User`s manual

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SECTION 1 – INTRODUCTION
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An Overview of the ISP-100
The ISP-100 is the first in a line of high quality signal processing products from
Telex Communication’s Merlin
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division. Merlin represents a continued
commitment to understanding and meeting our customers needs through the
development of innovative and intuitive solutions.
The ISP-100 is designed with flexibility in mind, providing a powerful tool that
allows you to adapt to ever-changing markets and applications. The utmost in
quality is also a prime directive in the design and manufacture of this, as well as
all future products from Merlin. A versatile platform, utilizing the latest in DSP
technology, allows Merlin to quickly adapt to new market demands and
continually changing improvements and advancements in the semiconductor
industry.
A series of pre-defined, signal path topologies, called QuickMaps
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are offered,
which enable the designer to quickly define the system’s processing structure.
This approach allows for a continuation of new processing solutions and/or
variations, providing “market specific” templates to help minimize your design
time, and increase your profit. The introduction of the QuickBUILD
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design
software offers the designer or installer the ability to create custom mappings in a
matter of minutes.
Since this single rack space unit can replace a multitude of traditional analog
components, time and money savings are realized in reduced labor costs for wire
harnessing, rack size and assembly, and minimized failure due to connection
solder joints. As a result of this consolidation of processing, overall system
performance and audio integrity is greatly increased.
An ergonomically designed software interface called VUE-IT
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provides graphic
control panels with the “conventional” look of signal processors, as well as an
advanced and easy to use filter tool, which graphically displays the configuration
of your filter block settings.
One of the most impressive and unique features of the ISP-100 is the
configurable input/output (I/O). This feature allows the designer or installer to
select between analog input or output modules, and/or a digital input/output
combination module. These modules are two channel units and can be
intermixed between analog and digital, providing a variety of I/O combinations.
The ISP-100 supports a maximum of 4 inputs, with a maximum of eight outputs,
thus offering combinations like 2x4, 2x6, 2x8, 4x4, 4x6, or, 2 in digital x 8 out
analog, and so on. The current series of QuickMaps support most of these I/O
configurations, with more on the drawing board to be released soon.