REFERENCE DESIGNS

Our reference designs provide application specific solutions that are very close to how you might want to use xCORE devices in your own products. Each reference design includes a hardware kit and all the IP required, delivering the fastest time to market solution. Source code for all reference designs is available, allowing you to customize the solution to meet your precise requirements.

Many customers have used our USB Audio 2.0 Reference Design to adapt quickly to the fast pace of adoption of this technology on the desktop. More recently, we have helped drive adoption of Ethernet AVB with a proven low-cost end-point solution.

Available reference designs include:

USB Audio 2.0

A USB Audio 2.0 solution based on the XS1-L8-64 device that provides high quality digital audio connectivity for pro-audio and consumer applications. The design provides certified USB 2.0 High Speed device and Audio Class 2.0 device class implementations with configurable digital audio interfaces, peripherals and the ability to integrate audio processing.

The board supports 2 channels input and 2 channels output, each via I2S.

USB Audio 2.0 Multichannel

A USB Audio 2.0 This USB Audio solution based on the XS1-L16-128 device. The design provides certified USB 2.0 High Speed device and Audio Class 2.0 device class implementations with configurable digital audio interfaces, peripherals and the ability to integrate audio processing.

The board offers 6 analog input channels and 8 analog outputs, as well as digital I/O connectivity. The software framework enables USB Audio products with up to 40 audio channels.

USB Audio 2.0 DJ Kit

USB Audio solution based on the XS1-U8 device, providing high quality digital audio connectivity for pro-audio and consumer applications. The design provides certified USB 2.0 High Speed device and Audio Class 2.0 device class implementations with configurable digital audio interfaces, peripherals and the ability to integrate audio processing.

The board supports 4 input channels and 4 output channels via I2S, and MIDI I/O too.

USB Audio Interface for iPad

The USB Audio Interface for iPad simplifies the design of products requiring USB connectivity to audio and control interfaces for Mac, PC and iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. Using High Speed USB 2.0, it allows high quality digital audio, MIDI and control data to be transferred between the host Mac, PC or iOS device and the XMOS interface.

Device Dock for iPod/iPhone/iPad

Based around the XS1-L8-64 device, the dock reference design provides a full speed USB host connection to the Apple portable audio device, provides PCM digital audio extraction at 32, 44.1, 48 kHz.

AVB Audio Endpoint Kit

The XMOS AVB endpoint is an Ethernet Audio Video Bridging endpoint solution consisting of the flexible XMOS implementation of AVB audio and a low-cost board supporting up to 8 duplex channels of audio.