ETC SC-6X

SC-6X FAMILY
SPEECH AND MUSIC PROCESSORS
Whether you need your product to say a few words or talk for several minutes, Sensory’s SC-6x speech and
music processors can deliver a few seconds to several hours of speech.
Every Sensory speech product is made with your design in mind. Efficient technology allows you to cut costs and
size by using smaller and fewer devices. A complete range of development tools and software
helps you get your products to market faster.
POWERFUL TECHNOLOGY
The SC-6x product family introduces a new world of speech synthesis
opportunities. This family is built around a 12.32 million instructions per second
(MIPS) Digital Signal Processor (DSP) to enable advanced speech algorithms,
yielding speech quality never before obtained at such low data rates.
These DSPs provide three low-power modes, two timer interrupts, one DAC interrupt and
five general-purpose interrupts. These features increase battery life and speed of
response to button and keyboard presses.
Sensory SC-6x employs three processing methods - CX, MX, LPC - that produce natural sounding speech while
using a relatively small amount of memory. Your product’s quality will speak for itself.
If your product needs music, Sensory offers several choices, including simultaneous speech with high quality
polyphonic music.
A RANGE OF CHOICES
Not only can you choose the optimum combination of price and capacity, you can adopt any of these digital
storage alternatives: On-chip mask programmable ROM, External memory (SC-614 only).
TYPES OF SYNTHESIS
Memory Required per Minute of Speech (KB)
Data Rate Kbps
CX
synthesis is your solution for producing long durations of great speech and sound
effects at the lowest possible system cost. MX offers data rates as low as 1K bits-persecond, yielding high quality speech with minimal development effort.
MX synthesis provides optimal speech and sound effects. Its highly sophisticated analysis
can reproduce the subtle qualities of a broad range of character voices. CX offers up to six
choices of data rates to help you optimize speech quality and memory cost.
LPC is mathematically simpler than MX or CX, requiring less processing power but more
editing.
3.0~11.2
22.5~84.0
1.0~3.5
7.5~26.2
1.8
13.5
Music Synthesis
Sensory also provides a way to enhance your products with high quality music synthesis. Sensory’s music
synthesizer provides polyphonic music using standard Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files that have
been converted into compact bitstreams. This gives the ability to play up to 14 channels of music.
Music + Speech
The music synthesizer can also play polyphonic music simultaneously with speech (MX or CX), adding even
more excitement to your products.
Product Brief
(80-0213-C)
SC-6X FAMILY
SC-601
The SC-601 has a 1.5 Mb ROM to support up to 24
minutes of internally-stored MX speech or up to 8
minutes of CX speech.
SC-604
The SC-604 contains the same powerful core, ROM
and RAM as the other SC-6x devices, but has a
reduced I/O set and pin count which makes it the
most economical of the SC-6x family members.
SC-605
The SC-605 has a 2.36Mb (288KB) ROM to support
up to 37 minutes of internally-stored MX speech or
up to 12 minutes of CX speech. This device is a
perfect one-chip system solution, functioning as
master controller, speech processor, and data
memory.
SC-614
The SC-614 expands the capability of the SC-6x
family by incorporating 64 I/O pins for interfacing with
the outside world. It can also address up to 64Mb of
external memory, providing over 18 hours of speech
duration!
16-Bit
Microprocessor
10-Bit
DAC
1280-Bytes
RAM
TIMER 1
TIMER 2
PLLM
64/192/288-KBytes
ROM
COMPARATOR
16/32/64
I/O
SC-614 only
SC-6X BLOCK DIAGRAM
SC-604
SC-605
SC-601
64K
288K
192K
64K
10880
10880
10880
ROM (bytes)
RAM (bits) 10880
SC-614
I/O Pins (packaged)
16
32
32
64
I/O Pins (die)
16
32
32
64
Pin Count (package)
64
100
100
100
Pin Count (die)
36
53
53
85
Built-In DAC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Built-In Comparator
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Max Speech Duration
6.5 min
(1.0 Kbps internal ROM)
37 min
24 min 6.5 min *
Sensory SC-6x family of processors
* The SC-614 can be interfaced to external memory for longer
SC-691
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The SC-691 is a pre-programmed slave synthesizer
implemented on the SC-6x family line that accepts
commands and compressed speech data from other microprocessors or microcontrollers and converts it to
speech output. Since no SC-6x programming knowledge is needed, this is the simplest SC-6x family member to
develop with.
SPEECH SYNTHESIS DURATION FOR SC-6X DEVICES 1
Single-Chip Speech Duration (8 KHz Sampling Rate)
Speech Algorithm
MX
CX
Compression Rate (bps )
1000
2400
3000
3700
4500
SC-605
37min
15min
12min
9min 50sec
8min 5sec
SC-601
24min
10min
7min 45sec
6min 20sec
5min 10sec 3min 45sec
3min
2min 5sec
2,40 min
2 min
1,35min
1min 20sec
55sec
45sec
30sec
SC-604/614 6min 30sec
6200
7700
5min 50sec 4min 45sec
11200
3min 15sec
Additional Duration Available by Adding External Memory (8 KHz Sampling Rate)
1
4 Mb ROM or flash
1hr 9min
29min
23min
18min
15min
11min
9min
6min 10sec
8 Mb ROM or flash
2hr 19min
58min
46min
37min
31min
22min
18min
12min
16 Mb ROM or flash
4hr 39min
1hr 56min
1hr 33min
1hr 15min
1hr 2min
45min
36min
24min
64 Mb ROM or flash
9hr 19min
3hr 53min
3hr 6min
2hr 31min
2hr 4min
1hr 30min
1hr 12min
49min
These times are examples which assume a small (2Kw) control code, the exact speech duration depends on
the size of the control code.
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