Dialogics VFX41JCTLS
Dialogics VFX41JCTLS
Dialogics VFX41JCTLS
Intel® Dialogic®
VFX/41JCT-LS Four-Port
Analog Converged
Communications Board
The Intel® Dialogic® VFX/41JCT-LS is a
four-port analog converged communi-
cations board used for developing
global enterprise applications
including unified messaging,
interactive voice response (IVR), and
contact centers.
CT Bus connector increases the board’s capacity to interoperate with other CT Bus/SCbus compatible
boards.
Universal PCI edge-connector provides compatibility with 3.3 V and 5.0 V bus signals enabling
deployment in a wide variety of PCI chassis from popular manufacturers.
Configure multiple boards in a single chassis (PCI bus or mixed PCI/ISA bus) for easy and cost-effective
system expansion up to 32 analog ports.
Intel® Dialogic® firmware, downloadable signal and call processing firmware, provides field-proven
performance based on over four million installed ports with access to future feature enhancements.
PerfectDigit DTMF (touchtone) provides reliable detection during voice playback — lets callers type
ahead through menus.
A-law or µ-law voice coding at dynamically selectable data rates, 24 Kb/s to 64 Kb/s, selectable on a
channel-by- channel basis for optimal tradeoff between disk storage and voice quality.
International Caller ID capability via on-hook audio path. Supports Bellcore CLASS*, UK CLI, Japanese
Caller ID, and other international protocols.
The VFX/41JCT-LS supports voice, enhanced fax, and coding algorithms (such as GSM and G.726) are
software-based speech recognition processing in a sin- available for use in applications that support the
gle PCI slot, providing four analog telephone interface Voice Profile for Internet Mail (VPIM) standard.
circuits for direct connection to analog loop start lines.
Spring Ware firmware also provides reliable DTMF
The VFX/41JCT-LS board is ideal for developers detection, DTMF cut-through, and talk off/play off
building enterprise unified messaging and interactive suppression over a wide variety of telephone line
voice/fax response (IVR) applications for the global conditions.
market segment. It provides four telephone line
The Intel® Dialogic® global dial pulse detection
interface circuits for direct connection to analog loop
(global DPD) algorithm, available as a software option
start lines. Its dual-processor architecture, consisting of
for the VFX/41JCT-LS board, lets you use the board in
a digital signal processor (DSP) and a general-purpose
countries that have limited touchtone telephone service.
microprocessor, handles all telephony signaling and
The global DPD product can be optimized on a |
performs DTMF (touchtone) and audio/voice and fax
country-by-country basis to provide superior dial pulse
signal processing tasks.
detection.
Part of the Intel® Dialogic® PCI product family, the
With all these advanced features in a half-size PCI
VFX/41JCT-LS board conforms to the H.100 CT Bus
board footprint, the VFX/41JCT-LS board is ideal for
standard. The open architecture lets developers build
client or small server system development. The board
converged communications solutions using products
offers enhanced DSP power and memory capacity that
from multiple vendors. And since multiple
provide a base level of performance for today’s
VFX/41JCT-LS boards can be installed in a single PC
requirements as well as the head room for future
chassis, developers can build systems scaling up
application expansion via software-based technologies.
to 32 ports.
The VFX/41JCT-LS board features onboard DSP-based
Downloaded Spring Ware firmware algorithms,
fax, a rich set of fax features that lets developers add
executed by the onboard DSP, provide variable voice
fax functionality to their communications applications.
coding at 24 and 32 Kb/s Adaptive Differential Pulse
Code Modulation (ADPCM), and 48 and 64 Kb/s µ-law Intel voice and fax products offer a rich set of advanced
or A-law Pulse Code Modulation (PCM). Sampling rates features, including state-of-the-art DSP technology and
and coding methods are selectable on a channel-by- signal processing algorithms, for building the core of
channel basis. Applications may dynamically switch any converged communications system. With industry-
sampling rate and coding method to optimize data standard PCI bus expansion boards developers can
storage or voice quality as the need arises. Additional easily and cost effectively integrate Intel® Dialogic®
Fax Features
Supports API-selectable MH, MR, or MMR image compression for send and receive.
