SPRUHM9H October 2014 – May 2024 TMS320F28075 , TMS320F28075-Q1 , TMS320F28076
Companding (COMpressing and exPANDing) hardware allows compression and expansion of data in either μ-law or A-law format. The companding standard employed in the United States and Japan is μ-law. The European companding standard is referred to as A-law. The specifications for μ-law and A-law log PCM are part of the CCITT G.711 recommendation.
A-law and μ-law allow 13 bits and 14 bits of dynamic range, respectively. Any values outside this range are set to the most positive or most negative value. Thus, for companding to work best, the data transferred to and from the McBSP via the CPU or DMA controller must be at least 16 bits wide.
The μ-law and A-law formats both encode data into 8-bit code words. Companded data is always 8 bits wide; the appropriate word length bits (RWDLEN1, RWDLEN2, XWDLEN1, XWDLEN2) must therefore be set to 0, indicating an 8-bit wide serial data stream. If companding is enabled and either of the frame phases does not have an 8-bit word length, companding continues as if the word length is 8 bits.
Figure 20-3 illustrates the companding processes. When companding is chosen for the transmitter, compression occurs during the process of copying data from DXR1 to XSR1. The transmit data is encoded according to the specified companding law (A-law or μ-law). When companding is chosen for the receiver, expansion occurs during the process of copying data from RBR1 to DRR1. The receive data is decoded to twos complement format.