Specifications

FAA20 Embedded NEXCOM Vocoder
Board Manual
This manual has been prepared for the Federal Aviation Administration.
FA100-00107 (March 2004) – Rev 1.0.0 Page 103
9.0 GLOSSARY
AMBE Advanced Multi-Band Excitation.
C54x TMS320C54x Digital Signal Processor.
CCS Code Composer Studio. A TI DSP software development
tool used to build, execute and test DSP application
programs.
CDROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory.
CPLD Complex Programmable Logic Device
DSP Digital Signal Processor. A processor designed for signal
processing applications, e.g., voice compression.
FAA Federal Aviation Administration.
mA milliamps
NEXCOM Next Generation Communication. An FAA program and/or
system designed to replace current analog double-side band
amplitude modulated (DSB-AM) radio communication with
digital time division multiple access (TDMA) radio
communication.
PLD Programmable Logic Device
SPAD sample/packet add/drop.
TI Texas Instruments.
vocoder A vocoder performs voice coding and decoding using a voice
compression algorithm.