MMR image coding option now available; if selected, ECM (per ITU-T T.6) shall be used to detect, replace, and report defective
scan lines on both fax send and receive operations.
Supports sending of 7-bit ASCII text files via a host-based ASCII to TIFF/F fax conversion library function.
Applications
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Intel® Dialogic® VFX/41JCT-LS Four-Port Analog Converged Communications Board Datasheet
CT Bus/SCbus
Telephone VFX/41JCT-LS
Network 4
Voice
(analog loop
start lines)
Other CT Bus/SCbus
Products
PC
Figure 1: VFX/41JCT-LS Typical Configuration
MSI/SC
VFX/41JCT-LS
Network Voice ISA
PCI
Bridge
Figure 2: Mixed PCI/ISA Configuration Example
voice and fax products into exactly the type of system The VFX/41JCT-LS board can operate within a mixed
they require, with superior performance. chassis containing Intel PCI and ISA products. The
forward-looking design of the board conforms to the
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Datasheet Intel® Dialogic® VFX/41JCT-LS Four-Port Analog Converged Communications Board
Loop Start
Interface
C Quad T
T Codec 1
Time Slot Switching Matrix
B Loop Start E
U Interface 1
S
I
CT612 Local Local N
Interface Interface T
E
Loop Start R
Interface F
CT Bus Interface A
C
E
Loop Start S
Interface
Motorola High
56303 Speed
DSP SRAM Loop Start
Interfaces
Voice Processing
PCI ASIC
Host Bus
Interface
logical addressing resource management eliminates faster system response time, reduces host PC
the need to keep track of physical resource addresses processing demands, processes DTMF and telephony
such as time slots and board numbers. signaling, and frees the DSP to perform signal
processing on the incoming call.
Functional Description Each of four analog loop start telephone line interfaces
The VFX/41JCT-LS board uses a dual-processor archi- on the VFX/41JCT-LS board receives analog voice, fax,
tecture that combines the signal processing capabili- and telephony signaling information from the telephone
ties of a DSP with the decision-making and data move- network (see block diagram). Each telephone line
ment functionality of a general-purpose 80186 control interface uses reliable, solid-state hook switches (no
microprocessor. This dual-processor approach off- mechanical contacts) and FCC-part 68 class B ring
loads many low-level decision-making tasks from the detection circuitry. This FCC-approved ring detector is
host computer and thus enables easier development of less susceptible to spurious rings created by random
more powerful applications. This architecture handles voltage fluctuations on the network. Each interface also
real-time events, manages data flow to the host PC for incorporates circuitry that protects against high-voltage
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spikes and adverse network conditions and lets the most difficult telephony environments.
applications go off-hook any time during ring cadence
When recording speech, the DSP can use different
without damaging the board.
digitizing rates from 24 to 64 Kb/s as selected by the
Inbound telephony signaling (ring detection, application for the best speech quality and most
loop-current detection, and Caller ID information) and efficient storage. The digitizing rate is selected on a
fax signals are detected by the line interface and channel-by-channel basis and can be changed each
routed via a control bus to the control processor. The time a record or play function is initiated. The DSP
control processor responds to these signals, informs processed speech is transmitted via the control
the application of telephony signaling status, and processor to the host PC for disk storage. When
instructs the line interface to transmit outbound replaying a stored file, the processor retrieves the voice
signaling (on-hook/off-hook) to the telephone network. information from the host PC and passes it to the DSP,
which converts the file into digitized voice. The DSP
The audio voice (and the fax) signal from the network is
sends digitized voice and appropriate signaling
bandpass filtered and conditioned by the line interface
responses to the CODEC to be converted into analog
and then applied to a codec (COder/DECoder) circuit.
format for transmission to the telephone network.
