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- From: s35130w@kaira.hut.fi (Tom Mikael Ahola)
- Subject: Digital Audio Interfaces: S/PDIF, AES/EBU and Alesis ADAT!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.073615.20742@nntp.hut.fi>
- Summary: Info on Digital Audio Interfaces (Wanted)
- Keywords: S/PDIF, AES/EBU, ADAT, Digital Audio
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:36:15 GMT
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- Hello everybody!
-
- I'm planning to build some fancy digital audio equipment and
- would like to use the optical digital output from the Alesis
- ADAT. This output carries 8 audio channels on one optic fiber
- and is probably not standardized. I probably have to call
- Alesis for any info on the format used but I also would like to
- hear comments from anyone on the net who has info/experience
- about this interface. Could I perhaps use S/PDIF chips running
- at 8x speed to decode the format?
-
- I'm also interested in the S/PDIF and AES/EBU formats. I don't
- like to pay lots of $$$$$ to buy a thick book with a couple
- of useful sides with the formats explained - so I use the scope.
- This is what I discovered by monitoring the S/PDIF output with
- an o-scope:
-
- Sample rate: 44100 Hz
- Frames/sample: 2 (left frame, right frame)
- Bits/frame: 32 (64 bits per sample)
- Bit rate: 2 822 400 bits/sec
- Transmission coding: Bi-Phase Mark (Harvard-FM)
-
- Frame format:
-
- left frame: 0101 0000 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx ab0c
- right frame: 0110 0000 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx ab0c
-
- x = audio data bits, 16 bits/frame
- a = changes 1/0 in pause mode
- b = changes 1/0 always
- c = checksum bit (restores signal level to zero)
-
- The first four bits are obviously some kind of frame synchronization
- bits and are coded differently from the other (without bit clock?
- NRZ-FM). There seems to bee 8 extra (subcode) bits in a frame!
-
- I would like to know what the functions of bits a and b are. Has
- the b-bit something to do with SCMS?
-
- Mail me corrections and more info if you have it and I'll summarize
- here the complete format specs (or is this a FAQ?).
-
- Thank You!
-
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