
AMBE-3000F™ Vocoder Chip Users Manual
Version 3.4, April, 2014
In
itial Design Considerations
4.5.5 Skew Control (SK_ENABLE TQFP pin 6 BGA pin D3)
The AMBE-3000F™ Vocoder Chip processes speech in voice frames that are approximately 20 ms in duration. Skew control
can provide the designer with flexibility in dealing with clock drift. The AMBE-3000F™ Vocoder Chip skew control feature
allows the vocoder chip to compensate for drift between the frame and sample rate clocks.
Codec Mode
When skew control is enabled, the AMBE-3000F™ Vocoder Chip adjusts the frame boundaries so that they occur on the rising
edge of the TX_RQST signal. The user must generate the TX_RQST signal such that the frame size varies between 156 and
164 samples.
Packet Mode Skew Control Enable
In packet mode the normal length of the input speech packets is 160 samples. However this can vary between 156 and 164
samples in length. Output speech packets can also vary in length from 156 to 164 samples.
4.5.6 Noise Suppressor (NS_ENABLE TQFP pin 7 BGA pin D2)
The integrated Noise suppressor feature of the AMBE-3000F™ Vocoder Chip is used to reduce the effect of background noise
in the encoder input signal. The Noise suppressor is applied to both silence frames and voice frames, but not tone frames.
When the noise suppressor is started it may take up to a few seconds to converge allowing for it to begin fully working.
4.5.7 Companding Using A-Law and µ-Law
The format of the digital speech I/O is critical to designing a system with superior voice quality. It is recommended that, when
possible, 16-bit linear PCM data sampled at 8 kHz, be used for maximum voice quality. The AMBE-3000F™ Vocoder Chip
supports either 16-bit linear, 8-bit A-law, or 8-bit µ-law formats. Given that a-law and law companding formats already
incorporate some compression to reduce the number of bits per sample, when choosing either format, pay particular attention to
Signal to Noise ratios and Frequency Responses of any filters that may be present on the analog front end. The a-law and
law interfaces are provided for the design engineer who is trying to fit to pre-existing conditions or is under other cost type
restraints. To enable/disable companding and select the format, use either hardware pins as described in the following tables or
the COMPAND field (ID 0x32) as part of a Control packet.
CP_ENABLE TQFP pin 8 BGA pin D1
Companding Disabled 0
Companding Enabled 1
Table 11 Companding Control
CP_SELECT TQFP pin 9 BGA pin F5
Select µ-law 0
Select a-law 1
Table 12 Companding Selection
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