The codec filters, samples, and digitizes the inbound
analog audio/fax signal and passes this signal to a Signaling data (on-/off-hook, ringing, Caller ID, etc.) is
Motorola* 56303 DSP. passed to the onboard control processor and
transmitted to the application via a dual-port shared
Based on Spring Ware firmware loaded in DSP RAM,
RAM and the host PCI bus.
the DSP performs the following signal analysis and
operations on this incoming data: When using the VFX/41JCT-LS board and the CT Bus,
■ Automatic gain control (AGC) to compensate for digital voice and signaling information from a network
variations in the level of the incoming audio signal board or other resource enter the board via the H.100
■ Applies an ADPCM or PCM algorithm to compress connector and CT Bus interface. A CT612 chip
the digitized voice and save disk storage space manages these signals and acts as the traffic
■ Detects the presence of tones — DTMF, MF, or an coordinator and matrix switch to buffer the high-speed
application-defined single or dual tone digital data from the bus until the data for each channel
can be transmitted to the DSP.
■ Silence detection to determine whether the line is
quiet and the caller is not responding The CT612 chip transmits several lower speed data
streams over the CT Bus high-speed channel. The bus
For outbound data, the DSP performs the following
configuration is set when the firmware is downloaded
operations:
at system initialization. This chip incorporates matrix
■ Expands stored, compressed audio data for play-
switching capabilities. Under control of the onboard
back
control processor, the CT612 chip can connect any call
■ Adjusts the volume and rate of speed of playback
being processed to any of the four analog lines or to
upon application or user request
any of the 4096 CT Bus time slots. This enables the
■ Generates tones — DTMF, MF, or any application- application to switch calls to or from other resources,
defined general-purpose tone such as facsimile or speech recognition, as they are
The dual-processor combination also performs the needed, or to reroute calls.
following outbound dialing and call progress monitoring The onboard control processor controls all operations
■ Transmits an off-hook signal to the telephone network
of the VFX/41JCT-LS board via a local bus and inter-
■ Dials out (places an outbound call) prets and executes commands from the host PC. The
■ Monitors and reports results: line busy or congested; processor handles real-time events, manages data flow
operator intercept; ring, no answer; or if the call is to the host PC to provide faster system response time,
answered, whether answered by a person, an reduces PC host processing demands, processes
answering machine, a facsimile machine or a modem DTMF and telephony signaling before passing them to
The VFX/41JCT-LS board also supports optional Global the application, and frees the DSP to perform signal
DPD software that recognizes dial pulse digits even in processing.
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Datasheet Intel® Dialogic® VFX/41JCT-LS Four-Port Analog Converged Communications Board
Communications between a processor and the host PC firmware gives the board all of its intelligence and
is via the Shared RAM that acts as an input/output enables easy feature enhancement and upgrades.
buffer and thus increases the efficiency of disk file
With the rotary switch on the VFX/41JCT-LS board set
transfers. This RAM interfaces to the host PC via the
to 0, the board is Plug and Play enabled. Configuration
PCI bus. All operations are interrupt-driven to meet the
is handled exclusively by software. Alternatively, devel-
demands of real-time systems. When the system is ini-
opers can set the rotary switch to another value to
tialized, Spring Ware firmware is downloaded from the
manually control board location for ease of cabling or
host PC to the onboard code/data RAM and DSP RAM
backwards compatibility with Intel board locator tech-
to control all board operations. This downloadable
nology (BLT) installation.
Technical Specifications**
Number of ports 4
Max. boards/system 8
Analog network interface Onboard loop-start interface circuits
Control processor 80C186 @ 34.8 MHz
Digital signal processor Motorola* DSP56303 @100 MHz, with 128Kx24 private
SRAM
Host Interface
Bus compatibility PCI (complies with PCISIG Bus Specification, Rev. 2.1)
Bus speed 33 MHz maximum
Bus mode Target mode operation only
Shared memory 32 KB page
I/O ports None
Telephone Interface
Trunk type Loop start
Loop current range 20 mA to 120 mA
Impedance 600 Ohm nominal
Ring detection 15 Vrms min., 13 Hz to 68 Hz, (configurable by parameter†)
Echo return loss Configurable by software parameter
Crosstalk coupling Less than -70 dB at 1 KHz channel to channel
Receive signal/noise ratio 70 dB referenced to -15 dBm
Frequency response 200 Hz to 3400 Hz ±3 dB (transmit and receive)
Connectors Four RJ-11 type
Environmental Requirements
+5 VDC 750 mA max.
