Danville Introduces the New Snowbird™ Audio Processing Module

Danville Signal Processing are taking part in the 2016 NAMM event in Anaheim, California from 21st to 24th January. You can meet Dennis and the team on Booth 154, located in the lobby area.

If you do stop by the stand you will be among the first to see a demonstration of the brand new Snowbird™ Audio Module, a High-Performance Programmable DSP Hardware and Software Platform, designed to let you easily incorporate sophisticated audio DSP features into any product.

If you are interested in setting up a private meeting at NAMM please email Denis Labrecque at dlabrecque@danvillesignal.com

The Snowbird™ Digital Audio Processing Board is a stand-alone, high performance audio platform
designed to let you quickly and easily integrate sophisticated Audio DSP into a product. Featuring a powerful Analog Devices’ SHARC DSP, high quality I/O with an AKM stereo codec, and a custom software interface, the Snowbird™ Audio Module is the ideal platform for a variety of audio applications, including Guitar effects/Stomp Boxes, Amplifiers, Keyboards, Mixers, Eurotrack designs & more.

The Snowbird™  is for everyone - from experienced digital designers who want a flexible processing solution to analog experts that are considering a digital alternative.

You can use any of the pre- built audio functions - EQs, crossovers, mixers etc - or combine them with your own custom processing to create exactly what you need. The Snowbird Audio Module is also supported by a custom version of DSP Concepts’ Audio Weaver™ programming software. Audio Weaver is a powerful graphical design package that lets you create your signal processing chain by simply dragging and dropping highly optimised audio processing modules. Once the design is complete, the file can be saved and run stand-alone on the Snowbird Audio Module.

 

Danville Signal is targeting Spring 2016 for release. Please contact Sarsen Technology for more information.

Danville Signal Processing Announces dspSoM 589 based on Analog Devices SHARC® ADSP-SC589

Never ones to rest on their laurels, the team at Danville Signal Processing are about to release their most powerful DSP module to date.

The dspSoM™ 589 is designed around the latest SHARC Processor from Analog Devices, the ADSP-SC589.
The new board is a highly integrated, small form factor "System on Module" that combines the ADSP-SC589 SHARC processor with external memory and connectivity. It also provides you with a comprehensive platform for efficient development and production, and is ideal for fast time to market of high performance audio and industrial products. 

As with all the products from Danville, the connectivity and peripheral set has been selected to best compliment the Analog Devices processors' feature set, and deliver an optimised development platform for your designs as well as a production ready target for manufacturing. 
 
The ADSP-SC58x products complement the SHARC+ cores and DSP accelerators with the addition of an ARM® Cortex-A5 processor, with FPU and Neon® DSP extensions to handle additional real-time processing tasks and manage peripherals used to interface to time-critical data in audio, industrial closed-loop control, and industrial sensing applications.

For more information please contact the Sarsen Technology engineering team on +44 1672 511166 or email us - info@sarsen.net

 

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS PRE-RELEASE INFORMATION - ALL SPECIFICATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

Automotive NVH Data Logging for Todays Vehicles

Author - Laura


The Ford Model A was the original car produced by Ford, and was first sold to Ernst Pfennig, a Chicago dentist on July 23, 1903. Only 1,750 Model As were made from 1903 through 1904, until it was replaced by the Ford Model C during 1904.

The car came as a two-seater runabout or four-seater tonneau model with an option to add a top. The horizontal-mounted flat-2, situated amidships of the car, produced 8 hp (6 kW). A planetary transmission was fitted with two forward speeds and reverse, a Ford signature later seen on the Ford Model T. The car weighed 1,240 lb (562 kg) and could reach a top speed of 28 mph (45 km/h). It had a 72 inch (1.8 m) wheelbase and sold for a base price of US$750. Band brakes were used on the rear wheels.

Although Ford advertised the Model A as the "most reliable machine in the world", it suffered from many problems common to vehicles of the era, including overheating and slipping transmission bands. 


