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- VANCOUVER, B.C. - March 23 -- Spectrum Signal Processing today joined with
- Motorola to introduce a four-layer, multi-interface digital audio
- evaluation board based on Motorola's new DSP56401 audio transceiver. The
- DSP56401 serves the fast-growing multi-media and professional audio
- markets by providing industry standard digital audio transmission
- interfaces.
-
- Spectrum's DSP56401 evaluation board, designed around the DSP56401
- AES/EBU/CP340 compliant digital audio transceiver, is outfitted with
- interfaces to virtually any type of audio equipment or DSP device. It
- includes digital audio input/output ports for balanced, unbalanced and
- optical transmission media, and ports to communicate with Motorola's
- DSP56001 and new DSP56002 devices, and with the DSP56156, the company's
- 16-bit DSP with on-chip sigma delta analog-to-digital conversion designed
- for digital cellular applications. The evaluation board also features
- Philips International standard (I2S), Burr-Brown and Japanese converter
- interfaces. In addition to multi-media and professional audio users, the
- board can also be applied in sophisticated data acquisition systems.
-
- "Spectrum's DSP56401 evaluation board provides customers with a complete
- development system to design digital audio subsystems for applications
- such as multimedia workstations and home entertainment recording systems,"
- said Bryant Wilder, Motorola's DSP operations manager. "We're pleased to
- partner with Spectrum to serve our customers' migration from analog to
- digital audio application."
-
- "We are delighted to be working closely with Motorola on its new family of
- DSPs," said Barry Jinks, Spectrum president. "Both Motorola and Spectrum
- recognize the high growth potential for DSP technology in the Multi-media
- and professional audio markets, and we believe these new ICs and boards
- will find an eager audience in each."
-
- Among the DSP56401 board's features are ports that permit designers to link
- multiple DSP56401 EVBs in time-division multiplexed series. Separate
- balanced-line XLR connectors and unbalanced-line RCA connectors are
- included for audio applications. A total of 76 jumpers enable various
- combinations of connections, adding flexibility as yet unavailable from
- any competitive product.
-
- "Digital audio system developers need to be able to adapt to a broad range
- of equipment and devices, so the board has been designed to be as flexible
- and versatile as possible, in the same spirit that Motorola has designed
- the 56401," said Jinks. "These are still very new and fragmented markets
- characterized by users who want to work with various interfaces, and we
- want to serve as many of them as we can."
-
- Jinks added that developers of professional audio systems based on digital
- processing represents one of the fastest-growing groups of enthusiastic
- DSP device users.
-
- The DSP56401 board requires +5 VDC and includes an on-board DC-DC converter
- to get the 12V needed for VCO circuitry. A key feature is an optical
- interface that can be used with emerging standards such as digital audio
- tape.
-
- The new board will be available from Spectrum Signal Processing at the end
- of the second quarter. Pricing will begin at $US495 each in single
- quantities.
-
- Spectrum Signal Processing is a leading developer of system and processor
- boards, software tools, hardware systems and other digital signal
- processing products for the PC, VME and SBus environments. These systems
- support Digital Signal Processors from Motorola including the DSP96002 and
- DSP56001). Spectrum's unique modular DSP hardware allows users to
- interface off-the-shelf peripheral I/O boards with the DSP processor of
- their choice via the DSP~LINK system expansion interface. Spectrum Signal
- Processing Inc. is publicly traded on the Vancouver Stock Exchange under
- the symbol SSY.
-
- Spectrum Signal Processing Inc
- Suite 301-3700 Gilmore Way, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5G 4M1
-
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