+12 VDC 200 mA max.
–12 VDC 100 mA max.
Operating temperature 0°C to +50°C
Storage temperature –20°C to +70°C
Humidity 8% to 80% non-condensing
Form factor Universal slot (5 V or 3.3 V) PCI long card, 12.3 in. long
(without edge retainer) or 13.3 in. long (with edge retainer),
0.79 in. wide (total envelope), 3.87 in. high (excluding edge
connector)
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Intel® Dialogic® VFX/41JCT-LS Four-Port Analog Converged Communications Board Datasheet
Audio Signal
Receive range -50 dBm to -13 dBm (nominal), for average speech signals‡ configurable
by parameter†
Automatic gain control Application can enable/disable. Above –18 dBm results in full-scale
recording, configurable by parameter.†
Silence detection –38 dBm nominal, software adjustable†
Transmit level (weighted average) –9 dBm nominal, configurable by parameter†
Transmit volume control 40 dB adjustment range, with application-definable increments
Frequency Response
24 Kb/s 300 Hz to 2600 Hz ±3 dB
32 Kb/s 300 Hz to 3400 Hz ±3 dB
48 Kb/s 300 Hz to 2600 Hz ±3 dB
64 Kb/s 300 Hz to 3400 Hz ±3 dB
Audio Digitizing
13 Kb/s GSM @ 8 kHz sampling
24 Kb/s ADPCM @ 6 kHz sampling
32 Kb/s ADPCM @ 8 kHz sampling
32 Kb/s G.726 @ 8 kHz sampling
48 Kb/s µ-law PCM @ 6 kHz sampling
64 Kb/s µ-law PCM @ 8 kHz sampling
Digitization selection Selectable by application on function call-by-call basis
Playback speed control Pitch controlled
Available for 24 and 32 Kb/s data rates
Adjustment range: ±50%
Adjustable through application or programmable DTMF control
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Datasheet Intel® Dialogic® VFX/41JCT-LS Four-Port Analog Converged Communications Board
MF Signaling
MF digits 0 to 9, KP, ST, ST1, ST2, ST3 per Bellcore LSSGR Sec 6, TR-NWT-000506
and CCITT Q.321
Transmit level Complies with Bellcore LSSGR Sec 6, TR-NWT-000506
Signaling mechanism Complies with Bellcore LSSGR Sec 6, TR-NWT-000506
Dynamic range for detection –25 dBm to +3 dBm per tone
Acceptable twist 6 dB
Acceptable freq. variation Less than ±1 Hz
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Tone Dialing
DTMF digits 0 to 9, *, #, A, B, C, D per Bellcore LSSGR Sec 6, TR-NWT-000506
MF digits 0 to 9, KP, ST, ST1, ST2, ST3
Frequency variation Less than ±1 Hz
Rate 10 digits/s, configurable by parameter†
Level –4 dBm0 per tone, nominal, configurable by parameter†
Pulse Dialing
10 digits 0 to 9
Pulsing rate 10 pulses/s, nominal, configurable by parameter†
20 pulses/s for Japan, configurable by parameter†
Break ratio 60% nominal, configurable by parameter†
†
Analog levels: 0 dBm0 corresponds to a level of +3 dBm at tip-ring analog point. Values vary depending on country requirements; contact your account manager.
‡
Average speech mandates +16 dB peaks above average and preserves -13 dB valleys below average.
Additional Components
■ Multidrop CT Bus cables (CBLCTB68C3DROP, CBLCTB68C4DROP, CBLCTB68C8DROP, CBLCTB68C12DROP,
CBLCTB68C16DROP)
■ CT Bus/SCbus adapter (CTBUSTOSCBUSADP)
■ SCbus terminator kits (1SCBUS1TERMKIT, 2SCBUS1TERMKIT, 3SCBUS1TERMKIT)
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