GFX-One Guitar Processor.pptVIP

Capstone Fall 2005 GFX-One Guitar Processor Team Carpal Tunnel September 8, 2005 Team Members Mason Stone Henock Negassa Tony Sawyer Nael Cassier What is GFX-One? GFX-One is a digital audio effects processor. It is designed specifically for use with guitar, but can process any monaural analog audio input. Functional Block Diagram Digital Signal Processor Why use a DSP? Digital data is easier to manipulate Implementing effects can be done using algorithms and subroutines as opposed to sophisticated analog hardware DSP can be altered and maintained using software Implementing Audio Effects Flanger effect is present in a lot of guitar-driven music It is accomplished by adding a signal to a time-varying, phase-modulated version of itself Fixed Delay and Reverberation Reverberation and echo are very common in audio engineering Both can be synthesized in DSP using comb filters and re-circulating delay lines Other Effects and Features Parametric Equalization Gain manipulation Auto-Wah Phaser Noise-gating Decimation (Aliasing) Many other possibilities DSP Interface What We Need: 25 MHz Oscillator Flash Microcontroller 256 MB SDRAM FPGA I/O 25 MHz Oscillator Used to synchronize digital circuitry. With use of PLL, provides clock speed. Will be connected to FPGA, then distributed. Flash Microcontroller Contains instructions for DSP. Internal μcontroller programs chip automatically over HDD interface. Internal code can contain image for FPGA. SDRAM/FPGA Operate over system bus: 8 bits for Address 8 bits for Data Chip Enable Read/Write Enable Clock IRQ Input/Output DSP means Digital Signal Processor, so we need a digital input and output. A/D converter translates signal into DSP. D/A converter translates signal out of DSP. DSP has Multi-channel Audio Serial Ports (McASP) to accomplish this, but it can also be implemented using parallel interface. Mixed Signal Interface Signal from Analog amplifier is fed to A/D Converter. Converts input voltage from analog signal in to