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3.10 Output Crossbar Mixers

The TAS3103 has three serial output ports—SDOUT1, SDOUT2 and SDOUT3. Each serial output port is assigned

two processing nodes within the TAS3103. One of the two nodes sources the left stereo data sample and the other

node sources the right stereo data sample. Figure 3−33 shows the assignment of these internal nodes to the serial

output ports. Two cases are shown in Figure 3−33—discrete mode and TDM mode. The discrete mode connections

are straightforward, but the TDM connections are considerably more involved in order to support the different

one-chip and two-chip TDM modes (see the Input and Output Serial Port (SAP) section for more discussion on the

TDM modes).

The purpose of the output crossbar is to give each of the three monaural channels in the TAS3103 access to any of

the six internal processing nodes (U, V, W, X, Y, and Z) that supply data to the three serial output ports. This flexibility

in the routing of the monaural channel outputs to the serial output ports, coupled with the flexibility in the routing of

the serial input ports to the monaural channels, fully decouples the input data from the output data. A given process

flow and output data topology can be obtained from any ordering of data into the TAS3103.

Figure 3−34 shows the output crossbar mixer topology. Each monaural channel feeds six mixers. The six mixers, in

turn, feed the six output nodes U, V, W, X, Y, and Z. A given monaural channel can thus be connected to either the

left or right side of SDOUT1, SDOUT2 and SDOUT3.

The mixers, although capable of performing boost (gain) and cut (attenuation) on the outgoing audio, are typically

used to facilitate on / off switching (a 5.23 format coefficient value of 0x0800000 turns the mixer on and a coefficient

value of 0x0000000 turns the mixer off). The audio data streams at the input to these mixers include dither, and any

boost or cut in the audio at this point affects the dither levels as well.

Node r in Figure 3−34 provides a means of outputting a post-processed sum of the audio on channel 1 and channel

2. This capability could be used to generate a center audio component from L and R components being processed

on channels 1 and 2. This would allow channel 3 to be a sub-woofer channel. Node r could also be used to create

a subwoofer channel, assuming an active subwoofer with filtering capability is receiving the subwoofer output. This

option would then free channel 3 for center channel processing.

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