Digital Signal Processing is a widely used
technique in the communications industry, to improve the acurracy
and reliability of digital signals. Texas Instruments makes
several DSP chips, and the one focused on in our senior project
is their TMS320C31. Texas Instruments also provides an evaluation
board for this chip, so different analog signals can
be evaluated by a user. This evaluation board, however, can
be improved by the addition of analog and digital inputs/outputs
and increased memory. This is where we come in. Our
senior project invloves designing an expansion board for the
TMS320C31 evaluation board. Currently, the evaluation board has
only one analog I/O, limited memory and no digital I/O.
The ultimate goal of the project is to design a product that can
be marketed to small businesses and universities. This will involve
researching manufacturers to build the boards for us and research
on layout packages so we can provide the desired layout and
appropriate Gerber files (Gerber is the industry standard for sending
data to a photoplotter)of the expansion
board to the manufacturer. This is new ground for both of us, because
neither of us have knowledge on layout packages or how to use them!
The following links will provide more detailed information about the
functionality of the expansion board, system and sub-system block
diagrams, standards and literature associated with the project and
a data sheet.