Cars today go through stringent tests in the development stage, before they even reach the market. 
United Electronic Industries (UEI)’s popular UEILogger Cube in conjunction with the DNA-AI-211 ICP/IEPE interface and the DNA-AI-208 or AI-224 strain gage interfaces have been used by a wide variety of customers in the study of vehicle NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) characteristics.

The Cube is an ideal measurement platform for in-vehicle automobile NVH testing, being compact, rugged and running off any power supply between 9 and 36 VDC. This combination makes it easy to fit the cube in the boot, engine bay or underneath a seat. As well as logging the NVH data, the UEILogger can also acquire CAN data, allowing simply correlation between the vehicle dynamics (e.g., speed, RPM) and NVH.

All this is possible without writing any code as the UEILogger is programmed by a simple, intuitive Windows GUI. 

For more information please get in touch with our UEI specialist - Tony Seal - on +44 1672 511166 or by email - tony.seal@sarsen.net

Training on a Friday afternoon....

Every so often at Camp Sarsen, we decide it’s time to refresh our knowledge and tap into our manufacturer’s vast resources with a little bit of training.

This week UEI are sharing their secrets about the UEISIM. It's a great bit of kit, and it's one that has seen growing interest over the last few months. So we decided to swot up to make sure we're ready to answer all your questions about the hardware and how it works.

The UEISIM is available on PPC Cube, GigE Cube and RACKtangle platforms

In basic terms, the UEISIM turns a PowerDNx Ethernet data acquisition module into a target on which you can run Simulink models and read/write physical I/O. It offers Simulink users a flexible I/O target for real time applications like simulation model verification, rapid prototyping, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. You can use it to experiment with control system design, signal processing, data acquisition and similar tasks directly from the Simulink environment, without the need to use any additional tools.

We will be delving into UEISIM nitty-gritty this afternoon, looking at the software, I/O capabilities, deployment scenarios, ruggedisation, chassis design and connectivity ports and interfaces.

If our brains are still intact after all then give us a call to:
a) test us, or
b) discuss your Simulink application!

T - +44 1672 511166
E - info@sarsen.net

Have a great weekend!

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance". Confucius

Analog Input Module from General Standards Corp....

Here at Sarsen we are always excited when one of our manufacturers releases a new product.

General Standards have recently announced a wide-range 24-Bit, 16-channel, 105KSPS analog input module, with 16 wide-range (high-Level, low-Level) delta-sigma input channels.

It’s available in PMC, PCI, cPCI and PC104-Plus and PCI Express form factors, and uses the PMC form factor as a basic template.

The 24DSI16WRC is packed with features, including -

- 16 wide-range differential 24-Bit simultaneously-sampled analog input channels. 

- Input sample rates to 105 Kilosamples per second per channel. 

- Software-selectable analog input ranges of ±10mV, ±100mV, ±1V, ±10V. 

- Delta-Sigma input conversion minimizes or eliminates the need for antialias filtering. 

- 256K-sample analog input FIFO buffer.

- Continuous and Burst One-shot sampling modes.


- Sample clock source selected as internal or external. 

- Supports multiboard synchronization of analog inputs. 

- On-demand internal offset and gain autocalibration of all analog inputs. 

- 4-Bit bi-directional digital port. 

- Software-controlled master clock frequency fine-adjustment. 

- 66MHz PCI support, with universal 5V/3.3V signaling and DMA support. 

- Large FPGA supports optional features such as counter/timers.

Optimized for flexibility and performance, the board is ideal for a wide variety of applications, ranging from simple precision voltage measurements, to the analysis of complex audio signals and waveforms. 

Each of 16 analog input channels contains a lowpass image filter, and a delta-sigma A/D converter that provides inherent antialias suppression and sharp cutoff lowpass filtering. An internal voltage reference can be applied to all channels to support self-test operations and auto calibration.

Contact the Sales Team at Sarsen Technology for more info.......