Decoded Audio Measurement Description; How Is A Decoded Audio (Daudio) Measurement Made; Trigger Source - Agilent Technologies 8960 10 Series Reference Manual

Decoded Audio Measurement Description

June 2, 1999

How is a decoded audio (DAUDIO) measurement made?

This measurement is also known as decoded audio or uplink speech level measurement. The DAUDIO
measurement tests the ability of the mobile station to encode an audio signal onto the uplink traffic channel.
1. The audio signal originates from the test set's AUDIO OUT connector. The audio signal is connected to the
mobile station (MS) by means of an audio frequency input connector, or acoustically through a speaker
placed near the microphone of the mobile station. See
the test set's audio generator.
2. The mobile station digitizes and encodes the audio signal that is transmitted on the uplink TCH.
3. The uplink TCH is decoded with a bit accurate GSM RPE-LTP decoder to yield a block of 13-bit PCM
samples within the DSP. As described in ETSI GSM 06.10.
NOTE The MS needs to be stimulated with a pulsed audio signal during a DAUDIO measurement. The
audio signal must be pulsed at a 10 Hz rate with 50% duty cycle. See
"AFGenerator:PULSe[:STATe]" on page
The decoded audio measurement returns the rms value, in percent of full scale, of the speech signal present on
the uplink (encoded) audio signal over a 100 ms (10 Hz) period of time.
The DAUDIO measurement performs an rms level measurement of a speech signal on the uplink TCH with
optional bandpass filtering. Speech data can be filtered using a tunable 100 Hz bandpass filter prior to
analysis. The center frequency of the 100 Hz bandpass filter may be tuned from 200 Hz to 3.6 kHz. Setting the
frequency will activate the filter.
The trigger source for a DAUDIO measurement is always set to Immediate.
The DAUDIO measurement, BER and Fast BER measurements are mutually exclusive. Whichever of these
measurements is activated last forces the other to become inactive.
Single or Multi-Measurements
The DAUDIO measurement can return single or averaged measurements defined by the multi-measurement
count. A single measurement (multi-measurement count off) returns an estimate of the rms value of the
decoded speech signal after removal of any dc component. The measurement units are in percent of full scale
(%FS), ranging from 0 to 100%. Values greater than 70.70% may only result from non-sinusoidal signals.
Multiple measurements (multi-measurement count >1) provide average, minimum, maximum, and standard
deviation results. An integrity indicator is returned for both multi-measurement states. None of the results
are affected by amplitude offset.

Trigger Source

DAUDIO measurement does not support any trigger source other than immediate.
"AFGenerator" on page 220
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