Automotive Audio Bus A2B Transceiver
Data Sheet
AD2421W/AD2422W/AD2425W
A2B BUS FEATURES
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Automotive Audio Bus (A2B®) provides a multichannel,
I2S/TDM link over distances of up to 15 m between nodes. It
embeds bidirectional synchronous data (for example digital
audio), clock, and synchronization signals onto a single differ-
ential wire pair. A2B supports a direct point to point connection
and allows multiple, daisy-chained nodes at different locations
to contribute or consume time division multiplexed channel
content. A2B is a single-master, multiple-slave system where the
transceiver chip at the host controller is the master. The master
generates clock, synchronization, and framing for all slave nodes.
The master A2B chip is programmable over a control bus (I2C)
for configuration and read back. An extension of this control
bus is embedded in the A2B data stream, which grants direct
access of registers and status information on slave transceivers
as well as I2C to I2C communication over distance.
Line topology
Single master, multiple slave
Up to 15 m between nodes and up to 40 m overall cable
length
Communication over distance
Synchronous data
Multichannel I2S/TDM to I2S/TDM
Clock synchronous, phase aligned in all nodes
Low latency slave to slave communication
Control and status information I2C to I2C
GPIO over distance
Phantom power or local power slave nodes
Configurable with SigmaStudio graphical software tool
Qualified for automotive applications
ADDITIONAL TRANSCEIVER FEATURES
Configurable as A2B bus master or slave (AD2425W)
I2C interface
Table 1. Product Comparison Guide
Feature
AD2421W AD2422W AD2425W
8-bit to 32-bit multichannel I2S/TDM interface
I2S/TDM/PDM programmable data rate
Up to 32 upstream and 32 downstream channels
PDM inputs for 4 high dynamic range microphones
Master capable
Functional TRX blocks
I2S/TDM support
No
No
Yes
A only
No
A + B
No
A + B
Yes
PDM microphone inputs 4 mics
4 mics
15 m
4 mics
15 m
APPLICATIONS
Maximum node to node 15 m
cable length
Automotive audio communication link
Active noise cancellation
Microphone arrays for hands free and in car communication
FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAM
IOVDD DVDD
PLLVDD
VOUT1 VIN VOUT2
ATRXVDD/BTRXVDD
2
SCL
SDA
IRQ/IO0
A B
BP
PLL
VREG1 VREG2
TRX B
BCM
BN
(Towards
2
I C
Last Slave)
ADR1/IO1/CLKOUT1
ADR2/IO2/CLKOUT2
SWP
SENSE
DIAGNOSTICS
®
BCLK
SYNC
DTX0/DTX1
DRX0/DRX1
AP
ACM
AN
2
A B
2
I S/TDM
PDM
TRX A
(Towards
Master)
IO7
VSS
VSSN
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