Audio Key Converter

[Bradley Zweig]

Someof you have asked me how to interface our I2S audio converters to an MSP430 microcontroller. Michael Burns has written an application report that focuses on this subject.

Please find it here:

I am working on a design using a MSP430F5438 to analyse an audio stream from a AIC3254. In my case the CODEC is in master mode and generates all clock signal in the Left Justified Mode. I configured the MSP430 in 4-wire SPI mode. With STE (Slave Transmit/receive Enable) connected to the WCLK the interface only receives one channel. If you need both channels then you could take a second SPI interface connected to the same bus but with an inverted STE signal.So no for external components at all.

As mentionned in 'slaa449a.pdf' there is one slight problem that the stream is 16bit and SPI only supports 8bit. In my case I am filling up a larger buffer through DMA. If you fill the buffer from the beginning you will notice that you can't read them as signed integer (16bit) straight away. MSB(byte) and LSB(byte) are inverted (little endian/big endian). If you start filling the buffer from the end this issue is solved as well.

We are going to be doing the same thing, using the CODEC as a timing master. Could you please send me a little more details on how your code and hookup works? We cannot use any external hardware, and we're using the MSP430F5528 device.

Would it be possible to get some assistance directly to my programmer? His name is Layne Phillips, and his email address is LNPS...@aol.com. Please cc me on any email traffic so I can be in the loop.

Since only the direction from the codec to the MSP is needed, I want to use the codec as the timing master as jaiv suggested and use the WCLK as the MSP's slave select input. Only one channel can be captured this way but this is not a serious drawback for my application.

In case I need both channels, is it possible to use the WCLK to initialise the SPI transfer, thus avoiding the syncronisation problem that Howard mentioned, and then "latch" the SPI in "selected" mode so that the MSP keeps receiving words indefinetely using DMA? Maybe turn the WCLK off from the codec side after the reception starts so that the STE remains low?

I have seen that the codec's outpout word length is configurable to 16, 20, 24 or 32 bits. Does this mean that the resolution of each value is increased accordingly, or that for 32-bit word length two 16-bit values are send along with 32 dummy bits? I suspect that the former is the case, however the latter would be preferred for my case if the left and right values are sent in the first 32 bit clock cycles, when the WCLK is constantly LOW or HI (depending on polarity) so that they can be received as a single SPI frame.

I am still working on the interface between the TLV320AIC3256 and the MSP430 and have stumbled upon the following: The audio codec outputs I2S samples of 64bits, 32bits per channel. Using the TLV320AIC3256 eval board and configuring the word length to 16 bits per channel, the length of each sample is still 64 bits, which makes interfacing with the MSP430 more difficult. Is it possible to configure the codec to output 16bit per channel, left-justified I2S?

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This is how I normally do it:

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