Preliminary

3.3Digital Audio Input/Ouput

For digital audio I/O, the system supports three stereo inputs and two stereo outputs as shown in Table 1. All inputs and outputs are synchronous with shared clock and synch pins. The digital audio input/output is supported only in I2C Slave Mode of the MX5000A.

Table 1. Digital Audio Input/Output Connections

 

PIN NUMBER

GPIO

 

 

 

Clock

1

0

 

 

 

 

Synch

2

1

 

 

 

 

Digital Input0

3

2

 

 

 

 

Digital Input1

4

3

 

 

 

 

Digital Input2

5

4

 

 

 

 

Digital Output0

8

5

 

 

 

 

Digital Output1

9

6

 

 

 

 

CONNECTION ON

THE BOARD

Pin 2 of J13

Pin 2 of J12

Pin 2 of J11

Pin 2 of J10

Pin 2 of J8

Pin 2 of J9

Pin 2 of J6

*pin 2 of Ji (were i=6, 5,...13) located on the edge of the board. See Figure 6.

Please note: There are pull-up resistors connected to those pins. You may decide to leave them as is or to disconnect them, depending on your system.

The list of those resistors:

 

Pull-up to VIO

GPIO

 

 

resistor

 

 

 

 

Clock

R10

0

Pin 2 of J13

 

 

 

 

 

Synch

R11

1

Pin 2 of J12

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Input0

R12

2

Pin 2 of J11

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Input1

R13

3

Pin 2 of J10

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Input2

R14

4

Pin 2 of J8

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Output0

R15

5

Pin 2 of J9

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Output1

R16

6

Pin 2 of J6

 

 

 

 

 

MX5000A Development System

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Waves MX5000A system manual Digital Audio Input/Ouput, Digital Audio Input/Output Connections

MX5000A specifications

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