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CONTROL INTERFACE
WM9703
WOLFSON MICROELECTRONICS LTD
PD Rev 3.4 January 2001
15
A digital interface has been provided to control the WM9703 and transfer data to and from it. This
serial interface is compatible with the Intel AC
’
97.
The main control interface functions are:
Control of analogue gain and signal paths through the mixer
Bi-directional transfer of ADC and DAC words to and from AC
’
97 controller
Selection of powerdown modes
AC-LINK DIGITAL SERIAL INTERFACE PROTOCOL
The WM9703 incorporates a 5-pin digital serial interface that links it to the AC
’
97 controller. AC-link
is a bi-directional, fixed rate, serial PCM digital stream. It handles multiple input and output audio
streams, as well as control register accesses employing a time division multiplexed (TDM) scheme.
The AC-link architecture divides each audio frame into 12 outgoing and 12 incoming data streams,
each with 20-bit sample resolution. With a minimum required DAC and ADC resolution of 16-bits,
AC
’
97 may also be implemented with 18 or 20-bit DAC/ADC resolution, given the headroom that the
AC-link architecture provides. The WM9703 provides support for 18-bit operation.
SLOT
NUMBER
SYNC
SDATA_OUT
SDATA_IN
TAG PHASE
TAG
CMD
ADR
CMD
DATA
PCM
LEFT
PCM
RIGHT
RSRVD
PCM
LFE
RSRVD
RSRVD
TAG
STATUS
ADDR
STATUS
DATA
PCM
LEFT
PCM
RIGHT
RSRVD
RSRVD
RSRVD
RSRVD
RSRVD
RSRVD
RSRVD
RSRVD
DATA PHASE
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
PCM
CENTRE
PCM
L SURR
PCM
R SURR
RSRVD
PCM C
(n+1)
PCM R
(n+1)
PCM L
(n+1)
CODEC ID
SLOTREQ 3-12
Figure 12 AC
’
97 Standard Bi-directional Audio Frame
SYNC
BIT_CLK
SDATA_OUT
VALID
FRAME
SLOT(1)
SLOT(2)
SLOT(12)
’
0
’
(ID1)
(ID0)
19
0
19
0
19
0
19
0
TAG PHASE
DATA PHASE
20.8
μ
S (48kHz)
12.288MHz
81.4nS
END OF PREVIOUS
AUDIO FRAME
TIME SLOT
’
VALID
’
BITS
(
’
1
’
= TIME SLOT CONTAINS
VALID PCM DATA)
SLOT (1)
SLOT (2)
SLOT (3)
SLOT (12)
Figure 13 AC-link Audio Output Frame