Blue Wave Delivers Customizable Solution through Building Block Approach

Flexibility is key in today's system design process. To increase the level of flexibility in base station designs, Blue Wave Systems has released the ComStruct open systems architecture approach.

ComStruct is a modular approach to building base station designs. Through this approach, designers can build complete digital signal processor (DSP)-based systems from a library of hardware and software modules.

ComStruct is made up of three principal building blocks: the DSP and input/output (I/O) hardware, framework architecture for communication technologies (FACT) system management software, and application-specific DSP algorithms.

The DSP and I/O hardware include dedicated PCI and CompactPCI DSP boards. These boards feature Texas Instruments' (TI's) TM320C6000 series of fixed- and floating-point DSPs. In addition, the boards house an on-board crossbar switch that provides and ECTF H.100 standard telephony bus.

The FACT software is responsible for overseeing system control. This software package includes a library of application programming interfaces (APIs) that configure and control the DSP hardware. These APIs are pre-developed code routines that execute specific tasks, such as the allocation and configuration of resources within the system or the transfer of data between the host and the DSPs

Application-specific software modules complete the ComStruct system. These modules are optimized algorithms for specific applications such as voice compression, speech recognition, and voice over IP (VoIP).

For more information on ComStruct, contact Blue Wave at 972-277-4600 in the US and 44-1509-634-300 outside the US.