International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Advancing technology continually generates larger quantities of data at increasingly high
transfer rates which fuels the need for instrumentation to take up the challenge of
efficiently managing the collection of data. This defines the driving force behind the
desire for increased channel capacity of PCM data formatters. By incorporating state-of-the-art Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology coupled with high-performance Field
Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), Inter-Coastal Electronics has designed the IF-810, a
PCM data formatter. The IF-810 allows eight channels of PCM data, one voice channel
and an InterRange Instrumentation Group (IRIG)-B channel to be combined and
formatted for recording onto the TEAC RX-800 series recorders using a Hi8 8mm video
cassette as the recording media. During playback, the IF-810 clocks the PCM data out
using a reconstructed version of the input clock. With this unique design, the PCM data
and clock outputs are input directly to a decommutator which eliminates the need for
costly bit-synchronizers. This paper discusses the integration of the DSP, FPGA and
buffering techniques into a low-cost and efficient multi-channel PCM data formatter that
accommodates high data rate inputs, all without the need of a bit-synchronizer for
decommutation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607602 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Kirk, William S., Kirkpatrick, Shawn, Mussemann, Evan |
| Contributors | Inter-Coastal Electronics Inc. |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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