Antares
2000/50, 3000/50, 6000/50 ISA PLATFORM

 

Features:

  • Four independent TI TMS320C31 32-bit floating-point DSPs running at 50 MHz, each with high-speed SRAM, enable algorithms developed for the C31 to be easily ported to the Antares board
  • Multiple memory options supply economical and flexible solutions for different applications and densities on different technologies
  • 512 KB (128 K words) or 2 MB (512 K words) local SRAM per DSP
  • 4 MB (1 M word) or 8 MB (2 M word) global DRAM per board
  • SCbus (or PEB ) connectivity allows standard access to off-the-shelf call processing products and provides the capability to build higher density systems
  • Up to 32-channel capability
  • Security key (dongle) authorizes each Antares board for a specific firmware download
  • Available complementary signal processing products and telephony interfaces reduce time to market
  • SPOX real time operating system and kernel
  • Drivers for MS-DOS ®, UNIX ® (SCO ®, UnixWare , Solaris ®, and AIX ®), OS/2 ®, and Windows NT ®. (Contact your Dialogic Sales Engineer for specific availability.)

Applications:

  • Speech Recognition:
    • Speaker-Independent
    • Speaker-Dependent
    • Discrete
    • Continuous
    • Phonetic
    • Whole Word
    • Barge-In
    • Word Spotting
    • Grammar Spotting
    • Out-of-Vocabulary Rejection
  • Text-To-Speech:
    • Formant Synthesis
    • Phonemic Concatenation
  • Call Processing:
    • ITU-T G.726 ADPCM
    • CELP coding (16 Kb/s)
    • Low bit rate coder
  • Datacomm:
    • Modems
    • Error correction protocols

Antares is a standalone open DSP (Digital Signal Processor) platform developed for medium- and high-density telecommunication applications. The Antares hardware platform with embedded SPOX operating system is supported by a complete open development environment designed to quickly bring call processing technologies to commercial telephony systems. The Antares board can be used in all stages of technology implementation, from initial algorithm development and rapid prototyping through large-scale deployment. The Antares board is a powerful DSP expansion board based on the SCbus . The SCbus provides an open architecture that enables developers to use products from multiple vendors to build a unified call processing solution. SCbus provides features such as distributed switching, logical addressing, and location independent resource management. Antares boards provide the flexibility to support both SCbus-based applications or existing PCM-Expansion Bus (PEB )-based applications. The Antares boards install in IBM ® PC and compatible (ISA bus) computers (80386, 80486, or Pentium -based PC platforms); DEC Alpha processors are also supported.