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News Release from: Winbond Electronics Corp America | Subject: ISD15000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2008
Audio recorder IC manages more messages
Single-chip multimessage digital recoding ICs are targeted at automotive, industrial and telecommunications markets.
New from Winbond Electronics Corporation America, the ISD15000 is billed as the world's first single-chip multimessage digital ChipCorder series targeted for the automotive, industrial and telecommunications markets The ISD15000 provides audio-grade record/playback, digital compression, integrated analogue/digital audio signal paths, built-in comprehensive memory management including macro scripts, I2S digital audio interface, faster digital recording and higher sampling frequency
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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More and more content continues to migrate to the digital domain due to ease of use, speed of processing and the ability to quickly and easily share this type of data.
Winbond recognised the need for a solution to capture the proliferation of digital data and released its ISD15000 series offering faster programming, address-free recording and simple index-based commands for playback, longer duration and audio-grade record/playback.
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Using this IC, designers are able to create a single platform for their applications.
Customisations, personalisation and multi-language support can then be easily achieved by swapping sound files "on the fly", with minimal time and efforts spent changing the underlying codes and programming.
The ISD15000 significantly enhances the ChipCorder family by offering the same quality that designers have come to expect from the existing ChipCorder products, while providing enhancements made possible by the digital domain.
Key features of this series include: user-selectable durations from 2 to 32 minutes based on 8kHz/4bit ADPCM; digital audio data with sample rate up to 48kHz via I2S or SPI interface; fast digital recording with datarate up to 1Mbit/s; built-in message management; address-free recording; storage of prerecorded audio using high quality digital compression; simple index based commands for playback; preprogrammed macro scripts (voice macros) for device configuration, message sequence playbacks and recordings; and a variety of digital compression algorithms for recording and playback.
The ISD15000 is available in a 48-pin LQFP lead-free package, starting at US $3 in volume quantities.
Evaluation systems are also available, each providing an easy-to-use hardware board and a user-friendly software utility, Voice Prompt Editor (VPE) that allows the developers the ability to edit voice prompts, configure the ISD15000 and download the final voice prompts to the ISD15000 for emulations.
Samples are available now from local Winbond sales offices and its authorised representatives.
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