mbps)
Transmit power: 16 dBm typical
Receive sensitivity: -82 dBm @ 11 Mbps
Antenna connector: RP-SMA female
Antenna: dipole RP-SMA male (included)

Environmental

Operating temperature: -20ºC to +85ºC (-4ºC to +185ºC)
Relative humidity: 5% to 90% (non-condensing)
Altitude: 12,000 ft (3657.6 m)

Wireless Security

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)

64/128-bit encryption (RC4)

WPA/WPA2/802.11i
128-bit TKIP/CCMP encryption
802.1x EAP authentication

LEAP (WEP only), PEAP, TTLS, TLS
GTC, MD5, OTP, PAP, CHAP, MSCHAP,
MSCHAPv2, TTLS-MSCHAPv2

Enterprise and Pre-Shared Key (PSK) mode

Telephony T1/E1 Interface

When used with Super I/O, the combined board set provides a Dallas Semiconductor DS2155 device with integrated framer/transceiver that provides a T1/E1 interface available on a header at the board edge.

Rev. D Super I/O, SigC54xx, and SigC67xx PC/104 boards provide a PMC-Sierra PM4354 device with integrated framers and transceivers that provide a quad T1/E1 interface at headers on the board edge. Up to 96 data streams may be processed by the module sites.

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.

Network Interface

When used with Super I/O, SigC54xx, or SigC67xx PC/104 boards, the combined board set provides a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet controller with PHY signals available on a header at the board edge. For VoIP applications, Packet data may be output to the network from DSPs after speech codec, RTP, and jitter processing.

The Ethernet controller is accessible from both host and module sites.

Note that Rev. C Super I/O, SigC54xx, and SigC67xx PC/104 boards do not contain the Ethernet controller.

Serial I/O Interface

When used with Super I/O, SigC54xx, or SigC67xx PC/104 boards, the combined board set 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 performed using onboard CPLD logic, and software programmable. Levels are software-programmable for either RS-422 or RS-423 (balanced or unbalanced).

Rev. D versions of Super I/O, SigC54xx, and SigC67xx PC/104 boards also include a single channel USB interface.

Analog I/O

When used with Super I/O, SigC54xx, or SigC67xx PC/104 boards configured with one or more SigSD4-SODIMM audio modules, the combined board set provides multichannel 16-bit sigma-delta analog I/O as an integrated capability. Audio module features include:

16-bit 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

Boot / FLASH EEPROM

When used with SigC54xx or SigC67xx PC/104 boards, the combined board set provides a 1M x 8 FLASH EEPROM device site for storage of boot code and nonvolatile application data. The boot/FLASH EEPROM enables stand-alone operation.

Stand-Alone Operation Option

When used with SigC54xx or SigC67xx PC/104 boards, the combined board set provides a 1M x 8 FLASH EEPROM device site for storage of boot code and nonvolatile application data.

Digital Parallel I/O Interboard Communication

When used with Super I/O, SigC54xx , or SigC67xx PC/104 boards, the combined board set provides a 16-bit parallel digital I/O Global Bus, brought out via high-density dual-row protected header.

If the SigSD4-SODIMM audio module is used, an additional 8 bits of parallel digital I/O are provides for each module installed on the board. These bits are directly accessible to C54xx and C55xx processors using output instructions to the audio modules. See "Analog I/O" section for more information on the SigSD4 module.

SigC54xx-PC/104 Software Support

The SigC54xx-PC/104 board is supported by Signalogic off-the-shelf software products designed for real-time 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, COEFF 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.

DirectDSP software also includes a telecom extension API which allows access to onboard logic functions, TMD routing / switch table functions, and the T1/E1 and network interfaces.

VDS™ (Voice-over-packet Development System) software is an integrated environment that includes numerous development, analysis, measurement, test debug, and simulation functions for developing VoIP and VoATM systems.

VDS test and measurement features include both packet analysis and packet impairment. Packets may deliberately be impaired with a variety of error types in order to debug and measure performance of system components such as jitter buffer and echo canceller. The VDS environment and architecture supports operation as a fully automated test system.

Individual voice and audio processing components within VDS may be configured either as DSP software (DSP Mode, running on supported DSP hardware), or as host PC software components (Host Mode). Within the VDS user-interface, software components can be easily configured as DSP Mode or Host Mode in various combinations. This flexible and interactive configuration facilitates both development and analysis phases of VoIP and VoATM projects.

VDS includes network-side and telephony-side configuration and management. Voice software settings include CODEC type, echo canceller, jitter buffer, silence suppression, real-time parameters, and packet impairment test and measurement options. Voice software selections made from the GUI directly set properties in the Telogy voice software running in real-time on the C54xx DSP devices.