ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATIONS
OUTLINE NEWTON

The processor shall be based on FPGA technology, it shall have 216 x 216 I/O channels available simultaneously: up to 64 I/O Dante channels, up to 64 I/O coaxial MADI, up to 64 I/O optical MADI, 16 I/O AES3 and up to 8 I/O analog channels.
The device shall provide an advanced failover strategy between 14 clock sources: WordClock, Video Sync, 8 independent AES3, Dante, MADI optical, MADI coaxial and an Internal clock generator.
It shall be able to process 96 kHz audio with a resolution of up to 64 bits (AES3 from 32 kHz to 192 kHz, Dante 48 kHz or 96 kHz, MADI from 44.1 kHz to 96 kHz) and it shall provide the possibility to downsampling at 48 kHz per-source output.
The unit shall include 16 processed input channels with 16 asynchronous sample-rate converters (SNR -140 dB); advanced failover  policy with 4 redundancy levels and with glitch-free switchover, manual reset input to the highest available priority , gain and delay trimmers; gain; mute; polarity; up to 1 second of delay and 2 layers with 8 bands of parametric EQ each one.
The processor shall provide a selectable sensitivity (+20 dBu or +26 dBu) of analog input and ground isolation of analog inputs and outputs.
It shall include 2 WordClock out on BNC with advanced failover policies (independent from master clock), selectable from any of the 14 available clock sources.
The system shall include 16 processed output channels with gain; up to 1 second of delay; polarity; 4 layers of 8 bands each of WFIR technology filters (patent pending); 1 layer of 8 bands parametric EQ; 1 layer of all-pass filters. Each processed output channel shall be able to be assigned to 4 groups. The channel strip of groups shall include gain; up to 1 second of delay; polarity and 4 layers of 8 bands each of WFIR technology filters.
The operator must have the possibility to create and use 8 permanent/temporary links for input channels and 8 permanent/temporary links for output channels.
The device shall have an 8 in x 2 out (L&R) analog auxiliary mixer.
It shall provide full 18 x 16 summing matrix where any input or auxiliary channel can be summed with any other input or auxiliary channel and routed to any output.
The meter shall indicate signal presence, RMS, peak, peak hold, overload and the front panel processing LEDS shall be able to set on RMS or peak.
The front panel shall have also a home button to be used for network troubleshooting and metering mode selection.
Pick-off point to output connectors shall be available from Input patch (after ASRC), auxiliary mixer, Input DSP, Matrix Mixer and Output DSP. Furthermore, there shall be the possibility to directly rout any analog input source to any hardware output protocol.
All the output channels shall have synchronous sample rate converters with SNR of -144 dB and latency up to 0.24 ms, except the analog channels (so 208 SSRC).
The unit shall have a Gigabit ethernet Base-T switch with 4 RJ-45 ports and users shall be able to select 3 modes: full switched, switched and redundant.
The device shall have a dual redundant power supply 3-pin IEC, able to operate from 100 V to 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz.
The rear panel shall provide four female DB-25 Tascam standard for AES3 I/O and analog I/O, a duplex multi-mode LC for MADI optical I/O, six BNC (75 Ω) for MADI coaxial, wordclock I/O and Video sync, RJ 45 on 4-ports switch for Dante, a female micro USB OTG, a female DB9 for GPIO and a male DB9 for RS485. 
The device shall be 1 Rack Unit standard: W 19-inch (483 mm), H 1.75-inch (44 mm), D 11.9-inch (302 mm) and the weight shall be 9.7 lb (4.4 kg).   
The operating range shall be from 0°C to +45°C; while the storage range shall be <-40°C or >+75°C. The operating altitude shall be up to 2000 m (6560 ft).