Audio Processors provide flexible signal routing.
Press Release Summary:
Suited for automotive head units and amps that require signal routing and processing from multiple audio sources, ADAU1442/ADAU1445/ADAU1446 SigmaDSP® products include up to 8 stereo asynchronous sample rate converters. Flexible Audio Routing Matrix (FARM) solution lets system designers compensate for real world limitations of speakers, amplifiers, and listening environments, resulting in audio quality improvement through speaker equalization, multi-band compression, and limiting.
Original Press Release:
Analog Devices' SigmaDSP Audio Processors Provide Flexible Signal Routing for Automotive Sound Systems
- ADAU144x SigmaDSP audio processor family handles multiple input signals to ease design constraints and increase processing speed in today's multi-function automotive audio designs.
NORWOOD, Mass.-- Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications, today introduced an extension to its SigmaDSP® audio processor family for automotive head units and amplifiers that require signal routing and processing from multiple audio sources. With an industry-leading audio instruction set, the ADAU1442, ADAU1445 and ADAU1446 SigmaDSP audio processors incorporate a Flexible Audio Routing Matrix (FARM), which allows automotive audio sub-system engineers to significantly increase the processing speed and reduce the complexity of audio signal routing and clocking issues associated with CD changers, MP3 and DVD players, satellite radios, GPS navigation systems and other asynchronous audio sources. Using the FARM solution, system designers can quickly compensate for the real world limitations of speakers, amplifiers and listening environments, resulting in a dramatic audio quality improvement through speaker equalization, multi-band compression, limiting, and third-party-branded algorithms.
The new SigmaDSP audio processors include up to eight stereo asynchronous sample rate converters, an S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) transceiver and serial inputs/outputs that support I2S (inter-IC sound) and TDM (time-division multiplexed) formats. Any of these inputs can be routed to the SigmaDSP core or any of the outputs for maximum system flexibility. The SigmaDSP core of the new audio processor family features full 28-bit processing (56-bit in double precision mode), synchronous parameter loading for ensuring filter stability, and 100 percent code efficiency when used in conjunction with ADI's SigmaStudio(TM) graphical development environment, which includes audio processing blocks such as FIR and IIR filters, dynamics processors, mixers, low-level DSP functions, and third-party algorithms.
Availability and Pricing
Product Availability Temperature Range Pricing Per 1,000 Packaging
ADAU1442 December 2008 -40°C to +105°C $9.96 100-lead QFP
ADAU1445 December 2008 -40°C to +105°C $9.31 100-lead QFP
ADAU1446 November 2008 -40°C to +105°C $8.28 100-lead QFP
For more information on the ADAU144x SigmaDSP audio processors, visit analog.com/PR/ADAU1442, www.analog.com/PR/ADAU1445, http://www.analog.com/PR/ADAU1446
About Analog Devices
Innovation, performance, and excellence are the cultural pillars on which Analog Devices has built one of the longest standing, highest growth companies within the technology sector. Acknowledged industry-wide as the world leader in data conversion and signal conditioning technology, Analog Devices serves over 60,000 customers, representing virtually all types of electronic equipment. Celebrating over 40 years as a leading global manufacturer of high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications, Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, with design and manufacturing facilities throughout the world. Analog Devices' common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "ADI" and is included in the S&P 500 Index.
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