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- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: microcontrollers
- Message-ID: <BxMII1.28r@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- From: govindg@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Girish Govind)
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:01:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.023508.13285@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Nov12.180027.5230@bnr.ca>
- Organization: University of Cincinnati
- Keywords: sizes? Exrternal Memory Capability
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- In article <1992Nov12.180027.5230@bnr.ca> mwandel@bnr.ca (Markus Wandel) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov12.023508.13285@tamsun.tamu.edu> rahhelp@rigel.tamu.edu (Ronald A. Huizar) writes:
- >>
- >>One problem that I am already see is that the microcontroller I was
- >>planning to use the MC68HC811E2 can only address about 64K of external
- >>memory, and we are planning/contemplating storing the message
- >>digitally. I have not had much DSP, my partner has had more than I,
- >>but I figure that for the telephone we will need to sample at least
- >>6000 Hz (since the phone BW is 30-3000, you remember Nyquist don't
- >>you). For a 1 minute (kinda long I know) message that will require
- >>about 3 Meg of memeory. To much for the E2. So I know that the
- >>microprocessors can handle the amount of memory I would need but I did
- >>want to have build my own computer first.
- >
-
- Why not do some compression while you are getting the data? You can try one of
- the data bandwidth reduction methods -- delta modulation etc should
- be pretty easy to do. I guess obtaining a model for short-term data may also
- be possible (this is just a thought) computing the reflection coefficients etc
- is pretty optimized now.
-
- I have a "Phone-Mate" answering machine that does digital recording of
- messages. It takes messages of total length about 35minutes. And this thing
- costed me about 130 bucks. So, if you can compute the amount of memory (10MB!)
- you will know that they are not just saving the message samples directly! The
- reconstructed speech is a little rusty but it's alright.
-
- There is a TI Voice-Band Audio Processor that seems like a pretty good thing
- to use for a project like this. It has stuff for preprocessing and
- postprocessing (amplification) etc. built onto it.
-
- This is just off the top of my head. My $0.02.
-
- -- Girish Govind
-
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