Automotive Audio Bus A2B Transceiver
AD2420(W)/AD2426(W)/AD2427(W)/AD2428(W)/AD2429(W)
A2B BUS FEATURES
A2B TRANSCEIVER FEATURES
Line topology
Single master, multiple slave
Configurable A2B bus master or slave operation
I2C interface
Up to 15 m between nodes and up to 40 m overall cable
length (see Table 9)
Communication over distance
Synchronous data
Multichannel I2S/TDM to I2S/TDM
8-bit to 32-bit multichannel I2S/TDM interface
Programmable I2S/TDM data rate
Up to 32 upstream and 32 downstream channels
PDM interface
Programmable PDM clock rate
Synchronous clock, phase aligned in all nodes
Low latency slave to slave communication
Control and status information I2C to I2C
GPIO and interrupt
Bus power or local power slave nodes
Configurable with SigmaStudio graphical software tool
AEC-Q100 qualified for automotive applications
Up to 4 high dynamic range microphone inputs
Simultaneous reception of I2S data with up to 4 PDM
microphones
Unique ID register for each transceiver
Crossover or straight-through cabling
Programmable settings to optimize EMC performance
APPLICATIONS
Audio communication link
Microphone arrays
Beamforming
Hands free and in car communication
Active and road noise cancellation
Audio/video conferencing systems
IOVDD
DVDD
PLLVDD
VOUT1 VIN
VOUT2
BTRXVDD
2
SCL
SDA
IRQ/IO0
ADR1/IO1
ADR2/IO2
A B
BP
BCM
BN
PLL
VREG1
VREG2
TRX B
(Towards
Last Slave)
2
I C
SWP
SENSE
DIAGNOSTICS
DTX0/IO3
DTX1/IO4
DRX0/IO5
DRX1/IO6
2
AP
ACM
AN
A B
2
I S/TDM
PDM
TRX A
(Towards
Master)
PDMCLK/IO7
BCLK SYNC
VSSN
VSS
ATRXVDD
Figure 1. Functional Block Diagram
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