AD1937
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TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED (TDM) MODES
The serial ports of the AD1937 have several different TDM
serial data modes. Single-line TDM mode is the most com-
monly used configuration (see Figure 16 and Figure 17).
These figures show 8-channel configuration; other possible
options are 4- and 16-channel configurations. In Figure 16,
the eight on-chip DAC data slots are packed into one I
2
S
TDM stream. In this mode, both DBCLK and ABCLK are
256 f
S
. In Figure 17, the ADC serial port outputs one data
stream consisting of four on-chip ADCs followed by four
unused slots.
SLOT 1
LEFT 1
SLOT 2
RIGHT 1
SLOT 3
LEFT 2
SLOT 4
RIGHT 2
MSB MSB – 1 MSB – 2 DATA
BCLK
LRCLK
SLOT 5
LEFT 3
SLOT 6
RIGHT 3
SLOT 7
LEFT 4
SLOT 8
RIGHT 4
DLRCLK
DBCLK
DSDATA
256 BCLKs
32 BCLKs
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Figure 16. Single-Line TDM Mode 8-Channel DAC Configuration
SLOT 1
LEFT 1
SLOT 2
RIGHT 1
SLOT 3
LEFT 2
SLOT 4
RIGHT 2
MSB MSB – 1 MSB – 2 DATA
BCLK
LRCLK
SLOT 5 SLOT 6 SLOT 7 SLOT 8
ALRCLK
ABCLK
SDAT
256 BCLKs
32 BCLKs
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Figure 17. Single-Line TDM Mode 8-Channel ADC Configuration
The I/O pin functions of the serial ports are defined according
to the serial mode that is selected. For a detailed description of
the function of each pin in TDM and TDM/AUX modes, see
Table 18.
The AD1937 allows systems with more than eight DAC channels
to be easily configured by the use of an auxiliary serial data port.
The TDM/AUX mode 16-channel configuration is shown in
Figure 18. In this mode, the AUX channels are the last four
slots of the TDM data stream. These slots are extracted and
output to the AUX serial port. It should be noted that due to
the high DBCLK frequency, this mode is available only in the
48 kHz/44.1 kHz/32 kHz sample rates. An 8-channel DAC
configuration cannot be TDM/AUX because there are no
extra data slots for the AUX packets; this would be single-
line TDM mode.
The AD1937 also allows system configurations with more
than four ADC channels as shown in Figure 19 (using 8 ADCs)
and Figure 20 (using 16 ADCs). Due to the high ABCLK
frequency, this mode is available only in the 48 kHz/44.1 kHz/
32 kHz sample rates.
Combining the TDM/AUX ADC and DAC modes results in
a system configuration of 8 ADCs and 12 DACs. The system,
then consists of two external stereo ADCs, two external stereo
DACs, and one AD1937. This mode is shown in Figure 21
(combined TDM/AUX DAC and ADC modes).
In the TDM/AUX mode, the frame sync (ALRCLK) triggers
the TDM word by crossing the high frequency TDM BCLK
(ABCLK) to 0, similar to the single-line TDM modes (see
Figure 16 and Figure 17). The AUX LRCLK (DLRCLK) runs at
the much slower f
S
of the AUX port; the AUX BCLK (DBCLK)
runs at 64 × f
S
. This is shown in the TDM/AUX figures (see
Figure 18 to Figure 21).
Table 18. Pin Function Changes in TDM and TDM/AUX Modes
Mnemonic Stereo Modes TDM Modes TDM/AUX Modes
ASDATA1 ADC1 data out TDM ADC data out TDM data out
ASDATA2 ADC2 data out TDM ADC data in AUX DAC1 data out (to external DAC1)
DSDATA1 DAC1 data in TDM DAC data in
TDM data in
DSDATA2 DAC2 data in TDM DAC data out
AUX ADC1 data in (from external ADC1)
DSDATA3 DAC3 data in TDM DAC2 data in (dual-line mode)
AUX ADC2 data in (from external ADC2)
DSDATA4 DAC4 data in TDM DAC2 data out (dual-line mode)
AUX DAC2 data out (to external DAC2)
ALRCLK ADC LRCLK in/out TDM ADC frame sync in/out
TDM frame sync in/out
ABCLK ADC BCLK in/out TDM ADC BCLK in/out
TDM BCLK in/out
DLRCLK DAC LRCLK in/out TDM DAC frame sync in/out
AUX LRCLK in/out
DBCLK DAC BCLK in/out TDM DAC BCLK in/out AUX BCLK in/out